aly keïta – jan galega brönnimann – lucas niggli | Villa For Forest

Datum: Sa, 14.03.2020 um 20:00
Veranstalter: Verein Innenhofkultur
Ort: Villa For Forest
Link: jangalegabroennimann.ch/index.php/projects

contemporary world music | new cd out in february 2020!
aly keïta | balafon / voice
jan galega brönnimann | bass clarinet
lucas niggli | percussion
Eintritt: € 18 | StudentInnen/SchülerInnen € 10
Supported by FOR FOREST

aly keita is one of the grand masters of the balafon, the west african xylophone. the ivorian musician won countless awards (including the german world music award „ruth“) and fits the balafon in interaction with artists such as joe zawinul, omar sosa, pharao sanders, paco séry, dobet gnahore, manu gallo and jan garbarek. together with the swiss clarinetist jan galega brönnimann and swiss drummer lucas niggli, both born in cameroon, keïta mixes the traditional african repertoire with western jazz, improvisation and african rhythms. this „brotherhood of vibes and grooves“ takes the audience on an adventurous ride – from the deepest jungle to great lengths under the african sky and back to europe.

press:

next came another one of the season’s most gripping sets, completely featuring a west african pulse. musicians aly keita (playing the balafon, a malian marimba precursor, with gourd resonators placed underneath each wooden key-strip), jan galega brönnimann (bass clarinets) and lucas niggli (drums) concentrated on the most heightened form of groove, enriched by an immense force of musical optimism.
downbeat april 2017

in fact this cd is a delight! best jazzalbum 2016
telegraph, london 2016

„was jan galega brönnimann und seine beiden komplizen am eröffnungsabend des festivals vorführten, es war von beglückender grossartigkeit.“
derbund, januar 2016, ane hebeisen

*****als trio haben sie zehn abwechslungsreiche arrangements eingespielt, deren jazzige flexibilität die heissen afro-rhythmen aufwerten. dazu kommen die coolen klarinetten als europäischer kontrast.
kulturtip, januar 2016, jürg solothurnmann

„die exoten sind hier die schweizer. besonderen reiz ins ganze bringen die tiefen klarinetten brönnimanns, der mit samtenem ansatz ebenso temposicherer begleiter wie ge­ sanglicher solist ist und ein wenig an den mittleren coltrane erinnert.“
jazz n‘ moore, januar 2016

„so funky und dennoch auch melancholisch angeblasen wie es mit ‚adjamé street‘ endet, scheinen zwischen afrika und der bleichen diaspora kein meer, keine alpenfestung und kein fitzel papier zu passen.“
rogobert dittman, bad alchemy 88, dezember 2015

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Noise, Silence, Action | Villa For Forest

Villa For Forest, Viktringer Ring 21, 9020 Klagenfurt In this event, the GMPU Experimental Music Workshop will perform works by Pullitzer Prize recipient, Diné musician and artist Raven Chacon; experimental music mavericks Christian Wolff and James Tenney; and founding member of the Fluxus Movement Alison Knowles. Each work explores alternative forms of musical notation including graphical scores and text-based event scores that result in sounds and actions that challenge the very definition of music and prompt innovative and unconventional performance practices. These works also encourage a new form of listening and engaging with music by probing extremal and liminal musical spaces: from the almost imperceptibly soft and sparse to the loud and dense. In some cases, the music even reaches "beyond sound" through the consideration of colonial histories and the navigation of social systems and their corresponding power dynamics.

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