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WER050, November 2020

KOCH, KOCHER & BADRUTT Archytas Curve Vinyl / Download Hans Koch - Bb Clarinet Jonas Kocher - Accordion Gaudenz Badrutt - Electronics

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Trio existing since 2014, it consists of three major figures of the Swiss improvised music scene. Koch, Kocher & Badrutt brilliantly achieve to play a subtle electro-acoustic improvised music, blending acoustic sources and electronics on a surprising way to create a music full of unpredictable events and of particular beauty. Archytas Curve is their second release.

[...] I am stunned by the immediacy of the improvising. They have developed a special way of playing fast and slow simultaneously. It seems to come from a finely tuned interactive understanding, one that makes me think of the Jimmy Giuffre Trio of the early sixties, but with a different arsenal of shapes and textures. Similar reverence for held sounds, extremes of register, brilliant action that ends with a stuck landing. [...]

John Corbett, excerpt from the liner notes

6 tracks EP / 45 RPM, total time 33:20.
Limited edition of 300 pieces, digital download available.
All tracks recorded live in 2019 in Biel/Bienne (CH), Novi Sad (RS) and Vienna (AT).
Mixed by Vladimir Rašković and Ilia Belorukov, mastered by Alex Huber, cut by Flo Kaufmann.
Released in November 2020 on Wide Ear Records (Zürich, CH).
All music by Koch, Kocher & Badrutt (SUISA).
Liner notes by John Corbett.
Graphic design by Christoph Lanz.

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