BUGGE WESSELTOFT (n) & HENRIK SCHWARTZ (s)Unikt samarbeid mellom to skinnende nordiske elektronika stjerner!
A truly outstanding and unique electronic-acoustic
collaboration featuring two internationally celebrated artists. BUGGE
WESSELTOFT & HENRIK SCHWARZ: Jazz & Electronic uniquely merges
on a high innovative level, based on improvisation and raw creative live
sampling.
Even the two artists came to international fame for quite opposite
skills, one being an honoured jazzpianist, the other a highly demanded
electronic producer, their foundations lay in the same musical
background: the intense music of Miles Davis, Bill Evans and Sun Ra, the
productions of influencial house and techno pioneers like Laurent
Garnier, Francois Kervorkian and Moritz von Oswald. These influences are
the common basis of SCHWARZs and WESSELTOFTs tasteful approach to
modality and energy, melodies and rhythms.
Norwegian piano maestro BUGGE WESSELTOFT, pioneer of the electronic
jazz movement and recently standing for celebrated intimate
solopianoconcerts, one day teamed up with one of the worlds best and
most looked after producer in the electronic music genre named Henrik
Schwarz. In early 2009 the artists met for an improvised and therefore
unique concert exploring their ambient approach to jazz and the arts of
electronic music. For both, WESSELTOFT and SCHWARZ, this night opened up
a new chapter of unique musical individualism inside an creative
ensemble. They are recently recording an album for a release in spring
2010.
Which is the perfect way to describe the way they work together:
WESSELTOFTs harmonic chords and strong melodies are being send to his
partners workstation. On the fly sampling and effective looping leads to
layers and complex textures filling up the room with simple beauty.
SCHWARZ also adds light percussion fragments, strong rhythmic patterns.
The call and response feel of their mainly improvised
electronic-acoustic music and ambience soundscapes keeps the listeners
tension all night long. This show is an audiovisual experience with the
music being perfectly underlined by a tasteful modern livevisuals
performance.