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Johannes Ammon

Born: 1951

Born in 1951, German violinist, improvisor, and actor JOHANNES AMMON’s initial musical studies began in 1968 at the conservatory in Nürnberg and continued into München und Berlin Musikhochschule. 

After working in Europe with assorted chamber music ensembles and symphony orchestras, Ammon immigrated to the US in 1976. There he continued performing traditional Western art music and began collaborating with an assortment of world folk musicians and avant-garde improvisors, including percussionist Takaaki Masuko and bassist Andrew Blickenderfer, with whom he co-founded the Boston-based free music trio, Sabana Blanca, best known for their much-lauded improvised accompaniments to silent film screenings offered by the Harvard Film Archives.

Senzai Ichigu

By Takaaki Masuko

Label: NativeWit Productions
Released: 2022
Track listing: Who Is Here?; How'd We Get There?; What Is This?; Why?; Where Are We Going?; Why Not?; When Is Now

The Last Laugh

By Sabana Blanca

Label: NativeWit Productions
Released: 2024
Track listing: Great Noise of the City (For Ruttmann’s Berlin, Symphony of a Great City); A Prince Has Arrived (For Reiniger’s Cinderella); Seeking the Foot (For Reiniger’s Cinderella); Circling (For Deren’s A Study in Choreography for Camera)

6th Sense Living Room

By Sabana Blanca

Label: NativeWit Productions
Released: 2023
Track listing: Touch the Symmetry; Taste of Nail; Hearing Mystery; Smell of Air; Ambiguous Vision

Sabana Blanca