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Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin and George Lewis

George Lewis, trb, electronics
Harald Kimmig, vl
Daniel Studer, b
Alfred Zimmerlin, vc

All tracks recorded live at Kunstraum Walcheturm , April 8 2018 by at Moritz Wetter.
Mastered by Peter Pfister.
Liner Notes by Art Lange.
Cover photo by Hagen Stockhausen.
Produced by SRF2 Kultur, Trio Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin and Hat Hut Records Ltd.
Producer: Werner X. Uehlinger.

label: HatHut, ezz-thetics 1010, 2019

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liner notes:

…Inviting the multifaceted George Lewis to collaborate with them allows the trio to expand their perspective without modifying or compromising it. His expansive résumé is, or should be, well-known, documenting his creativity in jazz, Free Jazz, non-idiomatic improvisation, and electronic programming and composing. In this situation, his subtle electronics color the music as an organic entity; it is often difficult to isolate the electronic timbres from the extended string techniques. His trombone, however, is an intensifying agent in the mix, provocatively distorting the misconception of the trio as limited to “improvisatory chamber music.…”
Art Lange, 2019

cd reviews:

…Wie auch in ihren „Trio pur“-Konzerten gelingt es ihnen immer wieder, einmal als drei Individuen gemeinsam und mit den Gästen zu interagieren, einmal als ein Klangkörper, der dem Posaunisten Konterpart bietet oder ihn zum Duett einlädt. George Lewis schließlich steigt ein und fordert heraus – als klangfarblich und gestisch sich absetzender Bläser oder als Vierter im Bunde des Gesamtkonglomerates. Manchmal eng verwoben, manchmal impulsiv, dann wieder zart flächig.
Nina Polaschegg, freiStil, 2020

Sehr beeindruckende Musik, in einer tollen Kombination von hochindividuellen Spielern.
Bert Noglik, 2020

…I quattro sono riusciti a fondere e far diventare unici strumenti e ambiente circostante attraverso un processo osmotico tra suoni e spazi, vuoti e silenzi. La forza innovativa di questo super quartetto riesce a far diventare la musica un medium che travalica le definizioni e si fa suono, complesso nel suo insieme ma efficace nella resa complessiva, e definitiva.…
Flavio Caprera, Jazzconvention, 2020

Continuing their quest for distinctive improvised sounds, the Kiming-Studer-Zimmerlin string trio delineated this musical combination with American trombonist George Lewis. An early convert to the use of synthesized extensions, Lewis’ live electronics means that the five improvisations here unfold in an uncommon fashion…
…No vapid horn-and-string disc, instead And George Lewis features four mature and cerebral players equally matched as they operate at the top of their game.

Ken Waxman, Jazzworld, 2020

…Cordes et trombone (et autres machineries électroniques) …. Ces funambules de l’improvisation ont invité le grand tromboniste expérimentateur George Lewis. Une rencontre improvisée de très haut niveau sur le label Ezz-thetics qui succède à Hat Hut Records. Coup de chapeau!…
Thierry Giard, Zarbalib, 2020

…L’intesa perfetta, quindi, è d’obbligo. L’assenza di strumenti a percussione e la preponderanza di strumenti a corda rende la musica molto prossima alle cosiddette avanguardie della musica classica contemporanea e/o dell’improvvisazione non idiomatica, e pure la presenza del trombonista chicagoano, indubbiamente il miglior strumentista formatosi alla scuola dell’AACM, ha un suo peso nella definizione di un suono oscuro e dalle fattezze per niente inclini a nessun tipo di formalismo. Concitato, nervoso ed emozionante, “Kimmig – Studer - Zimmerlin And George Lewis” potrà soddisfare a lungo i vostri ascolti riservandovi sempre nuove sorprese.
Mario Biserni, SandS-zine, 2020

…Un'ottima registrazione fa venir fuori con molto senso della subliminalità… …la sintesi elettronica è molto misurata e lascia spazio alla contrapposizione frammentata, il vero driver di questo bellissimo lavoro di improvvisazione…
Ettore Garzia, Percorsi Musicali, 2020

…Swiss-German trio Kimmig-Studer­Zimmerlin have a streng, unified consort sound, supplemented here by George Lewis an trombone and live electronics. Zimmerlin is both a desk composer and an improvisor, and insists an important equivalences between them. He says that composition and free improvisation are two very different methods with the same aim - "to get as good and as lively a music as possible" - and improvised form "in the end is as convincing as a composed form, but different". That conclusion is borne out by the very thoughtful improvisations here. "Natura Morta" ("Still Life") is a subdued exploration with Lewis an live electronics; the explosive "Very Nice" moves to an thrilling climax, with Lewis prominent an trombone. Electronics are eerily effective an "Seven Calors And Number Ten" where they contrast with the trio's generally dry sonorities.
Andi Hamilton, The Wire, 2020

…Mit Klängen verborgene Welten ans Licht holen: Das trifft für dieses Quartett mehr als für viele andere Musikformationen zu. Das eingefuchste Trio Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin trifft auf den amerikanischen Posaunisten und Elektronik-Künstler George Lewis. Oft sind seine Interventionen so subtil, dass man sie im Geflirre und Gesinge der Saiten nicht klar eruieren kann. Handkehrum setzt er mit seinen Posaunen-Growls wieder klare Kontraste zum organischen Geschimmer des Trios. In den 55 Minuten zoomt sich die Musik in unzählige Poren und Details einer Realität, die sich nur durch diese Klänge zu manifestieren scheint. In diesem Sinne erschafft die Musik Strukturen, die sonst unsichtbar bleiben…
Pirmin Bossart, Jazz'n'More, 2020

…La musique de ce quartet sans titre appelle à être réécoutée systématiquement. Elle forme un tout et sa continuité débouche sur une multitude de visions, territoires, tableaux, instantanés, poèmes, crescendos, métamorphoses qui font dilater notre mémoire et notre concentration. Chaque morceau a un début caractéristique, mais les quatre musiciens guidés par une curieuse télépathie s’en échappent allègrement, créant de nouveaux univers instables, incontrôlables et souvent confondants, tout en suivant une intangible ligne directrice. Chef d’œuvre, encore une fois.
Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, orynx-improvandsounds.blogspot.com, 2019

…Drive, passion, brightness and evocative ideas are the main compounds of the newest release by these musicians. All the compositions are based on free improvisation, the fundamental basics of avant-garde jazz, experimental music and the main tendencies of contemporary academical music. The instrumental section is evocative and bright – it’s based on specific, extended, weird, exotic or rare playing techniques brought together with authentic, natural, very well-known ways of playing, special effects, ornaments and coloristics of various ranges.
Avant Scena, 2019

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