Bojan Z / Nils Wogram Duo

Housewarming

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2016 / nwog 016

Line-Up:

Bojan Z – Piano, Fender Rhodes

Nils Wogram - Trombone

This is the duo`s first recording. It features catchy and rhythmic songs by Bojan and me. Recorded at Recpublica Studios an old mill where we lived, rehearsed and recorded in a cosy and relaxed atmosphere for about a week. You can feel this mood in the music.

Photo: Corinne Hächler

Two men, one word! Some stories simply write themselves. They are inevitable and must be written for the simple reason that they would otherwise remain unwritten. And that is unacceptable. There is one such story about the duo of Serbian pianist Bojan Zulfikarpasic, living in France, or Bojan Z. for short, and of the German trombonist Nils Wogram, living in Switzerland. Europe in a square format, yes, but there is much more to it than that.

When the two musicians stood on the stage together for the first time in 2012, at the Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin festival, their performance seemed so staggeringly self-evident. There, two musicians intuitively found a common narrative level, not because they needed to make any sort of effort, but because this playground was simply there. While it might be a platitude that they searched and found each other, that’s exactly what happened. If ever two musicians actually played the moment, without plan, ambition and other frippery, but rather to simply tell the audience and each other what they had to say at that moment, as unpretentiously as possible, then these two did just that.