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BUGGE WESSELTOFT & HENRIK SCHWARZ duo
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Norwegian piano maestro Bugge Wesseltoft, pioneer of the electronic jazz movement and recently standing for celebrated intimate solopianoconcerts, teamed up with one of the worlds best and most looked after producer in the electronic music genre named Henrik Schwarz. They created a unique concert set exploring their ambient approach to jazz and the arts of electronic music. For both, Wesseltoft and Schwarz, this night opened up a new chapter of unique musical individualism inside an creative ensemble.
Even the two artists came to international fame for quite different skills, being an honoured jazzpianist and a highly demanded electronic producer, their foundations lay in the same musical background: the intense music of Miles Davis, Bill Evans and Sun Ra as also the productions of influencial house and techno pioneers Laurent Garnier, Francois Kervorkian or Moritz von Oswald from Basic Channel. These are the common basis of Schwarz and Wesseltofts tasteful approach to modality and energy, melodies and rhythms.
„I like the complexity in music“ Henrik Schwarz admits. „I like to cut already complex things into little pieces, mix them with other complex fragments and create something new out of them. If you manage to find the right balance between extremes you might be able to create something new and beautiful.“
Which is the perfect way to discribe the way they work together on stage: Wesseltofts harmonic chords are being send to his partners workstation. On the fly sampling and effectful looping leads to layers and complex textures filling up the room with simple beauty. The call and response feel of their improvised music and ambience soundscapes keeps the listeners tension all night long. video
XANTONÉ BLACQ
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You know international stars, world touring, megaselling artists Amy Winehouse or Nigel Kennedy? Then you also know the amazing vocalist and multiinstrumentalist Xantoné Blacq. He can be seen and heard as the superbrilliant sidekick of above mentioned. Xantoné Blacq is a hard to find combination of a singing keyboard player playing live on stage all over Europe. In the studio he’s known as a melodic composer and heartful arranger.
Xantoné Blacq’s own music is a sonic adventure fusing Jazz-Funk, Soul, Afro and Latin music. Xan describes it as ‘Free-Range Sunshine Music’ and that’s exactly how his highly acclaimed debutalbum sounds like.
Think Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock and Roy Ayers playing Future Soul. Music | Video
CARL CRAIG presents TRIBE
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1971, in Detroit, saxophonist Wendell Harrison and trombonist Phil Ranelin started a band, a recording company, and a magazine, and called them the Tribe. This legendary political, social, and aesthetic collective also included key members like trumpeter Marcus Belgrave, drummer Doug Hammond, Pianist Harold McKinney and other musicians.
Tribe like Sun Ra, Max Roach, Charles Mingus defined the very meaning of independent spirit and community in jazz. Few people in the Detroit area music scene have been untouched in some shape or form by the influence and impact of Tribe. The House, Techno and Hip Hop generation among them.
In spring 2007, internationally respected innovative producer Carl Craig re-assembled the remaining core living original members of the Tribe collective all still heavily active nationally and internationally and still very much in contact with.
In Craig’s newly refined Detroit Studio a brand new collective album started to take shape.
The record will feature classic Tribe material including a brand new arrangement of the Tribe classic “Vibes from The Tribe,” as well as new compositions written especially for the record. music | video
CLARA HILL
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Clara already released three masterpiece albums under her own name. Impressing by her deeply touching voice and great songwritering skills. Clara feels home in a wide and tasteful range of soul, house and recently mainly acoustic folkmusic. Outside her own musical universe a countless number of contributions and co-productions with artists like Jazzanova, 4hero, Atjazz, Âme, King Britt, Dixon can be found in many tastemakers record collections. Being not only a highly requested studioprofessional and songwritingtalent Clara Hill has not one but two livebands under her own name screened on billboards worldwide. Clara is also the main voice of the 14 piece Sonar Kollektiv Orchester representing the labels 10 years classics including her own SK label successes No Use, Silent Distance as also is leadsinger of the new Jazzanova liveband touring worldwide. Music | Video
PEER NEUMANN
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Pianist, songwriter and producer Peer Neumann founded his first family affair band with his father and brother at the age of twelve.
The half finnish multiinstrumentalist already played with Marlon Browden (Ex John Scofield group), german hiphop outfit Kinderzimmer Productions, musicians like Flo Dauner, Jan Plewka, groups like Re:Jazz and LiveDemo band and uberproducer Ralf Goldkind.
Peer Neumann recently stands in as the musical sidekick of Bantu & Afrobeat Academy, Ben Hamilton, Sandra Weckert, Knut Knutson and is acting in the childrens play Major Dux.
The debutalbum Let The Music Play got recorded in April 2008 in Oslo at Bugge Wesseltofts studio and is soon to be released. Expect surprising coverversions originally sung by Shannon, Lisa Stansfield, N.E.R.D. and Pulp together with a strong selection of own material interpreted on grand piano. Music | Video
MARK DE CLIVE-LOWE
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Mark de Clive-Lowe is a musician and producer based in the UK and at the forefront of the global beats, jazz and soul community. Having been involved with over 150 releases on labels including Masters At Work Records, Verve Records, Impulse Records and collaborating with as diverse a range of artists as Lauryn Hill, Jody Watley, UK soul don Omar, percussionist Sammy Figueroa (Miles Davis), bass player Pino Palladino (D’Angelo/The Who) and plenty more, MdCL is one of the most innovative producers and live performers you’ll find anywhere. Music & Video