Luca Sisera ROOFER & Kammerphilharmonie Graubünden
CLAZZ
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2023 / nwog052
Line-Up:
Luise Volkmann: Alto Saxophone
Yves Theiler: Piano
Andreas Waelti: Double Bass
Dario Sisera: Percussion
Michael Stulz: Drums
Luca Sisera: Komponist, Bandleader
Kammerphilharmonie Graubündnen
Luca Sisera is an artist who embraces interdisciplinary curiosity and openness with his quintet ROOFER. His long-running intensive experimentation on the fringes of musical genres, be it as a composer or as a bassist, defies pigeonholing. This applies exemplarily to his ambitious new project CLAZZ, the experimental openness of which invites listeners to embark on a challenging musical expedition without any stylistic reservations.
This work, comprising five movements and lasting over 70 minutes, took almost two years to compose. Although CLAZZ does include compositions played and released previously by the quintet, long stretches of it consist entirely of newly composed material. The rearranged older compositions incorporated into CLAZZ, some of which also lend their titles to the individual movements, have been enhanced so extensively and intensively by numerous new sections, that the original compositions ultimately make up just a small fraction of the work. Therefore, anyone thinking that these are merely orchestral versions of well-known ROOFER pieces would be quite mistaken. Instead, CLAZZ includes them as a common denominator in relation to the original ROOFER quintet music and as a musical point of contact that makes it possible to “recklessly design a powerful musical rocket despite all technical difficulties and set off for new sonic galaxies,” as composer and saxophonist Daniel Schnyder aptly describes it in the liner notes.
The project aspires towards a synthesis that unites classical music and jazz.
Luca Sisera works in an almost autobiographical manner. “My pieces are always very personal,” he says. “There are whole stories behind them.” He sees his music “as a reflection on our era and my own life and the immediate reaction to it.” The compositions thus echo “personal experiences and observations from everyday life.” These initial experiences that Sisera tells of are very different and absolutely personal; their meaning is hardly apparent to anyone else. This does not matter to Sisera. It seems that what inspired him when composing, much like stylistic classification, no longer plays a role. This is because CLAZZ strives to be one thing only: music without any reservations or blinkers.
