JazzDragons, AfroArabiq Walzer Archestra

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1st set
The trio JazzDragons, with Viola Falb (sax), Ingrid Oberkanins (perc) and Harald*Huber (keys), takes up John Zorn's Game Pieces and ignites the fault lines between prepared and quite digestible jazz pieces and freely improvised passages, which are structured by means of special sign systems. Individual musicians from the AAWA will be invited as guests to take part in the pieces, which will be drawn into the stream of improvisation and opened up ("drag & drop").

 

2nd set
The "Afro Arabiq Walzer Archestra" (AAWA) not only brings Arab, West African and Austrian musical traditions into contact with each other, but also creates a musical fusion. Iraqi and Syrian songs, Maghrebian Gnawa rhythms, Austrian waltz traditions and free jazz passages are combined to create a new kind of mixture. The result is a transcultural encounter zone that transforms the Afrofuturist spirit of Sun Ra's "Intergalactic Research Archestra" into a 21st century string & percussion landscape.

Program and cast

Harald*Huber: keyboards, composer, arranger
Rita Movsesian: vocals
Habib Samandi: darbuka
Ibou Nga Ba: djembe
Ingrid Oberkanins: percussion
Andreas Schreiber, Simon Frick, Tomáš Novák, Maria Salamon: violins
Gregor Aufmesser: bass

PORGY & BESS Jazzclub

Porgy & Bess (actually, Jazz and Music Club Porgy & Bess ) is a jazz club in the Riemergasse 11 in the 1st district of Vienna. The club , founded in 1993 is considered " the most important jazz organizer and trendy meeting point " of the Austrian capital .

The program of Porgy & Bess speaks to a very large audience , about 70,000 guests a year ; is accordingly Jazz " understood very pluralistic ," and the program " even in fringe areas , such as electronic music , contemporary music and world music penetrated . " Many international artists , particularly from the U.S. space , see also Austrian musician here an opportunity to perform . The club also offers the stage for events, such as the award of the Austrian World Music Award.

Musicologist Christian Scheib According to the Porgy & Bess " at the same time essential for the development of the musical ( jazz ) reality of a City" and needs and uses ' plain commonplace as urban space music. " It creates itself " through artistic preferences, acoustic quality , capacity and real capacity, the necessary exclusion of other clubs. " Here, the different areas of the jazz clubs allow - the area in front of the stage with tables, upstairs gallery , a lateral area with a bar at counter - different intense concentration on the concert scene . For Jazzthetik Porgy & Bess is even a " traditional club . "

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