Stockhausen / Ladopoulos/ Rakopoulos/ Amiris/
Andersen/ Héral
Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens
2012, May 10 / 20:30 Main Stage
Markus Stockhausen: trumpet
Antonis Ladopoulos: saxophone
Vasilis Rakopoulos: guitar
Sami Amiris: piano
Arild Andersen: bass
Patrice Héral: percussion
In 2010, Markus
Stockhausen along with Antonis
Ladopoulos, Vasilis
Rakopoulos & Sami
Amiris opened the Onassis Cultural Centre’s music season, doing
so extramurally, at the Goethe Institut, because the OCC building on
Syngrou Avenue had still to be inaugurated.
The combo performed a
kaleidoscopic, multidimensional programme which began with
Katolophyromai [“I lament so much"] the title of a musical
fragment from the first stasimon of Euripides’ Orestes,
and ended in an improvised sequences of phrases, rhythms and
harmonies which defies classification. Theirs was a complex
soundscape of extreme but homogenized breadth, ranging from antique
chromatic tetrachords to attempts at a contemporary idiom melodic,
human and free of everything that has not withstood the test of
time.
This year, the group returns with two additional members,
both of them leading lights on the contemporary music scene: the
veteran bassist Arild
Andersen, who helped make the term ‘European jazz’
meaningful, and the rising star, Patrice
Héral, a drummer and percussionist whose extraordinary range of
interests makes him extraordinarily sought after.
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