Exciting News indeed...
5th of May 2023 - Official Release
Amiira - Curious Objects
Amiira - Curious Objects
Klaus Gesing bass clarinet, soprano sax, effects
Björn Meyer electric bass, effects
Samuel Rohrer drums, modular synths
The trio Amiira of Klaus Gesing, Björn Meyer and Samuel Rohrer has returned after a layoff of six years since their debut LP. It would be unwise to expect for them to pick up exactly where they left off, given all the turbulent change that the world has encountered since this time, and indeed the new Album Curious Objects reflects a clear expansion of the players’ abilities. The fundamentals that guided the debut album – spatiality, refined coolness, the non-verbal “narrative” quality - are still very much present, but are this time reinforced with an even more pronounced feeling of communicating across wide physical and conceptual spaces.
Altogether, Curious Objects is a potent antidote for spiritual and musical fatigue; especially recommended for those who have already left behind the limitations posed by genres. It is more than the sum of its parts, and its crossing of numerous different boundaries never feels like the goal in and of itself: instead, all this activity feels like a tool for unlocking and decoding even more supposedly irreconcilable qualities and ideas.
(Thomas Bey William Bailey)
Track listing:
A 1_Garden Of Silence A 2_Dare To Dance A 3_On Second Thought
A 4_Ways Of Paradox A 5_Now That We Finally Met
B 6-Refraction B 7_Concentric B 8_Nostalgia B 9_Gravity Inn
B 10_Where We Go From Here — Total playing time: 47:55
credits
released May 5, 2023
Music created by Amiira (Klaus Gesing/Björn Meyer/Samuel Rohrer) except Garden Of Silence written by Asita Hamidi and On Second Thought written by Klaus Gesing
Recorded by Gérard de Haro in August 2021 at Studio La Buissonne, Pernes Les Fontaines, France
Mixed by Björn Meyer in April 2022 at Atelier363, PROGR Bern, Switzerland
Mastering and vinyl cut by Mike Grinser, Manmade Mastering Berlin, Germany
Produced by Amiira
Copyright Control / AKM / Suisa
D&DDA Ian Anderson, The Designers Republic
Label: www.arjunamusic.com
Distribution: www.wordandsound.net
Funded by Pro Helvetia/Swiss Arts Council, Kultur Stadt Bern, Swisslos – Kultur Kanton Bern, Burgergemeinde Bern
license
all rights reserved
Sound Of Mind
available now on all major streaming services -
in Dolby Atmos | Binaural and Stereo Mixes
I am really excited to announce the publication of my solo recording
- Sound Of Mind -
in Dolby Atmos (and consequently as Binaural) and as a Stereo Mix on all platforms that offer Dolby Atmos.
These are, until today:
Apple Music
Tidal
Amazon Music
Hungama
VIBE
Melon
Anghami.
The Stereo Mix of Sound Of Mind, without the possibility of listening to it in Dolby Atmos/Binaural, will be available on all other streaming services.
The original recording and mixing was done by the Italian sound engineer Francesco Marzona (www.francescomarzona.com).
He revisited the files and created a Dolby Atmos Mix - Binaural for those listening on headphones -
I hope you can enjoy, as much as I do, the depth, the multidirectional spaciousness and the room between the notes that this fascinating audio format offers.
Amiira - New Album: Curious Objects
Single Release
Today - 3rd of March 2023 -
is the happy day of the first of three Single-releases.
Today's track is:
Dare to Dance
...prior to the release of our second full scale album release
Amiira - Curious Objects
Klaus Gesing bass clarinet, soprano sax, effects
Björn Meyer electric bass, effects
Samuel Rohrer drums, electronics, mod.synths
Label: Arjunamusic Records - acoustic series
www.arjunamusic.com
The RELEASE DATE of the album is May 5 2023
At the same time, starting today, the CD is in pre-sale on Bandcamp!
Click here to order the CD on Bandcamp!
I feel so privileged to be able to make music with these gentlemen and to be part of this journey.
www.klausgesing.com
www.samuelrohrer.com
www.bjornmeyer.com
Music for moving images
The Austrian collector, organiser, music and art enthusiast Dr. Dieter Rodemund has asked me to write music for a series of videos about his homeland, the valley of the river Krems in Upper-Austria.
Below you can find the first three of these videos, highlighting some of the natural beauty of this area.
Dieter and Inge Rodemund have been passionately encouraging artists and all forms of artistic expression.
Their house was home for countless encounters in the field of art.
They have founded their cultural initiative - Medizin und Kunst (Medicin and Art) - back in 1995 and have kept it alive for 28 years.
Thank you!
Bratsch - A village goes to school
10.420 viewers since its launch (update on 23.02.2023) - www.procinema.ch
A Film by Norbert Wiedmer
Original Bratsch - Poster designed by Stephan Bundi @ www.atelierbundi.ch
The new film music project that I have the honour and the great pleasure to be involved in is a collaboration with the Swiss Film and Documentary director Norbert Wiedmer.
It is a long term documentary (2016 - 2022) that has followed the start of an alternative school concept in 2016 until the first generation of students are now leaving the school, to attend further education or enter a professional career. The new school already managed to revitalise a village in a remote Swiss mountain area and attracts a great number of new pupils every year. It created a name for itself, and offers an alternative to the schools run by the state.
Bratsch - A village goes to school is currently being screened in Swiss Cinemas...
read more...
The cinema premiere of Bratsch-A village goes to school
will take place at
Kino Rex Bern
> Website of Kino Rex Bern
Norbert Wiedmer - documentary film-maker
>Website of Norbert Wiedmer (Biograph Film)
Norbert Wiedmer @ www.swissfilms.ch
Klaus Gesing @ www.swissfilms.ch
Coming up in 2023
Concerts with the
Anouar Brahem Quartet
- 2023 -
14 March - Boulogne-Billancourt / France
3 April - Basel / Switzerland
4 April - Geneva / Switzerland
5 April - Zurich / Switzerland
11 April - Alès / France
and more to come...
13th of April 2023
Klaus Gesing Solo
@ Show of Hands Festival - Istanbul / Turkey
organised by Hermes Records & A.K. Müzik
Line-up
Wed 12 April
Anja Lechner - cello / Germany
Nik Bärtsch - piano /Switzerland
Thu 13 April
Klaus Gesing - bass clarinet; soprano saxophone/ Germany
Wolfert Brederode - piano / Netherlands
Fri April 14
Björn Meyer - bass / Switzerland
Magyar Younesi - piano / Iran
Sat April 15
Tamer Temel - saxophones / Turkey
Stefano Battaglia - piano / Italy
> all dates
Concert Gallery
Music for Voice and Big Band
in Latvia
20 November 2022
Klaus Gesing | Ana Pilat | Latvian Radio Big Band
click here for the Gallery with concert photographs by Pauls Zvibulis
photo © Pauls Zvirbulis
Klaus Gesing - reaLTime
Straight from the archives
Here is a nice track from a solo performance that took place at the Festival Jazz & Wine of Peace 2013, at the Tenuta Villanova, in Farra d’Isonzo/Italy.
Thanks to the marvelous equipe of Controtempo for sharing this video:
Click here to watch the Video directly on Youtube
Click here to visit the website of Controtempo
New Release
- In Oblivion -
Homayoun Shajarian - voice
Carlo Niederhauser - cello
Klaus Gesing - bass clarinet; soprano saxophone
Björn Meyer - 6 string electric bass
Fredrik Gille - percussion
Fardin Khalatbari - composition
Straight from the archives:
Klaus Gesing
Heartluggage
Gwilym Simcock - piano
Yuri Goloubev - bass
Asaf Sirkis - drums
Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2006
Filmed by Reinhard Brunner (ATS-Records)
Sound by ORF (Austrian National Radio)
Video by Dieter Rodemund
A Lament for Existence
This is an Initiative of Iranian Kamanche Player Hesam Inanlou. I am honoured to be part of this, for it marks the very first time that I played together with Kamanche in my life - and it happened over a distance of approximately 4700km.
Hesame released a whole series of videos where he plays in Duo with esteemed colleagues - and he called this series a Lament for Existence.
Ö1 Kunstsonntag Radiosession / Austrian cultural radio
It was a great opportunity to create, record and broadcast this solo performance during the Corona Lockdown on this well-known Austrian radio station. It is a mix of fully improvised tunes and solo recordings of some of my tunes that have previously been recorded with different groups.
Listen to the entire program and see some additional pictures on Youtube. Thanks to Dieter Rodemund for the video and the embellishment with pictures.
On soundcloud you can listen to the music only, without interviews and announcements.
Show of Hands Festival 2019
It was a feast for music, musicians and music lovers.
The 3rd edition of the Show of Hands Festival in Teheran focused on wind instrument solo concerts and is the only festival in the world that ever did so.
Markus Stockhausen, Yuri Honing, Sha, Anders Hagberg, David Prez, Soheil Peyghambari, Adam Pieronczyk, Francesco Cafiso, Hakon Kornstad, Simon Wyrsch, Mona Matbou Riahi and Klaus Gesing were the musicians invited for this year’s edition. 6 days of incredibly colourful improvisations in front of an fantastically enthusiastic audience.
Breathtaking!
Follow this link to see more images of the 2019 Edition of the Show of Hands Festival
reaLTime live on RAI
Listen to Klaus Gesing -
reaLTime at the Riverberi Radio Program.
Impro - the most recent ideas that happened to finish on tape:
Back at Multiphonics Festival Cologne
Last year Klaus Gesing has performed at the Multiphonics Festival in Cologne with the Anouar Brahem Quartet and as a Soloist with his program reaLTime.
This year he will be playing 2 concerts with the Trio
Winstone | Gesing | Venier and as special guest Cellist Nathan Bontrager.
Concerts will be in the Jazzschmiede Düsseldorf on 5th of October and Stadtgarten Köln on 6th of October.
He will also be holding a workshop about breathing technique and posture on the 7th of October in the Stadtgarten in Cologne.
See the Festival Program here...
reaLTime - Usina del Arte
It was a great experience to play in this fabuluous chamber hall in Buenos Aires.
Upon invitation of Adrián Iaies, director of the Buenos Aires Jazz Festival, I played my program reaLTime, this time with special guest José Saluzzi.
The public was very warm, attentive and receptive.
Together with the great crew of the festival, the acoustics of the room and the great PA, as well as the guitar playing of José Saluzzi, it added up to a very nice late afternoon concert experience.
Klaus Gesing
reaLTime
30.04.2019
International Jazz Day 2019
I am very happy to have been invited to celebrate the International Jazz Day 2019 in Liezen /Austria.
The event will feature two solo concerts and premiere:
Pianist John Wolf Brennan will play the first concert.
Then I will happily loop away using elements of my two CDs "reaLTime" and "sound of mind" - and we will conclude the concert with a brief musical encounter in Duo.
On Air: reaLTime @ Riverberi - RAI
Listen to the broadcast of a very special project, upon invitation of Piero Pieri at the RAI Triest/Italy.
I spent a day at the beautifully sounding studios of the the RAI in Triest, to record for the program Riverberi, by Piero Pieri.
Click here to go to the RAI-Riverberi-Website
