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Mavì 04:03
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Ausencia 07:26
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Unrequited 06:25
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Bluesette 04:17
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Black Eyes 03:53
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Intakt CD 226

Mavì is the title of the Biondini-Godard-Niggli trio's new CD. It refers to a clear blue, the colour seen when looking at the earth from outer space. And it says a lot about the sounds it offers us. We hear music which seems to emanate from the spheres while remaining wholly worldly, emotional and sensual. The trio formed by Luciano Biondini, Michel Godard and Lucas Niggli is unusual in various senses. Firstly the musicians' nationalities: Biondini (born 1971) comes from Spoleto in the Italian province of Perugia, Michel Godard (born 1960) comes from Héricourt near Belfort in the Franche-Comté in France, and Lucas Niggli (born 1968) is Swiss, a native of the Zürich Oberland who spent the first seven years of his life in Cameroon. So this is a meeting of various cultures and languages.
A further particularity of the trio is its instrumental make-up. Biondini plays the accordion, Niggli the drums and all manner of percussion instruments; Michel Godard plays the tuba and the serpent – an ancient, serpentine wind instrument with a mouthpiece like a brass instrument but side holes like a woodwind instrument. Sometimes Godard also takes up the bass guitar. Thanks to this highly individual and fascinating instrumental arsenal the trio has a truly spectral palette of sounds at their disposal.
The music of Biondini, Godard and Niggli thrives on its poetry, the beauty of its sounds, the depth of its ideas, and also on its tension. This is generated by the weave between composition and improvisation. Which is how they succeed in making that connection be-tween form and freedom which constitutes the core of jazz. We see the earth, clear and blue.

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released August 16, 2013

Luciano Biondini: Accordion
Michel Godard: Tuba, Serpent, Bass
Lucas Niggli: Drums

Recorded May 23, 24, 2013, by Willy Strehler at Klangdach, except track 8 and 9, which are recorded live at Jazzfestival Schaffhausen, May 22, 2013, by Martin Pearson for SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen. Mixed and mastered July 8, 9, 2013, by Willy Strehler at Studio Klangdach. Cover art and graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Photos: Cees van de Ven. Liner notes: Manfred Papst. Produced and published by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt

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Lucas Niggli Uster, Switzerland

Born 1968, lives in Zürich.

As one of the most demanded European drummer and improviser, he plays in various working-bands in the field of Jazz, Rock, New Music, Noise, World and Improvisation.

He is playing on more than 60 CDs, most of them on INTAKT Records, teaches at the University of Arts in Zurich (ZHdK) and is promoter of a concertserie for contemporary music.
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