Projects
GANELIN TRIO PRIORITY
trio photos by Matthias Creutziger
Vyacheslav Ganelin - piano, synthesizer, percussion
Petras Vysniauskas - soprano saxophone
Klaus Kugel - drums, percussion
Website incl. printable quote sheet, concert dates, etc.: www.ganelintrio.com
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" ... and they’re still playing highly interactive, tensile music." - The New York Times, June, 2007
"The new Ganelin Trio is without comparison in European music." - from the DVD liner notes by Wolf Kampmann, Berlin, 2006
"The Ganelin Trio Priority played a staggering set on the penultimate evening of the June, 2007 Vision Festival, a continuous and constantly morphing shock-and-awe campaign in which all national and international demarcations were obliterated." - Marc Medwin, www.allaboutjazz.com 2007, USA
upcoming CD on SoLyd Records: "GANELIN TRIO PRIORITY - VISIONS"
[Live at the Vision Festival XII, New York City, 2007]
UNDIVIDED
Waclaw Zimpel - bass clarinet, clarinet, tarogato
Bobby Few - piano
Mark Tokar - double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums
UNDIVIDED - music about different levels of human being’s consciousness.
The way of organizing sounds and time in Zimpel’s compositions deals with free jazz tradition, folk music of different cultures and classical music heritage.
The project is also available with guests such as Perry Robinson (cl), Robert Kusiolek (accordeon) and Louie Belogenis (ts, ss).
new CD: "THE PASSION", MultiKulti, Poland.
Upcoming tour in Poland October-06/15 2010 ! Booking contact for Poland: Aleksandra Trzaska, +48 601 208 002, ola.trzaska@kilogram.pl
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Project website: www.undivided.pl www.waclawzimpel.pl
PETRAS VYSNIAUSKAS - POKSIS
photo by Ute H. Kaiser
Petras Vysniauskas - soprano saxophone
Juozas Milasius - e-guitar
Vladimir Volkov - bass
Klaus Kugel - drums
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"Soprano saxophonist Petras Vysniauskas, a Lithuanian, is I believe one of the most profoundly original musicians concentrating on that instrument -- his jagged phrases expanded on determinedly original intervals and his sound is powerful -- stronger and more pointed than Sam River's has become, for instance, more densely concentrated than the late Steve Lacy's, if not polyphonic in the manner of Evan Parker." - Howard Mandel, 2007.
Last concerts: EUROPHONICS 2006 - BALTIKUM (WDR), tour in Germany, Free Jazz Festival Prague 2007
Project website: www.petrasvysniauskas.com www.milasius.com
ANDRÉ-TOKAR-KUGEL
André - voice
Mark Tokar - contrabass
Klaus Kugel - percussions, sound objects
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This unique trio utilizes extended vocal and instrumental technique, archaic sound objects, and ritual percussion within free metric structures. The resultant soundscapes are otherworldly and rich with a sense of timelessness. Their music is best experienced in performance spaces such as churches or concert halls where the sound stage lends itself to an atmosphere conducive to silence and resonance. Each concert is a singular event exclusively comprised of self composed pieces.
---> Upcoming cd "VARPAI" on Nemu Records !
Project website: www.myspace.com www.andre.lt marktokar.info
DICK/ELLIS/KUGEL
Robert Dick - flutes
Lisle Ellis - bass & circuitry
Klaus Kugel - drums, percussions
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Robert Dick, Lisle Ellis and Klaus Kugel are three singular creators whose collective effort has resulted in a remarkable trio. In even as varied an epoch as our current one, where creative musicians now regularly and easily traverse seemingly disparate styles, there are few ensembles that impress as convincingly in their ability to bridge idioms, blend the sonic textures and timbres of the ancient with present sensibilities of technology, and fire a listener’s imagination with possibilities of future music. The international complexion of the trio - American, Canadian, and German - and their broad array of musical experience as composers, interpreters, leaders, and instrumental as well as technological innovators results in collective creations that are kaleidoscopic in nature.
YATOKU
photo by Evgeny Eremin
Yuri Yaremchuk - soprano & tenor saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet
Mark Tokar - double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums
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"... the concert of the trio was considered to be the gem of the festival."
- Kiev Weekly (about the first concerts Dec-2006, Jazz Festival Bezz (Ukraine/Poland).
Last festival concerts: "15th Forum Of Publishers 2008" Lviv (Ukraine), Festival "Architecture Of Movement 2008", Yaroslavl (Russia), NOZART XIV 2010, Cologne (Germany)
Project website: yuriyaremtchuk.wordpress.com
WINDSLEEPERS
photo by Nele Gothe
Christine Clément - vocals, trumpet
Roby Glod - alto & soprano saxophone
Stefan Heidtmann - keyboards
Peter Schönfeld - electric double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums, percussion
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"La Fiancée du Pirate is a timeless album which is only pure remarkable music." - Dr. Ana Isabel Ordonez, Jazzreview, USA, 2005
Reviews : www.jazzreview.com , www.allaboutjazz.com and www.progressia.net
Project website: www.myspace.com windsleepers.shaa-music.de
STEFAN HEIDTMANN PROJECT
photos by Cees Van De Ven
Reiner Winterschladen - trumpet
Gerd Dudek - tenor & soprano saxophone
Stefan Heidtmann - piano, composition
Dieter Manderscheid - double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums
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"The Desire for Sound - (...), that´s an illustrious group. And it would not be remotely exaggerated to claim that there isn´t much better in German jazz. Or in Europe." (Frankfurter Rundschau, 2001)
The Stefan Heidtmann Project played 2002 at the Euro Jazz Festival Mexico City & and toured in Mexico.
The cd "blue sand and green sky" (shaa-music) was awarded 5 stars in the German magazine FONOFORUM.
Project website: www.reviews.heidtmann.info
KAN
photo M. Tominga & K. Kugel by Ute H. Kaiser
Makiko Tominaga - butoh dance
Petras Vysniauskas - soprano saxophone
Klaus Kugel - percussions, sound objects ... (Japan, Lithuania, Germany)
Last performances: SilentArt festival Bochum 2007, Germany & Museum fuer Ostasiatische Kunst / Lange Nacht der Koelner Museen 2008, Germany
MICHEL PILZ / ITARU OKI - QUARTET
Michel Pilz - bassclarinet
Itaru Oki - trumpets, flutes
Christian Ramond - double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums
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"Michel Pilz, whose sole instrument is the bassclarinet, has carried the Eric Dolphy legacy into the Free Jazz Era through the Globe Unity Orchestra. He is a master of contradictory musical lines, flowing from the strong and furious, to the soft and warm" (Joachim Ernst Behrendt) . The french "Jazz Magazine" wrote about the trumpet-player Itaru Oki that he is one of the most Interesting and most representative "new music players" made in Japan.
GLOD/RAMOND/KUGEL & ROBERTSON
Herb Robertson - trumpets
Roby Glod - alto & soprano saxophones
Christian Ramond - double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums
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"Glod’s alto and soprano are a drizzle of crystalline notes, bunched with massive and coloured cadences and dissonant floods, making his sound « mineral» with a majestic hallmark." - JazzReview.com
“Herb Robertson has a voracious appetite for the jazz past, with an eye toward the future” - The New York Times
MOONDOC/CAMPBELL/GREENE/KUGEL
photo by Nick Ruechel
Jemeel Moondoc - alto saxophone
Roy Campbell - trumpet, fluegelhorn, flute
Hilliard Greene - double bass
Klaus Kugel - drums
First Europe Tour was April 2008! Contact: European Booking
Gunnar Pfabe, phone: +48 58 622 64 18, email: gpfabe@aol.com