Bruno Spoerri & Roger Girod - In Between [CD]

TCB JAZZ

£16.65

Cat. no: TCB01342
Format: CD
Barcode: 725095013420
Release Date: 21 Oct 2022
Genre: Jazz

Electronic music is often accused of being soulless, unable to transmit emotions, and of being dominated by technology

However, this problem is farfrom being novel. Just think of the poor pianists who, since the invention of the piano (itself a highly technical and complex machine), have been facedwith the task of breathing something like a musical soul into the monster. Saxophonists don't know this problem: they sing, they speak, they evenscream their emotions directly into, and through their instrument. This is probably one of the reasons why jazz, this highly expressive music, likes touse this instrument – glibly based on the popular defnition, "Jazz is when there's a saxophone".Bruno Spoerri and Roger Girod fnd themselves in the midst of this tension – "in between" – as they explore new possibilities for the interplay betweentechnical challenges and personal expression. It turns out that the two seemingly contradictory approaches to jazz and electronics have more incommon than meets the eye: the playful and improvisational, the exploration and development of a personal sound palette, and the use of newrhythmic structures have been part of jazz since its beginnings, and make their appearance quite organically in electronic music.

For 50 years Bruno Spoerri has been dealing with the traditions and developments of jazz as well as with electronic music – from its pioneering analog beginnings to the digital forms of today. In pianist Roger Girod he has found a partner who is able to rectify these two sides with his spontaneousinterventions in an intensively interactive intercourse, forming an amalgam that speaks from the language of jazz, but also widens the vocabulary ofthis perennially metamorphic music. In the middle of this free space – between traditional forms and the potential of today's digital age – this duoclearly feels at home – In Between!

Tracks: No Moon At All / Leap Rhythm / All the Things You Are / You Don't Know What Love Is / Shake Shuttle and Blow / St. Thomas / Babazalues / Patterns 1 / Dinner for Two / Randy / Patterns 2

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