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Blaer

KALI Trio: The Playful Abstract

by David Bruggink
March 25, 2025

Nik Bärtsch's Ronin Rhythm Records has become a go-to label for hypnotic groove enthusiasts. Established in 2006, its artists share a focus on uncommon time signatures and post-minimalist composition but interpret them in strikingly different ways. For example, Blaer leans towards the more restrained, stately and steady, building to powerful catharsis, similar to the Colin Vallon Trio; ...

Pure

By Maja Nydegger

Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Hover; Gold I; Pure; Lotus; Gold II; Decay; Utopia; Gold III.

Blaer: Pure

by Dan McClenaghan
December 14, 2023

Swiss pianist Maja Nydegger sounds like a musical first cousin to Nik Bartsch. With his groups Ronin and Mobile, pianist Bartsch create intriguing ritual groove music and Zen funk--descriptors Bartsch has used for his style--stirred up with modern classical sounds. Nydegger, with her group Blaer, crafts a similar mode of expression on her fourth album, Pure, ...

Yellow

By Blaer

Label: Ronin Rhythm Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Yellow; The Unknown; Years; Kosmo; Epilog; All We Need; Artkis.

Blaer: Yellow

by Mike Jurkovic
March 2, 2020

With a whispery shifting undertow, Swiss pianist-composer Maja Nydegger constructs her vivid, musical imaginings of Yellow on the memories of melodies perceived and experienced in other lifetimes, in other dimensions, in other states of humanness. Some, like the quietly sensual title track and its immediate successor, “The Unknown," expand towards full consciousness slowly, methodically urging you ...

Blaer

By Blaer

Label: Morpheus Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Welcome; You Told Me; Brian; Waiting For Snow; Without; Deep Blue; Erased.

Blaer: Blaer

by Bruce Lindsay
April 12, 2015

Led by pianist and composer Maja Nydegger, Blaer is a jazz quintet from Switzerland. This self-titled album is the band's debut release--a collection that establishes the band as an ensemble of real promise, with early signs of a distinctive and individual sound emerging. Blaer operates on the calmer, more languid end of the jazz ...