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AXEL DÖRNER, JACQUES DEMIERRE & JONAS KOCHER

Threading the line between jazz and reductionist-oriented free improvisation, this DDK Trio, using an unusual choice of instruments (trumpet, piano and accordion), brings together some of the best established names in the ever so specific and hard to define field of ‘free music’ with European roots. At the helm is German trumpeter Axel Dörner, a brilliant musician and one of the main figures in European jazz, who has worked with people like Alexander von Schlippenbach, Mats Gustaffson, Barry Guy ou Otomo Yoshihide, as comfortable with playing on the edge of silence as with bebop or music by Thelonious Monk; at the piano, Swiss improviser and composer Jacques Demierre, with an equally impressive list of collaborations with major artists throughout the world (including our own Carlos ‘Zíngaro’) and, finally, in wild-card fashion, Swiss accordion player Jonas Kocher, the youngest of the three, wielding an instrument which, while remaining relatively uncommon, slowly conquers its space in these aesthetic realms and lays down its particular sonic roots.

CÉSAR BURAGO

Easily recognizable as one of the most idiosyncratic musicians in this rectangle, Portuguese/Angolan percussionist César Burago is known as one of Sei Miguel’s (and occasionally Rafael Toral’s) co-conspirators, making a decisive contribution to the wonderfully sparse and suspended sonic universes created by those two great artists Portugal was lucky enough to spawn. After a hiatus from live performances, he recently resumed his live solo appearances, and we can only be thankful for the privilege - because the way he interprets the pulse of the music around jazz with apparently limited resources (Small ones, effectively), and how he draws miniatures of impossible architectures and metrics makes us believe, every time he hear him, that he holds the key to the most intimate secrets of rhythm. 

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