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Im Mai 2002 machten der amerikanische Schlagzeuger Jeff Arnal und der deutsche Komponist und Pianist Dietrich Eichmann ihre ersten Studio-Aufnahmen in Brooklyn/New York. In den folgenden zehn Jahren erfreute sich das Duo trotz der geographischen Entfernung einer kontinuierlichen Zusammenarbeit und gastierte u.a. an Konzertorten wie Goethe-Institut NYC, Zeitgeist Gallery Boston, Improvised and Otherwise, Brooklyn/NY, Zeitgeist Gallery Cambridge/MA, University of Pittsburgh, Bennington College/VT, DeSingel Antwerpen, Sendesaal von Radio Bremen, Exploratorium Berlin, Phenomorphonic Hamburg, Les rencontres musique et littérature Paris. 2009 ergänzten die Kontrabassisten Astrid Weins und John Hughes das Duo zum Quartett PAIL BUG.
Am 29. April treffen Arnal & Eichmann sich bei der NEUEN MUSIK IM FLÄMING wieder, um den musikalischen Dialog in einer dramatisch veränderten Welt wieder aufzunehmen.
In der darauf folgenden Woche machen sie Studioaufnahmen und gastieren in Vilnius, Litauen.
Den Abschluss der Tour bildet das Konzert in der außergewöhnlichen Akustik des Mausoleums im Tierpark Dessau am 6. Mai.
Jeff Arnal (Schlagzeug), Dietrich Eichmann (Klavier)
KONZERT 1 – Samstag 29. April 2023 um 18 Uhr,
NMIF Jeber-Bergfrieden. Café im Garten ab 16 Uhr.
KONZERT 2 – Samstag 6. Mai 2023 um 20 Uhr,
Mausoleum im Tierpark Dessau
Jeff Arnal
”New York City-based Jeff Arnal is rapidly becoming one of the premier drummers in the free jazz arena…”
Glenn Astarita: All About Jazz
”Jeff Arnal’s wonderful drumming can parallel only that of his mentor Milford Graves.”
Khalid: Creative Loafing – Atlanta, Georgia
„A balletic sense of time and imaginative deployment of colour have combined into a highly original concept“
The Wire, UK
Jeff Arnal (*1971) ist ein amerikanischer Perkussionist und seit 2016 der Geschäftsführer des Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Arnal studierte Musik am Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD. Er hat einen BA-Abschluss in interdisziplinären Studien von der University of Maryland. In den 1990er Jahren studierte Arnal bei dem visionären Künstler Milford Graves und erhielt seinen MFA in Musik am Bennington College. Seit 1997 ist Arnal in der New Yorker Underground Musik- und Kunstszene aktiv. Im Jahr 2002 war er Mitbegründer von Improvised and Otherwise, einem interdisziplinären Festival für aufstrebende Künstler in Brooklyn, NY. Als Komponist und Perkussionist hat er mit einer Vielzahl von Musikern und Choreographen in den USA und Europa zusammengearbeitet und ist unter anderem aufgetreten bei: Ausland (Berlin), Berlin Exploratorium, CBGBs (NYC), deSingel (Antwerpen), Issue Project Room (NYC), Knitting Factory (NYC), Hallwalls (Buffalo NY), MATA Festival (NYC), Music Gallery (Toronto), Roulette (NYC), Tonic (NYC) und Vision Festival (NYC). Seine Musik ist auf einer Reihe von unabhängigen Plattenlabels zu hören, darunter Transit mit Seth Misterka, Reuben Radding und Nate Wooley auf Clean Feed und sein Duo mit Dietrich Eichmann auf Editions Brokenresearch und Leo Records. Seine Kollaborationen mit Choreographen wurden im PS 122, Joyce SoHo, Danspace Project in der St. Mark’s Church, The Chocolate Factory und Judson Church aufgeführt.
Im Jahr 2021 wurde er von Mike Watt in der Radiosendung Watt from Pedro interviewt, und er war Gast in der Radiosendung All things Cage mit Laura Kuhn, der Geschäftsführerin des John Cage Trust.
Sein neuestes Album, Drum Major Instinct, wurde 2022 bei Mahakala Music veröffentlicht. Drum Major Instinct trat 2022 auf dem Catalytic Sound Festival auf und wurde im slowenischen Magazin It’s Psychedelic Baby vorgestellt.
Dietrich Eichmann
Dietrich Eichmann (*1966) wuchs in Berlin auf und studierte Komposition bei Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe sowie bei Frederic Rzewski am Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège (Belgien). Seine Musiksprache wurzelt im Jazz und in der improvisierten Musik, verbunden mit einer radikalen und kompromisslosen Arbeitsweise als Komponist. Unter seinen Hauptwerken finden sich das Konzert für Peter Brötzmann und das Ensemble Modern „Prayer to the Unknown Gods of the People Without Rights“, das Klavierkonzert „Entre deux guerres“ und drei Musiktheater. Seine Arbeit als Komponist und als Pianist in der Improvisierten Musik ist international durch Rundfunkproduktionen und Tonträger dokumentiert. Der Großteil seiner Kompositionen ist in der Edition Gravis, Berlin, verlegt.
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DISKOGRAPHIE JEFF ARNAL & DIETRICH EICHMANN
Pail Bug
Dietrich Eichmann – piano, John Hughes – double bass, Astrid Weins – double bass, Jeff Arnal – percussion
Generate Records CD gen 18 (2012)
Generate Records 1999-2009
CD gen 13 (2009)
Live in Hamburg
Dietrich Eichmann – piano / Jeff Arnal – percussion
Brokenresearch LP br017 (2007)
the temperature dropped again
Dietrich Eichmann – piano / Jeff Arnal – drums & percussion
Leo Records CD LR390 (2004)
tripwire
Lars Scherzberg – alto saxophone, John Hughes – double bass, Jeff Arnal – percussion
Special guests: Alberto Braida – piano, Dietrich Eichmann – piano, Giancarlo Locatelli – clarinets
Generate Records CD gen 07 (2002)
Reviews
– Light, microscopic textures, rapid and evanescent. The album sounds fresh as paint.
Nate Dorward, Paris Transatlantic
– Solid and imaginative improvisation, fully articulate in form while playing completely spontaneously. As the pieces unfold, there are wonderful surprises, disconcerting moments, and, of course, eternal movement through the terrain of jazz, classical, and other musics that serve as touchstones for their joint creations.
Thom Jurek, All Music Guide
– Eichmann and Arnal cover a great deal of territory. Their intimacy with their instruments allows them to bring forth an array of fresh, unpredictable sounds; the music is alternately dissonant, meditative, industrial, lilting, explosive, and stark.
Florence Wetzel, All About Jazz, NYC
– A solid, unspoken understanding when they play together that makes the music seem much more like a cohesive composition than some freeform ruckus… The compositions and improvisation are wonderful, but the interplay is gorgeous.
Ryan McDermott, onefinalnote
– This is the most impressive and conceptually far-reaching sounding of post-Cecil piano I’ve heard in the past whenever; a major statement from a profoundly singular stylist.
volcanic tongue
– Magnificent slab! Simultaneously red hot and icy cool, this is a record of two exceptionally gifted artists coming together to make a joyful noise.
outer space gamelan
– Dietrich Eichmann’s holistic vision of the piano – treating it as an object that isn’t simply reducible to keys, pads and strings – has resulted in one of the most convincing rethinks of the instrument’s various percussive and tonal possibilities since Cecil Taylor. Composer Eichmann only returned to free improvisation during the past five years but his recent recordings – particularly the duo sets with percussionist Jeff Arnal issued by Leo Records and Editions Brokenresearch – display an appetite for really driving the form.
David Keenan, The Wire
20 years ARNAL & EICHMANN
In May 2002, American percussionist Jeff Arnal and German composer and pianist Dietrich Eichmann made their first studio recordings in Brooklyn/New York. In the following ten years, despite the geographical distance, the duo enjoyed continuous collaboration and performed at venues such as Goethe-Institut NYC, Zeitgeist Gallery Boston, Improvised and Otherwise, Brooklyn/NY, Zeitgeist Gallery Cambridge/MA, University of Pittsburgh, Bennington College/VT, DeSingel Antwerp, Sendesaal of Radio Bremen, Exploratorium Berlin, Phenomorphonic Hamburg, Les rencontres musique et littérature Paris. In 2009, double bassists Astrid Weins and John Hughes joined the duo to form the quartet PAIL BUG.
On 29 April, Arnal & Eichmann will meet again at NEUE MUSIK IM FLÄMING to resume their musical dialogue in a dramatically changed world.
The following week they make studio recordings and give a guest performance in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The tour concludes with a concert in the extraordinary acoustics of the Mausoleum in Dessau Zoo on 6 May.
Jeff Arnal (percussion), Dietrich Eichmann (piano)
CONCERT 1 – Saturday, April 29, 2023 at 6 p.m.
NMIF Jeber-Bergfrieden. Café in the garden from 4 p.m.
CONCERT 2 – Saturday, May 6, 2023 at 8 p.m.
Mausoleum im Tierpark Dessau
Jeff Arnal
”New York City-based Jeff Arnal is rapidly becoming one of the premier drummers in the free jazz arena…”
Glenn Astarita: All About Jazz
”Jeff Arnal’s wonderful drumming can parallel only that of his mentor Milford Graves.”
Khalid: Creative Loafing – Atlanta, Georgia
„A balletic sense of time and imaginative deployment of colour have combined into a highly original concept“
The Wire, UK
Jeff Arnal (*1971) is an American percussionist, and, since 2016, the Executive Director of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Arnal studied music at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD. He holds a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of Maryland. During the 1990s, Arnal studied with visionary artist Milford Graves receiving his MFA in music from Bennington College. Starting in 1997 Arnal has been active in the NYC underground music and art community. In 2002 he co-founded Improvised and Otherwise, an interdisciplinary festival for emerging artists in Brooklyn, NY. As a composer and percussionist, he has performed and collaborated with a wide range of musicians and choreographers throughout the U.S. and Europe with appearances at: Ausland (Berlin), Berlin Exploratorium, CBGBs (NYC), deSingel (Antwerp), Issue Project Room (NYC), Knitting Factory (NYC), Hallwalls (Buffalo NY), MATA Festival (NYC), Music Gallery (Toronto), Roulette (NYC), Tonic (NYC) and Vision Festival (NYC). His music can be heard on a number of independent record labels including Transit with Seth Misterka, Reuben Radding and Nate Wooley on Clean Feed and his duo with Dietrich Eichmann on Editions Brokenresearch and Leo Records. His collaborations with choreographers have been produced at PS 122, Joyce SoHo, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, The Chocolate Factory and Judson Church.
In 2021 he was interviewed by Mike Watt on the Watt from Pedro radio show, and he was a guest on the All things Cage radio show with Laura Kuhn, Executive Director of the John Cage Trust.
His latest record, Drum Major Instinct, was released on Mahakala Music in 2022. Drum Major Instinct performed at the 2022 Catalytic Sound Festival and was profiled in the Slovenian It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine.
Dietrich Eichmann
Dietrich Eichmann (*1966) grew up in Berlin and studied composition with Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe and with Frederic Rzewski at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Liège (Belgium). His musical language is rooted in jazz and improvised music, combined with a radical and uncompromising approach as a composer. Among his major works are the concerto for Peter Brötzmann and the Ensemble Modern „Prayer to the Unknown Gods of the People Without Rights“, the piano concerto „Entre deux guerres“ and three music theatres. His work as a composer and as a pianist in improvised music has been documented internationally through radio productions and numerous releases. The majority of his compositions are published by Edition Gravis, Berlin.
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Die Konzerte der Reihe NEUE MUSIK IM FLÄMING 2023 werden gefördert durch das Land Sachsen-Anhalt.
Concerts of the series NEUE MUSIK IM FLÄMING 2023 are funded by Land Sachsen-Anhalt.
Neue Musik im Fläming 