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Baggerboot
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This Trio evokes the powerful joy of playing from the Free Jazz tradition. The music unfolds with enormous energy and an amazingly expansive volume of tone. The sudden changes in color and the surprising turns during the improvisations lend a new face to the "power play" of Free Jazz.
Liner Notes
The music documented on Baggerboot represents a moment of interconnectedness of three extraordinary individual musicians expressing their freedoms in an exciting world community of improvisers. They have moved through a variety of trainings in traditional forms of music to create their exploratory musical energies. Whether it is the fierce energy of noise with each musician wrapping around the others or the interplay of lyrical moments, there is awareness and communication.
Improvisation is musical survival in the meta-cultural soundscape that is thriving, throbbing and sending new possibilities for relationships in a world littered with the millennial old patterns of argument as war. In this music there is negotiation, give and take in intimate and open spaces.
This trio of indomitable musicians brings a rewarding feeling of unity. Their music is timely in a world of no time. The music is challenging in its multi-faceted detail. The bottom line is feeling that is never trapped in virtuosity Ð the music carries the feeling through waves of balanced simplicity, complexity and deep textural combinations of well loved instruments.
- Pauline Oliveros
Biographies
Gunda Gottschalk
violin / viola
Born 1969
Lives Wuppertal, Germany
Gunda Gottschalk plays improvised and contemporary music and combines her musical work with other art forms such as dance, theater, film, composition, visual art and literature. Since 1991 Gunda has been a member of Partita Radicale, a quintet for new and improvised music. Besides developing original improvisation cycles, Partita Radicale became known to a broader audience through their silent movie programs with live music, music theater productions and collaborations with composers. In 1994/95 the violinist met the bassist Peter Kowald. She performed in Kowald’s Ort-Ensemble and with important international soloists for improvised music such as Joelle Leandre, Carlos Zingaro, and Evan Parker. From 1995-2002, together with Xu Feng Xia, she made up the core trio of Kowald’s Global Village Ensemble, which brought together musicians from radically different cultural heritages. In ensembles ranging from trio to sextet, Global Village concertized in Europe and the USA. Among the many guest artists collaborating with the trio were Jin Hi Kim, Savina Yannatou, Pamela Z, Jeanne Lee, Otomo Yoshihide, Le Quan Ninh. 2002/03 Solo tours took Gunda all over the USA. There she played with William Parker, Susie Ibarra, Assif Tsahar, Michael Zerang, Oliver Lake, and Fred Frith, among many others. Gunda Gottschalk has been well represented on festivals of contemporary and improvised music throughout Europe and is a regular guest at the avantgarde Visions festival in New York.
www.gunda-gottschalk.de
Peter Jacquemyn
bass
Born 1963
Lives Brakel, Belgium
Peter Jacquemyn is a member of WIM (Werkgroep Improviserende Musici) and has been performing since 1984. He performs in ensembles, duos, trios and quartets as well as participating in dance projects and theatrical performances. He is also a painter and sculptor. He performs in ensembles with Fred Van Hove, Ivo Vanerborght, Jacques Palindkx, Conrad Bauer, Wolfgang Fuchs, Takashi Yamane, Michael Moore, Ernst Reysegger, Barre Phillips, Roger Turner, Tony Oxley, Joelle Leandre, the late Peter Kowald, and many other stellar musicians. Duos and Trios with V2duo with Andre Goudbeek (sax), Gunda Gottschalk (violin), Geurt Grossfeld (flute), Trios with Andre Goudbeek and Le Quan Ninh (percussion), Jeffrey Morgan (sax) and Mark Sanders (percussion) are also part of his performance repertoire.
www.peterjacquemyn.com
Ute Völker
accordion
Born 1963
Lives Wuppertal, Germany
Ute Völker is an accordion teacher at the Music School in Bochum, as well as a performing musician specializing in free improvisation. She studied the accordion and music theory at the Musikhochschule in Cologne, Germany. She has also studied musicology, phonetics and German at the Universities of Cologne, Vienna and Paris. Ute is a cofounder of Partita Radicale, an ensemble of modern improvised music and contemporary chamber music. Partita Radicale have performed worldwide in countries such as Belgium, France, Rumania, Albania, and China. Trios in which she performs include Gottschalk and Jaquemyn as well as John Russel (guitar) and Mathieu Wischowski (violin). Ute has played duos with performing artist Cornelie Müller (Munich, Germany), as well as with Carl-Ludwig Hübsch (Tu) and Chefa Alonso (sax). Ute is a member of Fineworks orchestra for improvised music. She has performed in concerts of improvised music both alone and with many artists in Europe, USA, Canada and Argentina. Since 1994, Ute has also been very active in various theatre productions, the latest being in 2004 Mr. WangÕs New Face with Partita Radicale and Wen Lei (Peking opera singer).
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