Jazz Articles about Elio Amberg

ErbtMäderAmBerg? & Lehn: In Echoes' Shadow

by Glenn Astarita
December 25, 2025

The Swiss German quartet ErbMäderAmBerg? & Thomas Lehn offers a striking and complex exploration of electroacoustic improvisation with In Echoes' Shadow,, released in May 2025 on Lucerne-based Veto Records. The ensemble brings together three of Switzerland's most adventurous bass clarinetists--Christoph Erb (Veto Records founder), Elio Amberg, and Niklaus Mader--alongside German electronic music veteran Thomas Lehn on analog synthesizer. Lehn, a classically-trained pianist turned synthesizer specialist, has a decades-long pedigree, having worked with figures like John Butcher and Marcus Schmickler, ensuring ...