Mon. 25.November

21:00 Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio feat. Evan Parker & Paul Lovens

Thirty years ago he was the devil personified of German "block warden jazz". Today, partially due to his all-star expedition corps Globe Unity plus his tenacious trio work with Lovens and Parker, he forms part of the bedrock of European improvised music.

"For me, personally, even from the very beginning, ...it (jazz) always had to do with a musically constructive approach and not just ... a protest stance or destructive playing," Schlippenbach claims. This constructive approach surfaces in his trio work. Schlippenbach's trio -- a radical-emancipatory experimentalist group established a quarter-century ago -- values consistency and sustains itself through the members' joint interest in applying both the freedom quotient in jazz and the structured approach of new music in the context of an elementary "school of listening".

With eruptive and sometimes brachial immediacy -- which once unloosed such atrocities as cudgel-jazz & pathologically bezerk hooliganism -- a filigreed pattern of trio interaction that is both spontaneous and precise opens up behind a cascade of percussive power. Here, their finely-honed instrumental artistry serves less for the vain execution of superficial reactant/reaction schemes as it does for the accurate materialization of intricately interlocked sound techtonics of the type that have produced such concepts as density, color, energy level and process to replace the traditional musical parameters. Rather than adhering to stylistic rules, the group "uses"

musical constraints to produce naked music lying somewhere between horror and bliss.
(Lovens) KP

Admission: ATS 150.-


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