Results for "Christoph Erb"

Christoph Erb

Phyla music

By Christoph Erb

Label: Veto Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Phyla music; Phyla music (Excerpt).

In Echoes' Shadow

By Christoph Erb

Label: Veto Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Echoes of the Same; When Shadows Don't Follow; When Shadows Walk; When Shadows Dance; When Shadows Dream.

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 ...

Erb / Mayas / Hemingway: Phyla music

by Glenn Astarita
December 12, 2025

The improvisational music captured on Phyla Music, a live recording featuring Christoph Erb (reeds), Magda Mayas (clavinet), and Gerry Hemingway (percussion), documents an evening of profound sonic exploration at The Wurm Club club in Basel. This specific venue, known for its conducive acoustic environment, appears to have inspired the ensemble to reach a heightened ...

Moers Festival Interviews: Tomeka Reid

by Martin Longley
February 7, 2022

The Moers Festival has been operating its Improviser In Residence initiative since 2008, inviting artists every year to dwell in a designated house on Klein Allee, very close to this German city's expansive Schlosspark. The 'Residence' part of the title is quite extreme, as each successive musician is given the keys for a full year's inhabitation, ...

Yellow Live

By Christoph Erb

Label: Veto Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Carotin; Xanthophyll; Lutein; Zeaxanthin.

Christoph Erb / Michael Vatcher: Yellow Live

by John Sharpe
July 7, 2019

At one time a drum and saxophone encounter would always invoke comparisons with the urtext of John Coltrane's Interstellar Space (Impulse, 1974). While that is still a potent model, present day practice encompasses almost every possible mood and temperament. Swiss saxophonist Christoph Erb and formerly expatriate American drummer Michael Vatcher touch on many such wayward territories ...

Christoph Erb / Jim Baker / Frank Rosaly: ...don't buy him a parrot...

by John Sharpe
January 29, 2018

Swiss reedman Christoph Erb has a thing about the Windy City. He first visited in 2011 and discovered fertile ground for collaborations, affirmed by the 14 Chicago-centric releases on his own Veto imprint. Among those hookups is the trio here with pianist Jim Baker and drummer Frank Rosaly, which is also responsible for Parrots Paradise (Veto ...

...don't buy him a parrot...

By Christoph Erb

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: ...don't buy him a parrot...; (parrot, figuring...); for canaries, career opportunities in the mining industry; "It isn't hard to follow a man who carries a bird cage with him wherever he goes...".