»A truly outstanding and unique electronic-acoustic collaboration featuring two internationally celebrated artists.« PR

A truly outstanding and unique electronic-acoustic collaboration featuring two internationally celebrated artists. Jazz & Electronic uniquely merges on a high
innovative level, based on improvisation and raw creative live sampling. 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.
„I like the complexity in music“ Henrik Schwarz (!K7/ Innervisions) admits. „I like to cut already complex things into little pieces, mix them with other complex fragments
and create something new out of them. If you manage to find the right balance between extremes you might be able to create something new and beautiful.“ Which is the perfect way to discribe 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. Bugge Wesseltoft (Jazzland Recs):
„I love music and I think about music nearly all day long. Some people could think that it's like an obsession. I have new concepts than come to my head every day which I try to fulfill in a way to make them happen and do them the best way I can.“ Even the two artists came to international fame for quite different skills, being an
honoured jazzpianist and a highly demanded electronic producer, their foundations lay in the same musical background: the intense music of Miles Davis, Bill Evans and Sun Ra as also the productions of influencial house and techno pioneers Laurent Garnier, Francois Kervorkian and Moritz von Oswald from Basic Channel.
These are the common basis of Schwarz and Wesseltofts tasteful approach to modality and energy, melodies and rhythms.