Results for "Manuel Mengis"

Manuel Mengis

Basic idea and concept From the onset my aim was to find create a sound, which challenges each of us and which provides a balance between control and caprice, structure and instinct. Kitsch is a part of our music just as much as brutal force. The music is not reduced to one particular style, but depending on the venue and mood a variety of styles "combined or deconstructed" will be used in one composition. Motifs and themes will take the listener through a continuously changing soundscape; these will be highlighted and covered up, joined together and taken apart, they will disappear only to resurface in a later part

Hera

By Manuel Mengis

Label: Everest
Released: 2016
Track listing: Eyrie; Flint; Thus gamesters united in friendship / Ungrateful macheath!; Bubo bubo; Hamada/Requiem aeternam; Ranunkel und Viola; Badlands; Meanwhile; Raron/Requiem aeternam; Hey; Now until the break of day.

LE POT: Hera

by Glenn Astarita
September 25, 2016

This Swiss ensemble maximizes the pristine sonic qualities of a church --St. Romain in Raron --that combines a pure, organic soundstage with the complexities of highly expressive jazz and improvisational overtures, including impressionistic interpretations of choice works by famed British classical composer Benjamin Britten. There are occasions when the ensemble projects a thought-provoking ideology of an ...

Hera

By Manuel Mengis

Label: Everest
Released: 2015
Track listing: Eyrie; Flint; Thus Gamester United in Friendship/Ungrateful Macheath!; Bubo Bubo; Hamada/Requiem aeternam; Ranunkel und Viola; Badlands, Meanwhile; Raron/Requiem Aeternam; Hey; Now Until the Break of Day.

Le Pot "hera"

By Manuel Mengis

Label: everestrecords.ch
Released: 2015

Le Pot: Hera

by Vincenzo Roggero
November 20, 2015

Secondo capitolo di una trilogia iniziata con She e che si concluderà con l'episodio intitolato Zede, Hera ci presenta un quartetto svizzero molto interessante per visione musicale e approccio interpretativo. Registrata presso la Burgkirche St. Romanus nel villaggio svizzero di Raron, la musica interagisce con la severa architettura della cinquecentesca chiesa. Ne assorbe semplicità, purezza di ...

Le Pot "she"

By Manuel Mengis

Label: everestrecords.ch
Released: 2014

Fat Son

By Manuel Mengis

Label: Unit Records
Released: 2013

Dulcet Crush

By Manuel Mengis

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. Plant Life; 02. End of a Record Breaker; 03. Bling Bling Cowboy; 04. Luscious Delirium; 05. Sustain the Gain; 06. The Opposite of Spring; 07. How Mario Tut Tut Got Super Wow Wow. Tutte le composizioni sono di Manuel Mengis.

Manuel Mengis Gruppe 6: Dulcet Crush

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 26, 2010

Potremmo soffermarci a discutere a lungo sul fatto che Dulcet Crush non contenga sostanziali elementi di novità. Che oltre quarant'anni fa Miles Davis aveva aperto la porta della contaminazione tra jazz e rock in maniera praticamente insuperabile. Che anni dopo un personaggio come Kip Hanrahan abbia rimescolato le carte introducendo sofisticate strategie produttive e vette assolute ...