Rebeka Rusjan Zajc
With her extraordinary debut album, Prelude, young Slovenian pianist Rebeka Rusjan Zajc (now residing in Amsterdam), announces herself as a precocious new talent, already forging her own distinctive art language, navigating the bountiful margins between non-idiomatic improvisation, jazz and classical music.
Across this disc’s sole extended piece, ‘Illusion’, she marshals a dynamic carnival of boundless extemporisation, full of instinctive runs and dramatically tumbling rubato, vivid constellations initiated in the imagination hyperdrive of her striking real-time composition. Passages of impish scherzo conjure fantastical images of surreal painted bestiaries, while converging notes rush like snaking rapids across the clashing rocks of atonalism. Evocative and oozing energy, this beguiling music clamours for allegory, voraciously fuelling fictional chimeras on its virtuosic feasts.
Prelude marks both an auspicious beginning and significant whistle-stop, a timely mustering of pooled practices, techniques and theories, its deftly weaved patterns and starry pointillism heralding an exciting new name in jazz. Rebeka Rusjan Zajc: dream weaver.

Resnik / Šalamon / Ber Trio
Cene Resnik (1978) saxophonist, improviser with a lot of experience in playing creative, free music, with many international collaborations, lives in Ljubljana. From 1997 to 2007 he was a member of the Slovenian rock group "Siddartha", graduated in jazz saxophone in Klagenfurt in 2007 and then regularly visited New York for two years of intensive musical studies to get to know the scene and gain stage experience. Since 2012, he has realized a number of critically acclaimed projects for renowned record labels.
Busy guitarist Samo Salamon is no stranger to regular club-goers, having played with musicians as diverse as Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Paul McCandless and most recently Arild Anderson and Bob Moses.
The trio is completed by Belgian drummer Samuel Ber (1995), who has made a name for himself on the European improv scene in a relatively short space of time. Premiere! CH