First introduced at the "Konfrontationen" festival in Nickelsdorf in 2006, German pianist and composer Georg Graewe's Sonic Fiction Orchestra developed these diverse works of jazz, fusion-tinged, and chamber improv during a residency at the 2018/19 Porgy & Bess in Vienna, recording in the studio in 2020 for this impressive album, particularly the large "Redshift E" composition.
Label: Random Acoustics Catalog ID: RA 034CD Squidco Product Code: 29833
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2020 Country: Germany Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold Recorded in Vienna, Austria, January to July, 2020, by Martin Siewert.
"The Sonic Fiction Orchestra was first introduced at the "Konfrontationen" festival in Nickelsdorf/Austria in 2006 and had gone through changes in personnel and long periods of dormancy, before performing nine concerts over a period of nine months as part of a residency at Vienna's Porgy & Bess in the 2018/19 season. Studio sessions for this album ran from January through September 2020, interrupted for several weeks due to the Covid-19 lockdown.
Sketches and first drafts of some parts of these compositions go back 15 years and more and the current - more or less final - renditions could not have been fully developed without decades of hardcore experience in small groups. [...]"-Georg Graewe, from the liner notes