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Euphonic Productions presents:
Denzler/Koch
Bertrand Denzler - tenor saxophone
Hans Koch - bass clarinet, soprano saxophone
9pm, Mon, Nov 3, 2003
Eyedrum
 Denzler/Koch
Bertrand Denzler - tenor saxophone
Hans Koch - bass clarinet, soprano saxophone
These two Swiss improvisers met in 1996 for a "Conduction” by Butch Morris. They played their first duo concert in 1999. They also worked as a quartet with Günter Müller and Jacques Widmer as well as with the band Chamaeleo Vulgaris. A new CD called "Asymétries" came out in may 2003 on the Canadian label Ambiances Magnétiques.
Bertrand Denzler has worked in Europe and South America with musicians such as Günter Müller, Michel Doneda, Phil Durrant, Ninh Lê Quan, Urs Leimgruber, Barry Guy, Otomo Yoshihide, Bob Ostertag, Jacques Demierre, Xavier Charles, Peter Friis Nielsen, Mark Sanders, Gianni Gebbia, Sunny Murray as well as solo. He is a member of the bands Hubbub, Nanocluster, Chamaeleo Vulgaris. He has released CDs on Matchless, For4Ears, Leo, Unit, labelle, Inversus Doxa...
Hans Koch has been playing in Europe, America and Asia with Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Paul Lovens, Barry Guy, Barre Philips, Phil Minton, Peter Kowald, Voicecrak, Günter Müller, Hans Reichel, Tom Cora, Jim O’Rourke, Fennesz, Elliott Sharp, Anthony Coleman, DJ M.Singe, DJ I-Sound, Joëlle Léandre, Cecil Taylor while continuing his work with the trio Koch-Schütz-Studer. He is featured on CDs on Intakt, FMP, For4Ears, HatArt, Unit, ECM...
"This album doesn't come from an expected outlet -- after all, Bertrand Denzler and Hans Koch appear to have no ties to the Ambiances Magnétiques collective prior to this CD -- but it stands as a peak in the discography of both of these Swiss improvisers. Denzler (Hubbub, Chamaeleo Vulgaris) and Koch had been going down a path of gestural abstraction, digging ever deeper within themselves and the materiality of their instrument (here respectively tenor sax and bass clarinet, Koch also plays soprano sax) to find unheard sounds and develop a new musical vocabulary. Their search parallels that of John Butcher, Wolfgang Fuchs and Axel Dörner. Working as a duo, they apply this new vocabulary in conversation, articulating squeaks, burps and key clicks into an eery jungle-at-nightfall soundtrack. Tongue stabs, multiphonics and circular breathing represent only the tip of the iceberg of their extended techniques. The set is short (37 minutes), but thoroughly captivating. The highly challenging nature of this album is balanced by a wide diversity in textures and dynamics."
François Couture, All Music Guide
http://www.actuellecd.com
http://bdenzler.free.fr
http://www.koch-schuetz-studer.ch
 Bertrand Denzler
Tenor Saxophone
Born 1963 in Geneva (Switzerland). Lives in Paris.
After experiences in various settings, Bertrand Denzler started to play jazz in the early 80s. Today, he is mainly involved in free improvised music but continues his researches as a composer.
Member of numerous bands, he did also participate to several improv meetings. He has been playing in Europe and South America with hundreds of musicians, with improvisers from other fields (dance, sculpture, poetry…) and solo.
He has published around 15 CDs and CD-Rs, he sometimes works for theater companies and films and leads improv workshops.
In some projects, he also uses other instruments (microphones, effects, CD/MD, guitar, computer...).
Bands
Currently a member of "Hubbub", "Denzler/Koch", "Denzler/Mariage" and "Chamaeleo Vulgaris", he has been playing in numerous groups, including "Momentum" and "49° Nord".
Concerts, Meetings, and Recordings
In Europe and South America with very different musicians such as Günter Müller, Michel Doneda, Phil Durrant, Ninh Lê Quan, Urs Leimgruber, Barry Guy, Otomo Yoshihide, Bob Ostertag, Jacques Demierre, Xavier Charles, Peter Friis Nielsen, Mark Sanders, Gianni Gebbia, Sunny Murray... and solo.
Festivals
Freedom of the City (London)
Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon (Ulrichsberg)
Musique Action (Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy)
International Jazzfestival Willisau (Willisau)
Densités (Fresnes-en-Woëvre)
Musique et Quotidien Sonore (Albi)
Banlieues Bleues (Seine-Saint-Denis)
Europa Jazz Festival (Le Mans)
Schaffhauser Jazz Festival (Schaffhausen)
Festival du Belluard (Fribourg)
WIM Festival (Bern)
Grenoble Jazz Festival (Grenoble)
Rencontres Internationales de Jazz (Nevers)
Musiques de Jazz et d'Ailleurs (Amiens)
La Villette Jazz Festival (Paris)
Printemps du Jazz (Nîmes)
Chants Mécaniques (Tourcoing)
Musiques Innovatrices (Saint-Etienne)
CH New Jazz Festival (Zürich, St. Gallen, Luzern, Basel, Bern, Genève)
Jazz Festival Chiasso (Chiasso)
FJACN (Neuchâtel)
Musiques et Sons en Liberté (Lussas)
Festival de la Cité (Lausanne)
MusikKo (Bern)
Festijazz (Neuchâtel)
Festival de Jazz de Béziers (Béziers)
Expo 2000 Pavillon Suisse (Hannover)
Jazz en scènes/Archimède 00 (Bordeaux)
Les Improbables (Lyon)
Visages des nouvelles musiques suisses (Marseille)
Contes de Suisse (Montreuil)
Actes Temporaires (Auriac)
Transe Lucide (Montreuil)
Fête Epsilonia (Montreuil)
Jazz se fait label (Paris)
Crop (Paris)
Art et Squats (Paris)
Jazz Essenz (Aarau)
Echos de Paris (Zürich)
A travers les Alpes (Zürich, Genève)
ZH Connection (Köln)
Pelikan Jazz (Zürich)
Int. B-Flat Jazz Nights (Zürich)
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CD
Denzler/Koch "Asymétries" (Ambiances Magnétiques)
Hubbub "Hoop Whoop" (Matchless)
Brennan/Denzler/Weber/Wolfarth "Momentum 3" (Leo)
Hubbub "Ub/Abu" (For 4 Ears)
Nanocluster "02/2000" (Leo)
49° Nord "Tentacles" (Av-Art)
49° Nord "Animal Language" (Unit)
Chamaeleo Vulgaris "Ouverture Facile" (Leo)
Bertrand Denzler Cluster "Y?" (Leo)
Christophe Marguet Quartet "Les Correspondances" (Label Bleu)
Denzler/Dürst/Pfammatter "Now" (labelle)
Denzler/Haerter Quartet "Minor Works" (labelle)
Burhan Öçal Group "Dervis Mustafa" (MGB/Musikszene Schweiz)
Denzler/Wiesendanger "Folies" (labelle)
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CD-R
Chamaeleo Vulgaris "Fête Epsilonia 2001" (Radio Libertaire)
Denzler/Mariage "Mars" (Inversus Doxa)
Chamaeleo Vulgaris "Les Falaises" (Inversus Doxa)
Chamaeleo Vulgaris "Toter Hirsch" (Inversus Doxa)
Bernard Vidal Quartet "SKBô" (bvq)
Cassettes
PK-Band "PK-Band" (Autoprod)
Denzler/Wiesendanger "Two Bleu" (labelle)
Denzler/Kopf "Guitarmusic" (Autoprod)
Music for Film & Theater
"Images de la vie quotidienne" by Christoph Kühn
"Sophie Taeuber-Arp" by Christoph Kühn
"Er Moretto" by Simon Bischoff
"Teatro dell'essere" Rome
Numerous pedagogical productions
Compositions
Around 70 works since 1988
Radio & Television
Recordings and shows on: DRS/RSR/TSI (Switzerland), France Musiques, France Culture, BBC Radio 3, Deutschlandfunk, Danmarks Radio, TV TRT 2 (Turkey), several local radios.
Interviews
Copper Press N° 3, Improjazz N° 65, 66, 77, 81, 97, Jazz Magazine N° 504, Peace Warriors N° 16, Jazz Notes N° 63, www.belgradeyard.co.yu
Interview of Hans Koch by Betrand Denzler in Cahiers du Saxophone N° 2
Publication of a short text in "Jazz en Suite" (Ed. du Garde-Temps, Paris)
Studies
Baroque music with Dorette Fluri and oboe with André Raoult at the Zurich Conservatory
Guitar with Daniel Gisclon
Saxophone with Omri Ziegele and John Voirol
Different workshops and master classes
Press
"Stretching the perimeters of saxophone playing with his breathless blowing, sound channeling that finds him spinning half-spirals that spontaneously disconnect and reform numerous times over the course of a lengthy piece, brassy clucking noises, squawks, and an incredible sense of melody that demonstrates he is as capable of playing straight beauty as he is spewing dissonance, Denzler, at the age of 36, is at the foreground of creative improvisational music in Europe." - Steve Brydges, Copper Press (USA)
"L'étendue des capacités instrumentales de Denzler est immense : il sait passer à l'énergie ou plier son discours selon des lois plus linéaires, se montre également apte à peaufiner le son dans le sens de la douceur ou à le travailler vers des registres plus violents. Entre méditation et suspens, coups de langue, coups de gueule ou projection de laves cuivrées, toute la palette sonore est superbement utilisée." - Philippe Méziat, Jazz Magazine (F)
"Denzler, although he sounds fragmentary, is terribly good at making logic out of his very clipped vocabulary." - Richard Cochrane, musings (UK)
Contact
denzler@club-internet.fr
http://bdenzler.free.fr
 Hans Koch
Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone
Born in 1948 in Biel/Bienne (Switzerland) where he still lives.
After classical studies, Hans Koch quits his job as a solo clarinetist from the Winterthur Philharmonic to play exclusively jazz and improvised music. He becomes one of the most active musicians of the swiss scene, working with musicians such as Werner Lüdi and Urs Blöchlinger as well as with the trio Koch/Schütz/Käppeli.
After playing with Cecil Taylor's European Big Band and participating to several international projects, he tours extensively in Europe, America and Asia with some of the best improvisers, with own bands and solo.
He is featured on over fourty CDs and works regularly for films or theater plays.
Apart from his main instruments, he also plays contrabass clarinet, tenor saxophone and electronics.
Bands
Hans Koch main band is "Koch/Schütz/Studer". He also was a member of "Holz für Europa".
Concerts, Meetings, and Recordings
With musicians such as Evan Parker, Fred Frith, Paul Lovens, Barry Guy, Barre Philips, Phil Minton, Peter Kowald, Voicecrak, Günter Müller, Hans Reichel, Tom Cora, Jim O'Rourke, Fennesz, Elliott Sharp, Anthony Coleman, DJ M.Singe, DJ I-Sound, Joëlle Léandre, Cecil Taylor, Louis Sclavis, Han Bennink, Butch Morris, Paul Bley, Anthony Coleman, Shirley Hirsch, Andrew Cyrille, London Improvisers Orchestra...
Festivals
DuMaurier International Jazzfestival (Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Québec)
Texaco Jazzfestival (New York)
Internationales Jazzfestival (Zürich)
Festival Musique Actuelle (Victoriaville)
Off-Beat Festival (Basel)
International Festival (Mexico City)
Konfrontationen (Nickelsdorf)
International Jazzfestival (Wolgagrad)
Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon (Ulrichsberg)
International Festival of Contemporary Music (Krakau)
Internationales Jazzfestival (Saalfelden)
Hörfest Stainach-Steirischer Herbst (Stainach)
International Jazzfestival (Pärnu)
Klang-Art (Osnabrück)
Musique Action (Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy)
Internationales Jazzfestival (Willisau)
Jazz à Mulhouse (Mulhouse)
Earshot Jazzfestival (Seattle)
Jazzfestspiele (Bayreuth)
Internationales Jazzfestival (Saint-Petersbourg)
Tage für neue Musik (Darmstadt)
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CD's
Koch/Schütz/Studer & Christian Uetz "Live im Schiffbau" (Intakt)
London Improvisers Orchestra "The Hearing Continues" (Emanem)
Barry Guy New Orchestra "Inscape - Tableaux" (Intakt)
Koch/Schütz/Studer & DJ M-Singe, DJ I-Sound "Roots & Wire" (Intakt)
Fred Frith "Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire" (i dischi di angelica)
Koch/Schütz/Studer & Musicos Cubanos "Fidel" (Intakt)
Lawrence Butch Morris "Tit for Tat" (For 4 Ears)
Koch/Schütz/Studer & El Nil Troop "Heavy Cairo Traffic" (Intuition)
Koch/Schütz/Studer "Hardcore Chambermusic" (Intakt)
Fredy Studer/Christy Doran "Half a Lifetime" (Unit)
Koch/Schütz/Studer/Demierre/Marti/Wittwer "Chockshut" (Intakt)
Holz für Europa "Comité Imaginaire" (FMP)
Paul Bley "In a Row" (HatArt)
Hirsch/Reichel/Lovens/Morris/Deane/Hwang/Schütz "X-Communication" (FMP)
Sclavis/Parker.Fuchs/Koch "Duets, Dithyrambisch" (FMP)
Hans Koch Solo "Uluru" (Intakt)
Schütz/Koch/Hirsch/Morris/Hwang/Cora/Barnett/Cyrille "Approximations" (Intakt)
Koch/Schütz/Käppeli "The Art of the Staccato" (Soundaspects)
Cecil Taylor Big Band Berlin "Alms" (FMP)
Koch/Schütz/Käppeli "Accélération" (ECM)
Werner Lüdi Sunnymoon "Serendipity" (Creative Works)
Urs Blöchlinger "Neurotica" (HatArt)
Werner Lüdi Sunnymoon "Lunatico" (HatArt)
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Film Music
"Höhenfeuer" by Fredi Murer
"Tupamaros" by Rainer Hoffmann et Heidi Specogna
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Radio Plays & Theater
"Die Amsel" by Robert Musil,
"Der Mann des Zufalls" by Yasmina Reza
"Hang und Riss" by Alex Gfeller.
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Press
"He sounds for the most part very much like himself, a particular achievement on the soprano and bass clarinet, instruments which can easily submerge any musician's individuality" - Stuart Kremsky, Option (USA)
"Une extraordinaire discipline instrumentale, un sens de l'énergie collective. Décapant!" - Orkhêstra International (F)
"Koch ist seinem Selbstverständnis nach zwar kein Intellektueller, wohl aber ein äusserst intelligenter Virtuose, den es in die Extreme seiner Instrumente zieht" - Peter Rüedi, Die Weltwoche (CH)
CONTACT
hans.koch@freesurf.ch
www.koch-schuetz-studer.ch
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