Results for "Vera Kappeler"

Vera Kappeler

Kappeler / Zumthor: Herd

by John Sharpe
February 8, 2022

Swiss duo pianist Vera Kappeler and percussionist Peter Conradin Zumthor deliver a haunting program of eleven simple but effective mood pieces. They share a spare aesthetic which marries elements of minimalism, folk, jazz and circus music into an idiosyncratic, but by no means inaccessible, whole. While their previous outing together, Babylon-Suite (ECM, 2014), was inspired by ...

Herd

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Poor Tony; Calanda; Orthopedia Avantgarde; Stube; Diluvi; Trabant; Bontempi No. 2; Örf: Three Toypianos; Umland; Anna.

Christoph Irniger's Open City: Retracing The Tenor's Evolution On Intakt Records

by Friedrich Kunzmann
June 16, 2021

A sound poet of sorts, Swiss tenor saxophonist Christoph Irniger has gained quite a reputation for his lyrical tone and creative penmanship, more often than not responsible for the majority of the memorable repertoire he records and performs. The poetic nature of his music is owed not only to the artists that have influenced him over ...

Babylon-Suite

By Vera Kappeler

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Das erste Tier; Tor II; Tor I; Ne Pidu Ja Do Lesa; Annalisa; Traumgesicht; November; Tor III; Bontempi Var. I; Bontempi Var. II; Tor IV.

Vera Kappeler, Peter Conradin Zumthor: Babylon-Suite

by Alberto Bazzurro
May 22, 2014

Un'eleganza persino un po' estenuata, benché squarciata da intermittenti bagliori, caratterizza questo che è l'album d'esordio del duo svizzero per l'etichetta di Manfred Eicher. Vi trovano posto composizioni per lo più a firma congiunta (ma “Ne Pidu Ja Do Lesa" è un tema tradizionale ucraino) con cui la coppia risponde a una commissione dell'Origen Cultural Festival ...

Nach Slingia

By Vera Kappeler

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Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. Nach Slingia; 02. Nenner; 03. Meine Bar; 04. Sternwarte; 05. Fabienne und Yannick; 06. O-Blues; 07. Augenlied; 08. Hoosen-Johnny; Knock; 09. Ol' Man River.

Vera Kappeler Trio: Nach Slingia

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 22, 2009

Un incipit cinematografico. Un dobro dagli echi western, da duello alla pistola sotto il sole cocente del deserto, si stempera lungo un bordone portato dall'harmonium, fino ad assumere un andamento maestoso. Inizia così, tra timbriche inusuali e contrasti tra generi, questo album del Vera Kappeler Trio. E si prosegue tra lampi di jazz, blues, popolari. Strizzando ...