free-jazz

Agustí Fernández was born in Palma de Mallorca, where he studied piano. Later he continued his studies in Barcelona, France and Germany. His musical life changed when he discovered the music of Iannis Xenakis and Cecil Taylor, with whom he studied in 1978. His solo career exploded in the II Biennial of Young Artists Creators of Salonika (Greece) in 1987. He has performed in major festivals in Spain and Europe and composed music for dance, theater, film and television.

Olaf Rupp, born 1963 in Saarlouis. As an autodidact at the age of twelve he started to play what we might call today Improvised Music or Instant Music and he always returned here after several excursions into other fields. In the nineties he mainly played electric guitar and his own setup of electronics. (EMAK BAKIA, STOL, BEASTIESHOPBEACH and sound installations) By now he came back to the acoustic guitar, developping some playing techniques (Chinese Pipa music, rasgueados, arpeggios and tremoloes) in such a way that they can be used for new cluster effects to create density.

Ken Vandermark (born September 22, 1964 in Warwick, Rhode Island) is an American jazz composer/arranger and saxophone and clarinet player. He grew up in Massachusetts, graduating from Natick High School. He performed and led groups while in high school and at McGill University in Montreal which he attended from 1982 to 1986. He is mostly self-taught as a musician, but studied intermittently with George Garzone in the early 1980s.

Under this name you will find a terrific acrobatic jazz quartet from Italy but also a Perth acoustic/folk band. And God knows how many others... The italian band features some of the best italian improvisers: Roy Paci on trumpet (Aretuska, Manu Chao, Pascal Comelade, Zu, Macaco, Tonino Carotone, Mau Mau, Daniele Sepe, Vinicio Capossela, Ivano Fossati, Piero Pelù, Samuele Bersani, Teresa De Sio, Subsonica, Nicola Arigliano, Africa Unite, Il parto delle nuvole pesanti, Corleone, Trionacria, Banda Ionica...