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Skorupa 5 "Sonic Feast"
Austria, Germany, Estonia
Leonhard Skorupa - reeds
Silke Eberhard - reeds
Kirke Karja - piano, keys
Robert Landfermann - bass
Leif Berger - drums
Commission from Jazzfestival Saalfelden for Leonhard Skorupa
From its Proto-Indo-European root a "feast" is at least sacred, maybe even divine. For the opening of this year's jazz festival, award-winning instrumentalist, composer, and arranger Leonhard Skorupa from Vienna composed and conceived a blessed new work “with a broad arc, in the tension between structure and improvisational freedom." With a particular focus on various clarinets, which will be played by the "young rebel of Austrian jazz" (Ö1) himself, as well as his esteemed colleague Silke Eberhard, plus Estonian pianist Kirke Karja on piano and Rhodes, bassist Robert Landfermann and drummer Leif Berger this quintet will serve up their programmatic "sonic feast." In addition to graphic/non-linear sight-reading notations and Skorupa-style hand-signal cues, sonic interjections and distortions from the mixing desk will also come into play. For Skorupa, “the element of surprise is very important, as in my previous work." Hallelujah!
Leonhard Skorupa - reeds
Silke Eberhard - reeds
Kirke Karja - piano, keys
Robert Landfermann - bass
Leif Berger - drums
Commission from Jazzfestival Saalfelden for Leonhard Skorupa
From its Proto-Indo-European root a "feast" is at least sacred, maybe even divine. For the opening of this year's jazz festival, award-winning instrumentalist, composer, and arranger Leonhard Skorupa from Vienna composed and conceived a blessed new work “with a broad arc, in the tension between structure and improvisational freedom." With a particular focus on various clarinets, which will be played by the "young rebel of Austrian jazz" (Ö1) himself, as well as his esteemed colleague Silke Eberhard, plus Estonian pianist Kirke Karja on piano and Rhodes, bassist Robert Landfermann and drummer Leif Berger this quintet will serve up their programmatic "sonic feast." In addition to graphic/non-linear sight-reading notations and Skorupa-style hand-signal cues, sonic interjections and distortions from the mixing desk will also come into play. For Skorupa, “the element of surprise is very important, as in my previous work." Hallelujah!
