Here´s my new Band with CD out in November 2010! Christian Weidner – Saxophone
visit pirouetrecords ...for more info and sound (german) |
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Dear listener!
We have just recorded our new album for the label Pirouet (www.pirouetrecords.com),
which will be released this autumn 2010. It´s called "The Inward
Song". As the title „The Inward Song“ suggests –
the songs are mainly quiet with an intimate sound, leading from places
that feel like home to strange mysterious places with the band exploding
to pieces...finding it´s way back (maybe), weirdly transformed. A few more words about my fellow musicians:
here an infotext in german: "The Inward Song“ |
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Christian Weidner – saxophone, electronics Weidner, Palesano and Schröteler founded the trio in year 2000. They started with intense and sweaty sessions at Weidners Berlin-located Waldwinkel Space, creating their own way of melodious jazz avantgarde. After several homemade releases they were invited by the Pirouet record label to record the “CHORAL” – album in december 2003. They went on release Tour in Germany in 2005. Christian Weidner’s album “CHORAL” combines the
basis of traditional music – folk and gospel – and elements
of jazz music and improvisation with a certain highly precisioned spirit
of avant-garde, a spirit searching for topical concepts and values endeavoring
after adequate phrasing. This acoustic trio, featuring Christian Weidner on sax, Antonio Palesano on piano and Daniel Schröteler on drums, has several years of common and definitive experience. An experience that creates an accurate and extremely artistic network of intuitively exchanged signals enabling the perfection of a highbrow and abstract treatment of the liturgical theme in conception. In sixteen songs we experience the sequence of a multidimensional attempt to come to terms with an aesthetic and spiritual complex by analysis, repetition and transformation, a sequence we are all familiar with somehow or another. “To me choral is a term related to my personal origin. The melody of a ritual song, the breath and pulse of lyrics and syllables sung in a formal ceremony. “This aura and this dimension of music fascinate me”. (Christian Weidner) Based on the preceding intensively intellectual abstraction, new directions for the development of themes and style of playing set by the composer present themselves to the musicians. These rooms fill in brilliantly free form on a most high level, relaxed, abundant with subtle stagings and perfectly set accents, ambitious in its range of tempos and modulations, from repetitive to appellative (“Teo”). The whole creation remains unerringly firm in its balance on a sharp edge between composition and improvisation. The arising tone poems lead the listener to complex, powerfully melodious stratifications and fragmentary sequential arpeggios through which the actual theme remains visible, the interrelationship between minor and major, fragment and whole within higher harmonics. “What counts, is to fathom out your origins and your musical home and to lead it with dedication and risk to a subjective message”. (Christian Weidner). Text by Andrea Leiber CD release: Christian Weidner / “CHORAL” (PIT3009) (2004)
Christian Weidner – saxophone, electronics Weidner and Palesano present an intimate duo program, dealing with new statements on beloved traditions. Rooted in the wide fields of both Jazz and European contemporary music they let the music material flow through their homegrown music morphing channels, always searching for new knobs to turn.
Simon Stockhausen – synth, sampler, electr, ssax, voc Simon and Christian met in the Berlin Workshop Orchestra in 1999. Since
then they started recording duo sessions together. Later on Daniel Schröteler,
Kalle Kalima and Dane Alderson joined the group. Meanwhile they played
concerts in Germany and France, did film music productions and received
a recording sponsorship by the Berlin senat in 2004.
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| other current projects: | |||
| MORF with Johannes Lauer - tb, Oli Potratz - b and Moritz Baumgärtner - dr | |||
| MERKUR with Kalle Kalima - git, Andreas Edelmann b and Sebastian Merk - dr | |||
| FO(U)R ALTO with Frank Gratkowski as, Benjamin Weidekamp - as and Florian Bergmann - as | |||
| LEXICON with Chris Dahlgren - b/comp, Gebhard Ullmann - bcl/ts, Antonis Anissegos - p, Eric Schäfer - dr | |||
| JOHN SCHRÖDER QUARTETT with John Schröder - p, Oli Potratz - b and Oli Steidle/Christian Lillinger - dr | |||
| TEMPELEKTRISCH with Rainer Tempel - p, Nils Wogram - tb, Axel Schlosser - tp, Frank Möbus - git, Wolfgang Zwiauer - b and Jim Black - dr | |||
| LAUER LARGE with Reto Suhner - as/cl, Florian Trübsbach - as/oboe, Matthias Erlewein - ts/cl, Steffen Schorn - bs/bcl, Colin Vallon - p, Henning Sieverts - b, Peter Bruun - dr, Ronny Graupe - git, Johannes Lauer - tb, Simon Harrer - tb, Andy Tschopp - tb, Ed Partyka - btb, Mats Spillmann - tp, Kasper Tranberg - tp, Matthias Schriefel - tp | |||