Focused on the unusual physical properties of their instruments as tubes and air chambers capable of remarkable palette of sounds, overtones, thumps and inexplicable manifestations, Berlin-based trumpeter Brad Henkel and recorder player Miako Klein present two extended conversation of intensely compatible and wildly controlled, extended approaches to improvisation.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2021 Country: Slovenia Packaging: Digipack - 3 panel Recorded at Studio Borne, in Berlin, Germany, in 2019, by Roy Carroll.
"Trumpet and recorder in their elemental form (tubes and air) envelop the space with a magnified environment of harmonizing and clashing timbres. Whistling overtones, percussive thumps, shrieking voices. Walls of sound, nervous twitches, burrowing moles."-Miako Klein website
"Brad Henkel (1985) is a trumpet player and composer from the States, currently based in Berlin. With a primary focus on improvisation, using a broad color palette of pitched and unpitched sounds, he creates and participates in music which is rooted in the free jazz, contemporary composed and Echtzeitmusik traditions. He studied jazz trumpet in Los Angeles with Bobby Shew and Clay Jenkins, and improvisation and composition with Jeff Kaiser and John Fumo. He also studied improvisation with Tony Malaby, Ralph Alessi and other staples of the New York scene.
Berlin-based performer and improviser Miako Klein (1982) has a greatly varied musical background: classically educated on the recorder and violin, she has extensive experience in performing contemporary music, as well as improvised and early music. She constantly questions and challenges the conventional ways of music practices by pushing boundaries between styles and genres, by experimenting, and by interdisciplinary works. She performs as a soloist and chamber musician, and collaborates with composers who have written dedicated works for her."-Inexhaustible Editions