Butoh Dance Performance in Japan
Part of Swiss Butoh dancer Imre Thormann's performance at Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine in Shiga (Japan) in summer 2006. The live music is by Swiss jazz pianist Nik Baertsch and his band "Mobile".
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Don Li / Tonus-Music Labor 2001 / Part 50
Don Li, alto Sax, Concept, Compositions Werner Hasler, Trumpet Nik Baertsch, Fender Rhodes Patrik Lerjen, Guitar Björn Meyer, Bass Marco Agovino, Drums TONUS-MUSIC is a musical and compositional concept of reduction and repetition. A combination of groove and minimal music, moreover interesting elements of metric, the interconnection and equilibrium of rhythmical structures in combination with musical asceticism and meditation. TONUS-MUSIC (since 1993) was developed by the Swiss musician and composer Don Li, who established the TONUS-MUSIC LABOR in Bern, Switzerland. It is a place serving as concert hall, recording studio, public laboratory, home to workshops and classes. TONUS-MUSIC LABOR has established itself as the terminal for musicians, composers, and those interested in the aesthetics of TONUS-MUSIC. Check:www.tonus-music-records.com
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Nik Bärtsch: Modul 47
CHECK OUT: www.nikbartsch.com www.myspace.com Modul 47, for bass clarinet+contrabass clarinet, bass, piano, drums and percussion (arr. for oboe, bass clarinet, e-bass, drums, piano, recorder, e-guitar, doyra, gidjak, rubab prima by Evan Ziporyn) Leo Ziporyn, oboe Evan Ziporyn, bass clarinet...
Nik Bartsch's Ronin
Ronin is the zen-funk jazz quintet founded in 2001 by Swiss composer and pianist Nik Bartsch, together with Kaspar Rast (drums), Björn Meyer (bass), Andi Pupato (percussion) and Sha (bass/contrabass clarinet). Despite the multiplicity of the band's influences, Ronin's music always possesses a strong individuality, incorporating elements of disparate musical worlds, including funk, new classical music and sounds from Japanese ritual music. Filmed at on 9th March 2010 by the Band on the Wall AV Unit.
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Nik Bartsch's Ronin - "Rea" 2004
Ecstasy through asceticism RITUAL GROOVE MUSIC, the title of my first CD, also points to the fundamental concept of my musical thinking. The music shows a close affinity to architecturally organized space and is governed by the principles of repetition and reduction as well as by interlocking rhythms. A piece of music can be entered, inhabited like a room. It moves forward and transforms through obsessive circular movements, superimposition of different meters and micro-interplay. The listeners attention is directed toward minimal variations and phrasing. The band becomes an integral organism - like an animal, a habitat, an urban space. One must think with ears and hands. Normally, we work in three distinct formations. The group MOBILE plays purely acoustic music, performed in rituals of up to 36 hours, including light- and room design. The Zen-funk quartet RONIN, by contrast, is more flexible and plays the compositions more freely. As a solo performer I perform my compositions on prepared piano with percussion. Despite the tightly organized compositional construction, improvisation plays an important role in our music. On the one hand, accentuation, ghost notes, and variations within a composition are tossed back and forth between the musicians; on the other hand, a particular voice within a composition might have more freedom than the others. In doing so, that voice forms an independent module that can interact with the strictly notated interlocking patterns in <b>...</b>
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Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, Ronin on Tour 2008
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Nik Bärtsch's Ronin - Modul 52
Artist: Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Track: Modul 52 Album: Llyrìa Year: 2010 Genre(s): Minimalist Jazz, Piano