Jazz à Luz 2016: Pascal Niggenkemper Solo

Pascal Niggenkemper_contrabajo

Festival d'Altitude Jazz à Luz, Luz Saint Sauveur, 15.07.2016

Jazz à Luz 2016: 'Le 7ème continent', talking trash

... "an artificial world, in the midst of the ocean, accidentally created by men" ... 

Reports and images of floating garbage in the ocean, named the "seventh continent” or “the Great Pacific garbage patch" called my attention, made me think and at the same time encouraged me to put this absurd reality into music. 

The goal of this musical project is to make this 'seventh continent' sing, hiss, whirr, buzz and scream. Creating a wall of sound and rhythm, from where colors, patterns, melodies, and improvisations arise. 

The sextet, which includes musicians from France, Germany, Austria, Spain and Belgium, consists of two identical instrumented trios or three identical duos, with the exception of the double bass, which has the sub-contrabass flute as it's pendant."

Texto extraído de la web de Pascal Niggenkemper 

'Le 7ème continent', talking trash
Pascal Niggenkemper_contrabajo_composición
Julián Elvira_flauta  sub-contrabajo
Joris Rühl_clarinetes
Joachim Badenhorst_clarinetes
Eve Risser_piano preparado
Philip Zoubek_piano preparado
Festival d'Altitude Jazz à Luz, Luz Saint Sauveur, 13.07.2016