kuratiert von Christian Wolfarth

Yuko Oshima
Yuko Oshima has one foot in Strasbourg, where she has been living since 2000, and the other firmly in her native land. The solo performance she has developed in a whole series of concerts combines Japanese influences and ongoing experiments. She plays a sort of music she describes as indescribable. But we will nevertheless make an attempt. Her solos draw sustenance from jazz, rock, and traditional music: stormy drums and delicate percussions. Her mother tongue rings out to echo her tom-toms and cymbals. Each word of Japanese, sung or whispered, becomes the backbone of a complex, magnificent, sensitive rhythm. Tensions lead to outbursts. With immediacy, in the absolute here and now, airiness seizes hold of the groove and beating of the sound space. (PointBreak, for Sons d'hiver)

http://yukooshima.com 


Toma Gouband
Toma Gouband's instrument is seemingly simple: a horizontal bass drum, whose surface is scattered with tiny bells, blocks of wood, branches and twigs, and a collection of stones from around the world. Pebbles are rolled on the ground, and in place of cymbals - more twigs and stones. Gouband does not add to this assortment of things - neither a computer nor any other electronics; and yet, he creates music which sounds like the most tender, complicated and delicately nuanced electroacoustic pieces, which at the same time retains a deep connection to the most profound and arcane insights about the relationship between music and the natural world. The way Gouband succeeds in this is through pulse. This entire apparatus is animated by an interior pulsation, born from years of research into the possibility of acting and playing with several superimposed simultaneous internal clocks, several mysterious cycles, from which he creates polyrhythmic patterns, weaving sound tissues which are threaded into beautiful temporal fabrics, intertwined with colorful radiant motifs, governed by rules that seems to have been transmitted only to the most devoted of initiates. (Musrara Festival Jerusalem)

www.tomagouband.com 


Roger Turner
Turner has been working as an improvising drummer-percussionist since the early 1970's, collaborating in numerous international established and ad hoc configurations. He remains one of those players who have collectively redefined the language of contemporary percussion.

Solo work, intense acoustic duo collaborations, work with electro-acoustic ensembles & open-form song, extensive work with dance and visual artists, plus specific jazz-based ensembles have brought collaborations with many of the most interesting European and international musicians and performers from Annette Peacock to Phil Minton, Charles Gayle to Lol Coxhill, Derek Bailey to Otomo Yoshihide, Alan Silva to Keith Rowe, Cecil Taylor to Yuji Takahashi, Josef Nadj to Min Tanaka, Toshinori Kondo to Roy Campbell,  etc.etc.

He has toured and played concerts worldwide: Sydney to Svalbard in the Arctic, Tokyo to Belfast, New York to Beirut, Sao Paulo to Auckland, Mexico City to Macau, Okinawa to the oyster room Whitstable...etc.

www.turners-site.com

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