A New York-born trio of European free improvisers, bassist Pascal Niggenkemper, clarinetist Joachim Badenhorst, and viola player Frank Loriot present a unique orchestration that blends contemporary compositional forms with free improvisation in sublime ways.
In Stock
Quantity in Basket: None
Log In to use our Wish List
Shipping Weight: 3.00 units
EU & UK Customers:
Discogs.com can handle your VAT payments
So please order through Discogs
Sample The Album:
Joachim Badenhorst-bass clarinet, clarinet, tenor sax
Frank Loriot-viola
Pascal Niggenkemper-doublebass
Click an artist name above to see in-stock items for that artist.
UPC: 56509063103052
Label: Clean Feed
Catalog ID: CF305
Squidco Product Code: 19305
Format: CD
Condition: Sale (New)
Released: 2014
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardstock Gatefold Sleeve
Recorded at the Loft, in Cologne, Germany, on May 31st, 2012, by Christian Heck.
"After the success of their debut recording (Jazz Magazine gave "Fremdenzimmer" a Choc award, for instance) and extensive touring ('CONCERT OF THE YEAR 2012' in Jazzman by D. Cristol), Baloni is back for more slow boiling, chamber jazz-like, surrealistic soundscapes.
Puzzled? Well, there's much: this is a New York-born trio, but the musicians gathered are from Europe. Joachim Badenhorst (check him with Han Bennink's Trio, Tony Malaby's Novela and Thomas Heberer's Carino), Frantz Loriot (partnerships with Joelle Léandre, Barre Phillips and David S. Ware, among others) and Pascal Niggenkemper (you heard him with Gerald Cleaver, Frank Gratkowski, Tyshawn Sorey and Simon Nabatov) play a music with obvious European roots (yes, the classical and contemporary influences are self-evident), but they do it the Big Apple way.
This means there's in "Belleke" an elegancy in the scores reminiscent of, let's say, someone like Erik Satie and the Impressionist composers, but the drive, the improvisational focus, the unquietness are distinctive of the American creative jazz. Imagine the minutes before a storm: what you hear is that dark, and that menacing."- Clean Feed
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Joachim Badenhorst "Joachim Badenhorst (°1981 Antwerp) has been active in the experimental and improvised music scene in Europe and abroad for the past 15 years. Following his master degree in jazz studies at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, he has since divided his time between Belgium and cities in the US and Europe, collaborating and recording with jazz and experimental music ensembles and artists, such as Han Bennink, Tony Malaby and Noël Akchoté while incessantly exploring the visceral elements of sound. His output ranges from solo improvisation to leading large formations, such as his own Carate Urio Orchestra. Badenhorst is artistically interested in integrating ideas from various different art medias into his musical compositions. He also takes deep interest in revealing the inherent relation between contemporary and traditional musics, having collaborated with traditional musicians from Turkey and Japan, and toured in China with reinterpreted traditional Chinese music. In recent years, Badenhorst is contemplating the evanescent site specificity of sound as well as the relation between space and sound. In recent years, his work has taken a deeper focus on composition, namely that of computerbased composition and processing. Through continual research and experiment, he delves into a reimagination of the boundaries between improvisation and composition, of abstract sound explorations and harmonic passage, and continues to attempt at a personal aesthetic language that interact with spaces and engage with different audiences. Badenhorst appears on over 50 cd's on over 10 record labels. In 2012, he launched his own label KLEIN, as a creative platform to initiate collaborations, experiment and play with unconventional design, and as an outlet for fringe musical projects. Since 2010 Badenhorst has been developing his solo programme consisting of improvisations and compositions for solo acoustic and electroacoustic wind instruments." ^ Hide Bio for Joachim Badenhorst • Show Bio for Pascal Niggenkemper "New York City-based German-French bassist, composer and improviser Pascal Niggenkemper is a performing and recording artist active on the creative music scene in the US and in Europe. From 1999-2005 he was musicaly active in Cologne having studied jazz & classical double bass at the Hochschule für Musik. In 2005 he received the DAAD award and moved to New York. From 2008 to 2010 Pascal led the PNTrio with Tyshawn Sorey and Robin Verheyen. (CD "pasàpas" Konnex 2008 & "urban creatures" JazzHausMusik 2010). The trio toured extensively in Europe performing at the Jazzcologne Festival, Jazzherbst Konstanz and at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Recordings for the WDR and the BR Radio. In cooperation with Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin, Pascal formed the septet vision7 that performed at Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin, Vive le Jazz in Cologne, Jazz à la Cité in Paris and at the Pori Jazz in Finland. (CD 'Lucky Prime' clean feed records Sept 2013) In September 2011 Pascal released with Simon Nabatov and Gerald Cleaver the CD/LP upcoming hurricane on NoBusiness Records which is listed among 'Albums of the year' 2011 in the 'The New York City Jazz Record'. The trio performed in Canada and the USA. He recently recorded a new solo program called: 'look with thine ears' music for bass & preparations was premiered at the Jazzdor Festival in Strasbourg in November 2013. The CD was released in March 2015 on clean feed records. He performed for the France Musique radio broadcast by Anne Montaron called 'a l'improviste'. In 2014 he presented the double trio 'le 7eme continent' with the program 'talking trash' at the Vive le Jazz festival in Cologne, Germany and the concert was broadcast by WDR3 radio. Their CD was released in May 2016 on clean feed records and the group performed in France, Belgium and Germany. Pascal is co-leading the groups baloni with Frantz Loriot viola and Joachim Badenhorst clarinets (CD 'fremdenzimmer' 2011, 'Belleke' 2014 & 'Ripples' 2015 clean feed records) PascAli a duo for two prepared basses with Sean Ali (CD 'suspicious activity' creative sources 2012) and Miner's Pick with Thomas Heberer. (CD 'miner's pick' FMR records 2014) With friends, he curates in NY the house concert series ze couch, where every month artists meet to present their work. Festival presence includes: Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin, Vision Festival New York, Umbrella Festival Chicago, Banlieues Bleues Paris, Strade del Cinema Aosta, météo Mulhouse, Jazzcologne, JIGG Lisbon, Taktlos Zurich, Jazz à la Cité in Paris, ESCUCHA Madrid, Washington DC Jazz Festival, Pori Jazz Festival, Middelheim Antwerp, Grenzenlos Köln, undead Jazzfest NYC, D'Jazz Nevers, NewAdits Klagenfurt, Font New York, Music Unlimited Wels, Vive le Jazz Cologne, GONG Aarau, Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, Ljubljana Jazz Festival etc... He received the following scholarships/grants: DAAD, Henry Mancini Institute, North Rhine-Westphalia composition stipend." ^ Hide Bio for Pascal Niggenkemper
11/5/2024
Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.
11/5/2024
Have a better biography or biography source? Please Contact Us so that we can update this biography.
Track Listing:
1. Belleke 3:57
2. Building Nothing Out Of Something 3:53
3. Mon Seul Desir 6:20
4. Feuertreppe 6:37
5. Turning Inwards, Like A Glove 4:06
6. Heaving Hearts 3:10
7. Forgetting 2:51
8. Casse Meditative 2:25
9. Snowflakes 5:19
10. What Grows Beneath 8:42
Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
Trio Recordings
Clean Feed
Trio Recordings
Chamber Jazz
Squidco's Clean Feed 50% Sale
Search for other titles on the label:
Clean Feed.