Fish and bird, the music series that dances out of line.

07.11.24 AFRO GARAGE

Christoph Baumann: Piano

Jacques Siron: Bass

Dieter Ulrich: Drums

What sounds as if it is all of a piece, fully composed, fixed and well rehearsed, is something that the three gentlemen create anew every concert evening: they build their pieces ad hoc from individual, spontaneously found fragments, which they put together spontaneously and at lightning speed like small pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. In this way, an adventurous musical structure is created anew each time from the most disparate individual parts. In short: improvisation to the power of two, a game on a high wire. A highly interlocking music in which piano, bass and drums mesh like cogwheels.

Listen in: https://www.siron.name/aaMP3/AFROegy_01.mp3

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5.12.24 Philipp Schlotter/Omar Fra/Adrian Böckli

"Expanding the possibilities of improvisation with styles from outside the genre: Philipp Schlotter (keys/fx), Omar Fra (git/fx) and Adrian Böckli (drums/fx)

play absolutely in the moment and combine electronica, jazz, hyperpop, doom, drone, ambient and heavy metal into an experimental hotpot.

This means volume and attentiveness, droning and sensitivity, speed and light.

A musical no man's land between departure and arrival."

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23.01.25 Turanose

Sean Noonan: drums, composition, spoken word

Lino Blöchlinger: alto and bass sax, flute

Norbert Bürger: electric guitar

"Turanose" emerges as a sonic painting, interwoven with elements of new music, free improvisation and rhythmic narrative. Sean Noonan's distinctive identity as a "rhythmic storyteller" blurs the boundaries between percussion and narrative, offering a fresh perspective in today's musical landscape. Influenced by the polytemporal innovations of Conlon Nancarrow, Frank Zappa and Milford Graves, their compositions break through conventional norms and roam through realms of temporal and spatial abstraction.

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https://linobloechlinger.bandcamp.com/album/turanose

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13.03.25 Sphaera Trio

Leo Marcionetti (g)

Hannes Wittwer (dr)

Fortunat Häfliger (tp)

With its unusual and transparent instrumentation, SPHAERA III (pronounced sfɛːra triːo) explores the field of tension between the two hemispheres of its own sound cosmos: lyrical, floating music full of rich harmonies and great melodic dramaturgy collides with a sometimes dark and rugged world of stirring sounds and multi-layered structures. The bassless trio around the sensitive composer and drummer Hannes Wittwer explores this scenario with both delicate poetry and uncompromising urgency and power.

Only the confrontation of the two supposedly antagonistic hemispheres allows their boundaries to dissolve and merge into the sphere that gives them their name.

merge into the eponymous sphere. Contemporary jazz on the path to complex atmospheric images, with borrowings from free improvisation and new music.

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08.05.25. Saadet Türkoz & Pierre Favre

"Singer Saadet Türköz and drummer Pierre Favre let their experience flow into their music. Both are greats in their own field, on the one hand in jazz and improvised music, on the other in folk-avant-garde sounds. You can look forward to this courageous journey".

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