Budapest’s pioneering free music concert series, JazzaJ has reached the end of its five year plan. It’s time to be captivated, give the masters a listen, and celebrate the basic practice of human existence. Improvisation.
The legendary AMM (the recently re-formed trio of Keith Rowe, John Tilbury and Eddie Prévost) openes the celebratory programme. The band has been probing the most puritan versions of joint music-making since 1965. The original line-up included Lou Gare (saxophone) and composer Cornelius Cardew. Music free from jazz formulas or other preconceptions is the goal they espouse to this day. Prévost, one of the genre’s most radical theoreticians, called their sound built on the dialogue between man and material ’meta-music.’ He suggested it be played as if it were the first concert in the history of the world. How does a band that could be called historical, play music without a history?
AMM
Keith Rowe – electric guitar
John Tilbury – piano
Eddie Prévost – Percussion
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One of main goals for founding JazzaJ was for artists otherwise composing in isolation, to meet in the free space of improvisation. It has become JazzaJ’s tradition in the last five years to give musicians who have never played together a space to do so.
Backer-Somló-Bolcsó-Hock-Porteleki quintet, performing after AMM, is an example of this tradition. The four members, all from Budapest, have worked together in several bands (Dorota, Hiketnunk, 12z, rubik.erno.quintet), but never before in this combination. All five have a strong presence on stage, and play authentic music. Building on each member’s personal stories, folk music, free jazz, avantgarde and electro-acoustic improvisation come together in an original harmony.
Andreas Backer, the non-singer singer of the Norwegian scene, hooks into this organic basis. A technique similar to that of Siedsel Endresen comes with more abstract thinking, so Backer’s vocal sounds participate at the same level as any of the instruments.
Andreas Backer - voice
Bolcsó Bálint - electronics
Somló Dávid – electronic guitar
Hock Ernő – bass
Porteleki Áron – drums
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In the second half of the evening, Andris Halmos and the Dupla Clave provides improvised elegies of hiphop and afro grooves, and the event closes with the essential JazzaJ contributor, Dávid Pap aka. DJ Popdavec.
Halmos András - drums
Boros Levente - drums
Sági Viktor – electric guitar
Hock Ernő – bass guitar
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Before the concerts, Somló Dávid Mandala performance sound installation prepared viewers to absorb the sounds and the intensive human scene. (http://davidsomlo.com/Mandala)
The legendary AMM (the recently re-formed trio of Keith Rowe, John Tilbury and Eddie Prévost) openes the celebratory programme. The band has been probing the most puritan versions of joint music-making since 1965. The original line-up included Lou Gare (saxophone) and composer Cornelius Cardew. Music free from jazz formulas or other preconceptions is the goal they espouse to this day. Prévost, one of the genre’s most radical theoreticians, called their sound built on the dialogue between man and material ’meta-music.’ He suggested it be played as if it were the first concert in the history of the world. How does a band that could be called historical, play music without a history?
AMM
Keith Rowe – electric guitar
John Tilbury – piano
Eddie Prévost – Percussion
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One of main goals for founding JazzaJ was for artists otherwise composing in isolation, to meet in the free space of improvisation. It has become JazzaJ’s tradition in the last five years to give musicians who have never played together a space to do so.
Backer-Somló-Bolcsó-Hock-Porteleki quintet, performing after AMM, is an example of this tradition. The four members, all from Budapest, have worked together in several bands (Dorota, Hiketnunk, 12z, rubik.erno.quintet), but never before in this combination. All five have a strong presence on stage, and play authentic music. Building on each member’s personal stories, folk music, free jazz, avantgarde and electro-acoustic improvisation come together in an original harmony.
Andreas Backer, the non-singer singer of the Norwegian scene, hooks into this organic basis. A technique similar to that of Siedsel Endresen comes with more abstract thinking, so Backer’s vocal sounds participate at the same level as any of the instruments.
Andreas Backer - voice
Bolcsó Bálint - electronics
Somló Dávid – electronic guitar
Hock Ernő – bass
Porteleki Áron – drums
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In the second half of the evening, Andris Halmos and the Dupla Clave provides improvised elegies of hiphop and afro grooves, and the event closes with the essential JazzaJ contributor, Dávid Pap aka. DJ Popdavec.
Halmos András - drums
Boros Levente - drums
Sági Viktor – electric guitar
Hock Ernő – bass guitar
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Before the concerts, Somló Dávid Mandala performance sound installation prepared viewers to absorb the sounds and the intensive human scene. (http://davidsomlo.com/Mandala)
