Recorded live, this collaboration of saxophonist Daniel Erdmann and drummer Samuel Rohrer with Vincent Courtois on cello, and Frank Mobus on guitar, blends jazz, rock, and chamber approaches in beautifully panoramic improvisation of subtle yet capricious intent.
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Daniel Erdmann-tenor saxophone
Samuel Rohrer-drums
Vincent Courtois-cello, effects
Frank Mobus-guitar
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UPC: B00GPL0JFE
Label: Arjunamusic
Catalog ID: AM 702
Squidco Product Code: 19462
Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2013
Country: Germany
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded by Bayerischer Rundfunk at BMV Welt, in Munich, Germany, on Feburary 17th, 2013.
"It is good news that the band is not only still going strong but has also been able to logically further develop its concept. Sometimes sumptuously floating, then enormously gripping again, always alert and artful and full of musical refinement, inviting into open spaces that are filled in a well-paced and thoughtful manner. Composition and improvisation balance each other out. Wonderful themes full of atmosphere are developed and played around with. The question of whether these sounds are jazz, rock, pop or sounds with a hint of classical becomes completely irrelevant. It melts into insignificance behind amazement at this striking, deeply-focused music, which generates a high feel-good factor not swathed in complacency, and in an altogether fresh way constructs its edifice of moods, nuances and details. It is the group sound that counts.
The review ascribed to this German, French, Swiss quartet "undreamt-of tonal possibilities" following its debut CD "How to Catch a Cloud" in the year 2011. Elsewhere they were described as playing "idiosyncratic compelling music with great subtlety", as exhibiting "all kinds of flights of fancy", as "happening", as having "enormously diverse group interconnections". Earthy, rich in detail, rocky, contemporary. The listener is invited "to let his heart be warmed by the cool songs"
The international praise was unanimous and again and again emphasised what is special about this band: the unusual line-up with saxophone, percussion and the two stringed instruments, guitar and cello, the abandonment of the sequence, so central to jazz, of theme and solo, the blending of various influences to form something as thrilling as it is dreamy, something completely and utterly new. The musical finesse of the four adds up to a grandiose fresh group sound that keeps pace with the zeitgeist as it relishes filling the space and beguiles the listener. These are essentially the same pieces that are illuminated afresh in live performance and prove themselves to be sound launch pads for this rough impressionism. Without imposing, this band organism allows magic to grow: always new interconnections, subtle groove, precisely derived points of departure and arrival within the framework of a fascinating dramaturgy.
Meditative, honest and in full, yet never overflowing arcs, this produces floating in open space.This band is serendipity. Its range is wide. It focuses on the collective and not on self- representation of the individual. Nevertheless, there is enough space for extraordinary solos. Each of those involved has been celebrated in various contexts as an extraordinary instrumentalist. This music has this as a requirement without having to exhibit it. It concerns the balance of rational and intuition.
Or to stay with the image of floating clouds from the CD title: their composition might be scientifically researched yet to delight in the interplay of their images, it is not necessary to know anything about this. On a sensuous emotional level, this music excites the imagination. It defines in a wondrous way that extra something that only good art manages to generate. It does not have to impose because it is aware of its resources. It is precisely from the subtle, not the superficial that its fascination emanates, and it increases on every hearing."-Arjunamusic
Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Daniel Erdmann "Daniel Erdmann was born in 1973 in Wolfsburg, Germany. He has been playing the saxophone since 1983 and studied a.o.with Gebhard Ullmann at the Academy of Music Hanns Eisler. He recorded albums for various labels, i.a. BMC, ENJA, ACT, LABEL BLEU, INTAKT and plays concerts worldwide with bands and musicians like Das Kapital, Vincent Courtois, Aki Takase, Carlos Bica, Heinz Sauer, Samuel Rohrer, Henri Texier. In 2014 he founded the German-French company DAS ATELIER and his new band Daniel Erdmann's Velvet Revolution with Théo Ceccaldi and Jim Hart. The first album of the band ( BMC Records ) was awarded the Year Award of German Critic and an Echo Jazz. Daniel Erdmann also collaborates with dancer Nicolas Fayol and painter Jean Michel Hannecart, and in autumn 2019 Velvet Revolution's second album will be released." ^ Hide Bio for Daniel Erdmann • Show Bio for Samuel Rohrer "Born in 1977 in Switzerland, Samuel grew up in a music connected family. He played the piano from age seven and switched over to drums with the age of 14, studying with Gilbert Paeffgen, who introduced him soon to Billie Brooks, with whom he studied at the Hochschule der Künste (formerly Swiss Jazz School) in Berne later on. In 2000, after studying in Boston, he became a demand drummer in Switzerland and started touring Europe and abroad with Patrick Muller Trio, Nya, Wolfert Brederode, Susanne Abbuehl Group, Malcolm Braff, Bänz Oester, Erik Truffaz and Harald Haerter a o. Since 2003 he lives in Berlin and became one of the influental musicians of his generation for improvised music. His flexibility and capability to move around effortlessly in different styles, from atmospheric and free sounds to straight and energetic grooves make him a very dynamical and one of the creative percussionists in the european music scene today. Performances and recordings amongst others with artists such as Laurie Anderson, Sidsel Endresen, Nils Petter Molvaer, Ricardo Villalobos, Skuli Sverrisson, Nan Goldin, Eivind Aarset, Max Loderbauer, Frank Möbus, Jan Bang, Vincent Courtois, Daniel Erdmann, Peter Herbert, Trygve Seim, Matthieu Michel, Erik Truffaz, Mark Feldman, Charles Gayle, Sirone, Hal Crook, Michel Portal, Claudio Puntin, Soundwalk Collective, Carlos Bica, Ferenc Snetberger, Joao Paulo Esteves da Silva, Markus Stockhausen, Arild Andersen and many, many more... He recorded several albums for ECM, Intakt, HatHut and other labels and built his own label arjunamusic records in 2012. He is touring with his own group Noreia, the Daniel Erdmann-Samuel Rohrer Quartet, Wolfert Brederode Quartet, AMBIQ with Claudio Puntin & Max Loderbauer, with Klaus Gesing and Björn Meyer, his new trio with Trygve Seim and Harmen Fraanje and works on several new projects. Samuel has been touring all over the world and played on major festivals like the NorthSea Festival Rotterdam NL, JVC Festival Amsterdam, Montreal Int. Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Fest., CTM Festival Berlin, Portland Jazzfestival, MoldeJazz NO, Punkt Festival NO, Bergen Jazzfestival NO, OffBeat Basel, JazzNoJazz Zürich, JazzdOr Strasbourg, Saalfelden A, Banlieues Bleues Paris, Nevers Jazzfestival F, Festival Le Mans F, Ulju Festival Korea, EnjoyJazz Mannheim D, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival GB, London Jazzfestival GB, Jazzfestival Willisau CH, Fajir International Music Festival Tehran and many more... After meeting so many wonderful people all over the planet and feeling at home in many different places, he would consider himself as a nomad and world citizen." ^ Hide Bio for Samuel Rohrer • Show Bio for Vincent Courtois "Vincent Courtois (born 21 March 1968) is a French jazz cellist. Courtois studied classical cello at the Conservatory of Aubervilliers, first with Erwan Fauré, and then with Roland Pidoux and Frédéric Lodéon. He also played Didier Levallet and Dominique Pifarély, and since 1988 in bandslead by Christian Escoudé and Didier Levallet ("Swing String System") in Paris. In addition he started his own quartet in 1990, releasing his debut solo album Cello News the same year. He played in the duo with Martial Solal from 1993, with Julien Lourau in "Pendulum Quartet", with Franck Tortiller in the band "Tukish Blend" and the trio "Zebra 3", and in addition he played with Xavier Desandre Navarre. He has also contributed to the album Marvellous (1994) with Michel Petrucciani, Tony Williams and Dave Holland. In 1995 Courtois performed his first solo concerts, he played within François Corneloup's Septett, and collaborated with Louis Sclavis making music for film and theatre. He also recorded two albums with the quintet of Rabih Abou-Khalil, and in 1998 he participated in an ensemble led by Pierre Favre, and a trio with Yves Robert. In 2000he was in three trio constellations, in 2002 a quintet played at the festival "Banlieues Bleues", and in a trio with Ellery Eskelin and Sylvie Courvoisier. In 2005 Courtois joined Michele Rabbia and Marilyn Crispell to play in Bamako with his own trio. He was involved with Henri Texiers in recording the music to the movie Holy Lola by Bertrand Tavernier. In 2006 he initiated a new quartet with Jeanne Lagt, Marc Baron and François Merville. In 2008 he released the album L' homme avion with Ze Jam Afane." ^ Hide Bio for Vincent Courtois • Show Bio for Frank Mobus "Frank Möbus (* March 7, 1966 in Nuremberg) is a German guitarist of modern jazz . Möbus studied in Boston , Massachusetts at the Berklee College of Music from 1985 to 1989, and during this time he also had regular jazz music lessons with Jerry Bergonzi . With the bass clarinetist Rudi Mahall he founded the band Der Rote Bereich in 1989, with which he visited countless internationally renowned festivals and has released seven albums (for Jazz4Ever Records , ACT and Intakt). In the project Azul by Carlos Bica , he has worked with Jim Black since 1993. He has also been a member of the groups, Christoph Grab's "Raw Vision", the formation "KUU!", With Daniel Erdmann from Erdmann / Rohrer / Möbus / Courtois (since 2009). And Wiesendanger / Möbus / Hemingway. He was a member of the formations "Erdmann 3000" (formerly known as Erdmann 2000) " Yuri Honings " "Wired Paradise", Paul van Kemenade -international 5tett, Dejan Terzic "underground and the soulband" Spank You ". He toured as a soloist with musicians such as Herb Robertson , Ray Anderson , Kenny Wheeler , Mark Helias, Karl Berger , Louis Sclavis , Maria João , Chris Speed , David Moss , Till Brönner and Han Bennink . As a soloist, he worked for the RIAS Big Band , the Ars Nova Ensemble , the Ensemble für Neue Musik Zürich, and Kevin Coyne's "Paradise Band". Since 1990 he has played up to 300 concerts worldwide with different formations. Möbus was appointed professor of jazz guitar and ensemble to the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar in 2003. He has also taught as a lecturer for jazz guitar at the Lucerne University since 2007 and taught at many jazz workshops around the world. Frank Möbus composed the film music for Hans-Günter Brodmann and Rio Vermelho of the director Raquel Freire and worked occasionally with ambitious productions of young artists as a producer . Privately Frank Möbus chose Berlin as its foodstuff. He is the father of a son and a daughter." ^ Hide Bio for Frank Mobus
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Track Listing:
1. Cumulus 5:46
2. Konassors 6:01
3. 5463 10:50
4. In The Valley 8:13
5. M39 5:42
6. Broken Tails 11:55
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