Results for "Samuel Rohrer"

Samuel Rohrer

Simin Tander: No Looking Back

by Ian Patterson
May 25, 2021

When an album receives widespread critical acclaim, generating extensive touring in its wake, the temptation must be to repeat the formula next time around. Especially for artists operating in the niche world of jazz/improvised music, where a sure gig can be something of a holy grail, it would make little sense to fix what ain't broken. ...

Simin Tander: Unfading

by Henning Bolte
February 14, 2021

The newly formed quartet of German-Afghani vocalist Simin Tander with Swiss-Swedish electric bass guitarist Björn Meyer, Tunisian violinist Jasser Haj Youssef and Swiss drummer Samuel Rohrer from Berlin is a remarkable force field of igniting, merging and amplifying energies, temperaments and temperatures. Tander herself has provided 12 compositions here and three times her own lyrics as ...

Simin Tander: Unfading

by Ian Patterson
February 4, 2021

Simin Tander's evolution has been fascinating to behold since her impressive debut Wagma (Neuklang Records, 2011), which featured pianist Jeroen van Vliet, bassist Cord Heineking and Etienne Nillesen on drums. The German/Afghan singer's whispered gravitas and keening lyricism on jazz-filtered chanson, Latin American balladry and her poetic originals was captivating enough, but her non-syllabic vocal improvisations ...

Unfading

By Simin Tander

Label: Jazzhaus Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Hovering Winds; Nargees; Walk Each other Home; Feather/I Am Vertical; Sta Lorey; Walli De Haal Ne Wayee; Unfading; Yar Koh Laro; Deserted; Nana; The Sea Is Near; Breath; Nargees Afterglow; And the Water Stretches Far Away; The Times They Are A Changing.

Continual Decentering

By Samuel Rohrer

Label: Arjunamusic Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Spondee; The Bridge; Fulcrum One; The I-I; The Climber; All Too Human; The Descender; Fulcrum Two; Subterranean Dark; The Fringe; All Too Human Var. ; Body of Ignorance; Plane Waves

Samuel Rohrer: Continual Decentering

by Henning Bolte
May 7, 2020

Berlin-based Swiss drummer Samuel Rohrer's solo album Continual Decentering is a follow-up to his quartet work Dark Star Safari (2019) with Jan Bang, Eivind Aarset and Erik Honoré and to his previous solo album Range of Regularity (2017), both released on his own Arjunamusic label. With drums, percussion, modular synthesizers and assorted electronics Rohrer created a ...

Jan Bang e il Questionario di Proust

by Paolo Peviani
April 2, 2020

Il tratto principale della mia musica Mi interessa lavorare su cose molto concrete come il ritmo, la tessitura, la melodia, l'armonia. Come dice una mia buona amica, la cantante norvegese Sidsel Endresen: se hai tempo, allora tutto il resto alla fine si risolverà. La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano ...

2019: Striking A Balance In Review, Part 1

by Henning Bolte
February 8, 2020

Part 1 | Part 2 Every year the 'Best-of' game is underway again. But, “best of what?" is the immediate question. It's almost impossible for fishes of prey to hunt in a huge herring swarm, or for birds of prey to hunt in those huge budgerigar swarms. 'The best' is a choice from the ...

Dark Star Safari

By Samuel Rohrer

Label: Arjunamusic Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Labyrinthine; Resilient Star; Family Gospel; Child of Folly; Thoughts and Prayers; Mordechai (A Prophecy); November’s Child; White Rose; Youfari.