NEW RELEASE: einstein’s dreams (Konnex Records 5165)

CD Info

Live at Location One, Dec 2, 2004

Ursel Schlicht – piano
Reuben Radding – bass

1. unexpected vision 10:24
2. time passes more slowly for people in motion 15:59
3. textures of time 12:59
4. modulation of light 7:25

Recorded by Mario Diaz de Léon
Mixed by Reuben Radding & Ursel Schlicht
Mastered by Reuben Radding
Graphic Design: Eve Vick
Photographs: Scott D. Friedlander

“These musicians glide through the space they create, and the sounds they make resonate high in its architecture, like birds swooping through a mossy arch.” (Steve Dollar, NYC)

Two improvisers team up for an evocative concert of spontaneous piano/bass duets on einstein’s dreams, their debut release from Konnex Records. Schlicht & Radding have been working together since 2002 and have appeared at The Stone (NYC), Roulette/Location One (NYC), Polestar Festival for Creative Music (Seattle, WA), and participated in the “Symposium für Aktuelle Musik” in Kassel, Germany.

From the artist’s notes: “Both of us have played free improvised music, jazz, and various forms of new music for years, and yet, our mutual understanding was exceptional. In this duo, we found that the occasional textures inside the piano and extended techniques on the bass blended well with playing our instruments more conventionally, and we like challenging each other to continuously expand our vocabulary.” (Ursel Schlicht & Reuben Radding)

New York's Reuben Radding is one of the most distinctive young bassists playing improvised music today.With a deep tone and prodigious technique, Radding draws on an astonishing range of musical languages and extended sounds in his performances, whether solo or in the countless ensembles he has been involved with. Radding leads the quartet "Intersections", and has collaborated with John Zorn, Elliott Sharp, Marc Ribot, Wolfgang Fuchs, Wally Shoup, Saadet Turkoz, Carlo Actis Dato, Dylan VanDerSchyff, Ursel Schlicht, John Hollenbeck, Jack Wright, and many others.

AUF DEUTSCH:

Einstein’s Dreams ist eine spannende live-CD mit spontanen Piano –und Bass Duos von Ursel Schlicht und Reuben Radding, einem eingespielten New Yorker Team, aufgeführt in in der wohl traditionsreichsten Konzertreihe für “adventurous music” von Roulette/Location One Schlicht und Radding arbeiten seit 2002 zusammen und waren u.a. in John Zorn’s New Yorker Club “The Stone”, beim  Polestar Festival for Creative Music in Seattle (USA) und beim Symposium für Aktuelle Musik in Kassel zu hören.

“Wir spielen beide seit Jahren frei improvisierte Musik, Jazz, und verschiedene Formen neuer Musik, und dennoch empfanden wir unsere intuitive Kommunikation im Zusammenspiel als aussergewöhnlich stark und sensibel. In diesem Duo verbinden sich die Sounds im Piano-Innenraum und die erweiterten Techniken auf dem Bass hervorragend mit konventionelleren Spielweissen unserer Instrumente.  Wir fordern uns ständig zu neuen Ideen heraus und erweitern in diesem Duo ständig unser musikalisches Vokabular."