Mainz/Dargent/Eraslan: Collaborations & Improvisations Feat. Maurice Louca | Live Recording at Loft

tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro

doors: 8.00 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CET


Collaborations:
Since 2021 Mainz/Dargent/Eraslan have been collaborating with composers and improvisers. The sound of the trio receives impulses from the compositions, which sometimes develop dark sound images from a consistent microtonality, as in the case of Edu Haubensak from Zurich, or move in the border area of composition and improvisation in an electro-acoustic setting, as in the case of Orm Finnendahl from Frankfurt. Projects with composer Oxana Omeltchuk in Cologne and Sandeep Bhagwati in Montreal are in the pipeline for 2023 and 2024. Berlin composer and guitarist Marc Sinan has just completed „Kanlı Dere (Deniz Ne Kadar Güzel Hoş),“ a composition with a very personal reference to the Armenian massacre at the beginning of the 20th century....

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tickets:
regular: 12,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 6,- €uro

doors: 8.00 pm CET
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CET


Collaborations:
Since 2021 Mainz/Dargent/Eraslan have been collaborating with composers and improvisers. The sound of the trio receives impulses from the compositions, which sometimes develop dark sound images from a consistent microtonality, as in the case of Edu Haubensak from Zurich, or move in the border area of composition and improvisation in an electro-acoustic setting, as in the case of Orm Finnendahl from Frankfurt. Projects with composer Oxana Omeltchuk in Cologne and Sandeep Bhagwati in Montreal are in the pipeline for 2023 and 2024. Berlin composer and guitarist Marc Sinan has just completed „Kanlı Dere (Deniz Ne Kadar Güzel Hoş),“ a composition with a very personal reference to the Armenian massacre at the beginning of the 20th century.

In parallel, Mainz/Dargent/Eraslan are forming an electro-acoustic version of the ensemble in some concerts and studio recordings with Cairo-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Maurice Louca in the winter of 2022. With the latter’s Arabic-informed improvisations on microtonally tuned synthesizers and microtonal electric guitar, and an electro-acoustic extended setup of piano, cello and oud, the musical reference spaces here sound more like Krautrock, ambient and noise.

Thus, three strands are currently being created in which the acoustic sonority of the trio can unfold in freely improvised polystylistic spaces, in which musicians implement the different compositional approaches or, extended by guests in electro-acoustic setups, open up reference spaces to Krautrock, Ambient and Noise.

Egyptian musician and composer Maurice Louca recently released his 4th studio album Saet El Hazz (Northern Spy/Sub Rosa, 2021). In addition, there are countless releases for bands and collaborations in which he is involved, including Dwarfs of East Agouza, Karkhana, Lekhfa, Alif and Bikya. Over the past decade, he has toured extensively in Europe, North Africa North Africa and the Arab world and has collaborated with various art forms – such as dance, visual arts and theater.

https://mauricelouca.bandcamp.com/

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