Hans Lüdemann "Rooms" CD

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Jazz de Cologne


Hans Lüdemann Rooms “Rooms ” BMC Records 2010
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66078006/Rooms.7z



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Hans Lüdemann Rooms – a trio based around Cologne pianist Hans Lüdemann with formidable partners
from Germany and France – exclusively for the Fischermann Agency’s Specials. The group will be on a European and worldwide
 tour February 4 to 24 and in the fall of 2013 as well as on request for festivals and special events.
They will be presenting current material as well as their first CD Rooms, which appeared on BMC Records in 2010.

Please download and listen to the CD “Rooms” of Hans Lüdemann Rooms http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66078006/Rooms.7z

Hans Lüdemann Rooms (D/F)

“Rooms”, BMC RECORDS   2010
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/66078006/Rooms.7z


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2013
on demand

04 – 24 February

available !!
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summer

Hamburg/D, Elbjazzfestival tbc
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23 September – 06 October

available !!
26 - 09 Singen/D
available !!
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2014
on demand

Option

Graz/A
Raab/A
Uster/CH
Stans/CH
Darmstadt/D
Erfurt/D
Freiberg/D
Heidelberg/D
Helmbrechts/D
Leer/D
Mannheim/D
Reut/D
Schwäbisch – Hall/D
Syke/D
Dublin/IR
Maribor/SI

Agentur-Info

Hans Lüdemann’s spectrum of colors knows no black and white limits. For example, he has expanded his keyboard with the aid of
virtual means by quite a few intermediate tones. Indeed, if we ran his current trio’s music – 10 of 13 pieces from the CD Rooms
stem from his pen – through a musical prism, it would be broken down into its individual spectral colors and result in the following,
itemized: In addition to the distinct jazz variables of eccentric blue notes (e.g., “The Day You Are Here”), swinging-iridescent up-
tempo lines (“Orientierung”), dynamic free passages, Afro-American claves (“Steine”) and meditative-trancelike rhythm (“Love
Confession (Roma 2)”), modulated quarter-tone escapades appear electronically in all shadings and abrasive sound interferences
between the musicians, who all perform excellently.

ALL three evoke and provoke accents with their instruments, without playing in the foreground of the overall sound. In the unison
and counterparts of his bass lines, Sébastien Boisseau often seems like an additional second left hand of the pianist (“To Be or Not to Have
(Roma 1)”). And, in his freely hovering meter with subtle grooves, Dejan Terzic plays around the percussive attacks of the
alienated grand piano, rich in overtones (“Le Balaphon Blanc et Noir”). But even more permanent than the magical unity of the
supporting creative flow between the actors is the principle within the extremely complex and still precise musical communication.

Like experienced street workers, this trio grapples with, both collectively and authentically, audible and non-audible areas of jazz
(“Baby”). For example, “Prinz” is a version of the jazz standard “Someday My Prince Will Come” with altered chords, as Hans
Lüdemann revealed to me. All the titles are colorful tonal images full of power and rich in ideas, deeply embossed by Lüdemann’s
African vein of rhythmic shifts, including an energetic substructure. It doesn’t matter whether a straight-nervous punk rock drive
(“Disturbed”) or a chanson-like Eisler melody (“Über den Selbstmord) is what they’re looking for. The atmospheric space of inter-
action bears bizarre surprises and shows enjoyable rough edges (“Jukebox”). This trio has quite a bit of cool jazzy know-how. On
top we submerge into the atmosphere of quarter tones in a “still” partially foreign, but fascinating world of melodic, harmonic
indifferences, whose color psychology provides much unconscious to our astonishment and discovery.

Hans Lüdemann has found a congenial partner in the Hungarian label BMC Records from Budapest, which has supported his artist
development since 2010. Thanks to financial assistance from the Art Foundation NRW, a 5-CD box was released, Die Kunst der Trios 1– 5,
to great critical acclaim; the box contains different multifaceted and fascinating trios from the years 2007 and 2008. To which, for example,
Michael Laages from the Northern German Radio Broadcasters writes: “Lüdemann is very lively and the five different trio formations, all
(and this is what makes them so charming) recorded as if in a sound laboratory at the same location, live in Cologne’s ‘Loft’ and always
under the same recording conditions of a technical and artistic nature, they impressively survey the horizon of musical possibilities, as
they are in this classical and incredibly intimate jazz constellation … So much richness at once, and it belongs among the most animating
of challenges of this encounter of the special kind, in this excess of variety, for the listener to investigate pianist Lüdemann’s very own qualities.
It is, however, fascinating enough that a distinguished musician “fits” in so many different sound spaces – Lüdemann makes a plea for
the value of partnership-based counterparts in jazz, whether in entirely free or compositionally bound communication. That too belongs
to the magic of this music: that we are an other again and again, whenever we encounter others.”

Among all the excellent trios of this CD box, perhaps Hans Lüdemann’s Rooms bears most strongly the aura of the secretive interaction
 that needs to be deciphered. And the best place for that is live at the object of desire.



Instrumentation
Hans Lüdemann ... piano, virtual piano
Sébastien Boisseau ... double bass
Dejan Terzic ... drums, percussion

Press

CD
“… a group … that impresses on account of their solidarity, their power and their creativity. Equally open and structured, abstract and playful, avant-garde and seductive, their mixture of music treats and recombines everything that nourishes today’s jazz: free improvisation, complex harmonies, elements of ethnic music, electronic grooves … no routine is possible for this trio, which always plays at the outer limit, eager to find and explore out new territories. But the icing on the cake is the completely new use they make of the “virtual piano.” … a totally unique music with high aspirations, decidedly different and nonetheless breathtaking jazz.  A revelation.”
Jazzman

Press
„Complex and unheard - the jazz this trio plays has something futuristic, opening joyful and relieving perspectives“
DNA

„Moments of delicacy and lyricism meet with ecstatic outbursts, when Lüdemann can hardly keep on his piano stool. The intensity of the concert fascinated an audience that was willing to follow the group’s musical journey that impressed again and again with Lüdemann’s unique piano technique.“
Mittelbadische Presse


Live
“A concert with complex sounds and full of energy … the headstrong pianist Hans Lüdemann shows that he belongs to those musicians who are searching for entirely new tonal colors … the Cologne-based musician goes his own way, exceeds the limits of all genres and astonished with his unusual way of playing. He calls back upon classical traditions and incorporates African polyrhythms in his music and attempts, in addition, to expand the sound spectrum with electronic additions. With his current trio “Rooms,” he tries, as the name of the trio implies, to open rooms, to find new freedom. This is all embedded in compositional structures … subtle structures are developed by all three musicians into complex sound tapestries bursting with energy; the most differing moods arise in how they play together and then become an entirely independent trio sound, which can, at times, be poetic, but also dramatic and explosive. This unusual and inventive music of the Lüdemann trio enthralled the audience in Jazzkeller.”
Südkurier

The trio ‘Rooms’ is a formation of three individualists who have taken off in search of new perceptions in collective interaction. They have not grown stiff in an aesthetic piano trio convention, but rather open new spaces and break down barriers within their compositions, which anyone can understand and enjoy.
www.culturejazz.fr

Highlights

Rooms

Budapest/Hungary, Jazzfestival
Strasbourg/France, Jazzdor
Cologne-Bonn/Germany, Vive le Jazz - Festival
Caen/France, Conservatoire
Zürich/Switzerland, Moods
Dortmund/Germany, Domicil

Hans Lüdemann

Copenhagen/Denmark, Jazz Festival
Munich/Germany, Münchener Klaviersommer
Nancy/France, Nancy Jazz Pulsations
Basel/Switzerland, Offbeat-Festival
Berlin/Germany, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Cologne/Germany, Musiktriennale
Leipzig/Germany, Bachfest
Prague/Czech Republic, Philharmonie
St. Louis/Senegal, Jazzfestival
Harare/Zimbabwe, HIFA Festival
Accra/Ghana, National Theatre
Havana/Cuba, Cubadisco/Teatro Amadeo Roldan
Montreal/Canada, Vues d Afrique
Delhi/India, Jazz Yatra
Barcelona/Spain, Mostra di Jazz

Awards

Die Kunst des Trios nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award 2012
"OUI" from Culture Jazz for Die Kunst des Trios and Rooms
"Revelation" from Jazzman for Rooms

Discography
Die Kunst des Trios, BMC RECORDS, 2012 (5er CD-Box)
Rooms, BMC RECORDS, 2010

www.HansLuedemann.de




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