New band starting:

CHRISTIAN WEIDNER QUARTETT

Christian Weidner – Saxophone
Colin Vallon – Piano
Henning Sieverts –Bass
Samuel Rohrer –Drums

WEIDNER PALESANO SCHRÖTELER

Christian Weidner – saxophone, electronics
Antonio Palesano – piano, synthesizer, electronics
Daniel Schröteler – drums, 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.
An expressive musicality is again and again led back anew with subtlety and captivation to channels set by the composer thus making this outstanding, very mature and independent album a meritorious stroke of luck.

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)
www.pirouetrecords.com
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DUO: WEIDNER PALESANO

Christian Weidner – saxophone, electronics
Antonio Palesano – piano, synthesizer, 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.

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ROYCE

Simon Stockhausen – synth, sampler, electr, ssax, voc
Christian Weidner – saxes, electr, dictaphone, 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.
Experienced in various backgrounds like jazz, ethnic music and contemporary avantgarde they explore and create without stilistic boundaries.

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