Play!

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Joana Maria Aderi: Voice, Electronics; Dominik Blum: Hammond Organ; Silke Strahl: Tenor Sax; Marc Unternahrer: Tuba; Marina Tantanozi: Flute, Electronics; Christian Weber: Double Bass; Helena Winkelman: Violin; Peter Conradin Zumthor: Drums; Celesta Tizia Zimmermann: Accordion; Lucas Niggli: Drums, Melodica, Composition. With the Sound Of Serendipity Tentet, Lucas Niggli, who has been at the forefront of Swiss-European jazz for many years, brings together some of the most exciting musicians from the local jazz and improvisation scene. Stirring music is created in a highly original playing instruction via 40 composed playing cards, implemented by this ten-member ensemble of strong personalities and the factor of chance. And so, Play! is a vehi_cle to negotiate a spectrum of composed and improvised be_haviour in the form of a card game played over three rounds. "On the one hand, we hear a composition which sounds like an expansion of Lucas Niggli's musical character: mercurial, highly detailed, uncannily responsive to others, unafraid of groove. And yet on the other, I suspect that the listener famil_iar with the individual performers on the recording will smile to themselves at how vibrantly those performers' own individual characteristics are set into relief by Niggli's game", writes Al_exander Hawkins in the liner notes.