"To all intents and purposes this line-up resembles a jazz piano trio accompanying a lead vocalist but this project has helped to turn our world upside down. These musicians are all equally interactive with each other. As a collective, they work extremely well together, listening, searching and reflecting each other’s ideas to make their music. I was drawn into this ensemble’s sound which has both an orchestral and a chamber fabric and the superb high quality of the recording helps as well. Enjoy!" -Veryan Weston, December 2021
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There are musicians and artists who never conform to any type of categorization and with their full body of work vehemently oppose any kind of expectation imposed on them. One of these intrepid musicians is Austrian singer and vocal/voice artist Agnes Heginger (1973), who without doubt belongs in this category of musicians. Looking over the multitude and diversity of projects that she has been involved in over the past years, it is clear that since her early years as a budding talent in Vienna, she has been one of the most diverse singers in all of Austria. /
agnesheginger.com
Austrian pianist, improviser and composer Elisabeth Harnik (1970) has created a multi-faceted body of work by blurring genre boundaries through various collaborations in the field of improvised music, interdisciplinary projects and contemporary compositional works. As an improviser she works within an electro-acoustic inspired sound-world, using specific preparations and extended techniques while pushing the limitations of the piano. Her performances draw from physicality and introspection, intuitive playing and high precision. /
elisabeth-harnik.at
Former saxophonist and currently cellist Uli Winter (19xx) is one of the leading voices on the Austrian improvised music scene: from 1983 until 1995 he had played the saxophone in various free jazz bands and improvisational ensembles, but since 1994 has been playing excluseively the cello. According to his ars poetica, the noise, sound surfaces, clusters are used as equal means to create music and lead to a very sensitive inner and outer tension, just like Ernst Jandl means in the second stanza of Music. He's a member of Plasmic Quartet, Trio Broccoli and Now Trio!, and has recorded with artists such as Katharina Klement, Villy Paraskevopoulos and Josef Novotny.
released April 22, 2024
Agnes Heginger: voice
Elisabeth Harnik: piano
Uli Winter: cello
Fredi Pröll: drums
All music by Agnes Heginger, Elisabeth Harnik, Uli Winter & Fredi Pröll (AKM)
Recorded live in concert by Norbert Benesch at Porgy & Bess in Vienna, Austria on 9/5/2021
Mixed and mastered by Josef Novotny (
novotny.klingt.org)
Sleeve notes Veryan Weston
Cover artwork by Maria Frodl (
mariafrodl.com)
Photo by Georg Cizek-Graf
Graphic design by László Szakács
Produced by László Juhász
Thanks to Christoph Huber, Georg Cizek-Graf, Maria Frodl, Josef Novotny, and special thanks to Veryan Weston
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