Take the Mol Train: Andreas Schaerer Meets Arte Quartett & Wolfgang Zwiauer (Ch) - Bmc Album Debut Concert at Opus Jazz Club

Since their inception in 1995, Beat Hofstetter, Sascha Armbruster, Andrea Formenti and Beat Kappeler have reached a unique position with the ARTE Quartett travelling between the worlds of contemporary classical music, free improvisation and jazz. The four have kept fathoming stylistic borderlands and worked closely with a rich mix of composing performers such as Urs Leimgruber, Terry Riley, Michael Riessler, Lucas Niggli, Tim Berne, Fred Frith and Pierre Favre.

Andreas Schaerer, the 37 year old singer, composer, bandleader and co-founder of the Berner Jazzwerkstatt follows this impressive line of musicians. Using the term 'singer' in Andreas’ case is an understatement. Really he is a vocal acrobat who enriches the international jazz scene with his daring feats. Coloraturas, crooner singing, wild scats, rap, and colourful sound painting - there is nothing he won’t try to master or include in his repertoire....

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Since their inception in 1995, Beat Hofstetter, Sascha Armbruster, Andrea Formenti and Beat Kappeler have reached a unique position with the ARTE Quartett travelling between the worlds of contemporary classical music, free improvisation and jazz. The four have kept fathoming stylistic borderlands and worked closely with a rich mix of composing performers such as Urs Leimgruber, Terry Riley, Michael Riessler, Lucas Niggli, Tim Berne, Fred Frith and Pierre Favre.

Andreas Schaerer, the 37 year old singer, composer, bandleader and co-founder of the Berner Jazzwerkstatt follows this impressive line of musicians. Using the term 'singer' in Andreas’ case is an understatement. Really he is a vocal acrobat who enriches the international jazz scene with his daring feats. Coloraturas, crooner singing, wild scats, rap, and colourful sound painting - there is nothing he won’t try to master or include in his repertoire.

In the project, Perpetual Delirium, Andreas focuses his attention on 'classical' composition and sound, as well as, issues around intonation. For almost a year, he studied the characteristics of the individual playing style of the four musicians and their saxophones. As a result he managed to integrate the wide range of his inimitable vocalising with the equally colourful spectrum of the saxophones. Andreas refers to and engages with music history in order to model a new cosmos of sound, where Gregorian chant, 'free-tonal' passages, phrases remembering György Ligeti or serial patterns, Baroque counterpoint and interlaced fugue themes, dramatic opera gestures, melodies from the Romantic era, bluesy scat singing, soul riffs, free improvisations and Alpine sounds with Caribbean rhythms interchange. Not to be underestimated is the contribution made by the groove- and improvisation-experienced bass player, Wolfgang Zwiauer. He adds a vibrancy that enriches Schaerer’s compositions with rhythmic and harmonic variations.

(Excerpts from the booklet of the new BMC Records release Perpetual Delirium – Andreas Schaerer meets ARTE Quartett & Wolfgang Zwiauer, BMC CD 214)

Tickets are available for 1500 HUF on the spot, in the national JEGYPONT network of Interticket, and at jegy.hu.

Please don't forget your table reservation, as seating at the Opus jazz Club can only be guaranteed in this case. Tel: (+36 1) 216 7894.

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