瑞士 Switzerland / 马里 Mali

场地 Venue

华侨城创意文化园北区B10现场 B10 Live, North District of OCT-LOFT

演出者 Artists

Aly Keïta – 巴拉风（西非木琴） Balafon[1] / 卡林巴琴 Kalimba

Jan Galega Brönnimann – 单簧管 Clarinets / 高音萨克斯 Soprano Saxophone / 打击乐 Percussion

Lucas Niggli – 鼓 Drums / 打击乐 Percussion 

Kalo-Yele，班巴拉语意为“月光”，是一支由Aly Keïta、Jan Galega Brönnimann和Lucas Niggli组成的三重奏的名字。去年1月在瑞士知名即兴音乐厂牌Intakt Records旗下发行了同名专辑的他们，以一种融合西方爵士乐、即兴音乐与非洲节奏的方式来演绎非洲传统乐曲，将旋律与节奏轻松驾驭于指掌之间，在爵士乐和世界音乐之间自如游走。

Aly Keïta将传统巴拉风改造为半音阶的版本，为这个音色清浊交融的乐器更添一份色彩；Niggli作为世界上最精准和最具创造力的鼓手与打击乐手之一，不断探索不同打击乐器声音的可能性，如鼓、钹和锣，并以其编织出复杂的音乐肌理与层次；Brönnimann则将单簧管的魅力发挥到极致，无论是灵动的节奏还是传统的旋律，都在他收放自如的演绎之下呈现出千万般变化。三人合力，造就了他们韵味无穷、独具一格的杰出作品。

生于音乐世家的Aly Keïta是西非木琴巴拉风演奏大师之一。他也自制巴拉风并经常演奏它们，以不断锤炼自己已经非常高超的技艺。非洲流行乐风格、放克感十足的节奏组，加之以复杂的爵士乐编曲，让他从大多数的巴拉风演奏家之中脱颖而出。凭借他精湛的琴技，巴拉风在他手中两支“魔杖”的无数次挥舞之下，流淌出波澜壮阔而迷人的非洲复调音乐。现居德国的他，因出众的乐器演奏才能而常有机会与爵士和世界音乐领域的各路顶尖高手合作，其中包括印度打击乐巨匠Trilok Gurtu、奥地利爵士键盘手Joe Zawinul、古巴爵士钢琴家Omar Sosa和挪威萨克斯演奏家Jan Garbarek等。

瑞士籍单簧管演奏家Jan Galega Brönnimann和鼓手Lucas Niggli都出生于西非的喀麦隆。自小就是好友的他们，将青春都倾注在对西非音乐的声音和节奏的探索之中。青少年时代，他们都在瑞士和法国加入了无数乐队。在那之后的三十年里，Lucas Niggli专注于自由爵士与作曲，而Jan Galega Brönnimann则涉足电子爵士和世界音乐领域。如今，Lucas Niggli作为一名鼓手兼即兴演奏家，参与多个项目与乐队，与包括The Velvet Underground前成员John Cale、日本实验音乐家生江森、美国大提琴家Tom Cora、英国爵士歌手及小号演奏家Phil Minton在内的许多出色的音乐家共同参与跨界项目。Jan Galega Brönnimann则与瑞士著名鼓手Pierre Favre、美国爵士钢琴家Kenny Werner和灵乐歌手Eddy Floyd进行过合作。

*本节目由瑞士文化基金会上海办公室支持。

[1] 巴拉风：一种源自14世纪西非的木琴/体鸣乐器，通常有16到27个键，可以奏出旋律优美的曲调。

Kalo-Yele (“moonlight” in Bambara) is a trio consisting of Aly Keïta, Jan Galega Brönnimann and Lucas Niggli, also the name of their album which was released in the well-known Swiss improvised music label Intakt Records in January last year. They mix the traditional African repertoire with Western jazz, improvisation and African rhythms, each of them can handle the melody as well as the rhythm, or sail close to the jazz coasts as easily as near the banks of so called “world music”.

The musical results of the trio are consistently remarkable. Aly Keïta has transformed the traditional balafon, crafting a chromatic version of the hyper-resonant instrument. Niggli is one of the world’s most precise and creative drummer and percussionists, continuously explores a host of sounds from drums, cymbals and gongs while layering complex patterns. Emphasizing his clarinets, Brönnimann is as apt to play rhythmic patterns as traditional melodies. The parts all course together into a series of highly distinctive pieces, which gain layer upon layer of rhythm.

Aly Keïta is one of the grand masters of the balafon, the West African xylophone. Born in a musicians’s family, Aly Keïta makes his own balafons and plays them continually in order to excel alongside the very best. Keita’s Afro-pop, funk-fueled rhythm section and taste for complex jazz-oriented arrangements set him far apart from most balafonists. With his impressive virtuosity, Aly develops spectacular and enchanting African polyphonies on his instrument with one thousand and one waves of his (two) wands! Now living in Germany, his instrumental brilliance earned him opportunities to collaborate with jazz and world music legends such as Trilok Gurtu, Joe Zawinul, Omar Sosa, Jan Garbarek, among others.

The Swiss clarinetist Jan Galega Brönnimann and Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli were both born in Cameroon and became friends since they were one-year-old! So, they spent their youth to the sounds and rhythms of West African music. They later played together in numerous bands in Switzerland and France during their teenage years. In the 30 years since, Niggli has focused on free jazz and composition while Brönnimann has played electronic jazz and world music. Now, Lucas Niggli is a drummer and improviser and inlvoved in numerous projects and bands. He has taken part in several crossover projects with such musicians as John Cale, Ikue Mori, Tom Cora, Phil Minton and many others. While Jan Galega Brönnimann has collaborated with Pierre Favre, Kenny Werner, Eddy Floyd ect..

*This program is supported by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council.

[1] Balafon: A kind of wooden xylophone or percussion idiophone that has been played in West Africa since the 14th century. It plays melodic tunes, and usually has between 16 and 27 keys.

更多信息 More Information

https://intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/kalo-yele

视频 Video

Kalo-Yele Live at K9

https://v.qq.com/x/page/h0545hv28ne.html

Kalo-Yele – Dondory

https://v.qq.com/x/page/m0545fzmhyz.html

瑞士 Switzerland

场地 Venue

华侨城创意文化园北区A3+ A3+, North District of OCT-LOFT

主讲人 Speaker

Lucas Niggli

鼓手、即兴演奏家，Intakt Records团队成员，苏黎世艺术大学教师

Drummer, improviser, member of Intakt Records and teacher at the University of Arts in Zurich

语言 Language

英语 English

现场配有翻译 With English-Chinese interpreter

在过去的30年里，极少有欧洲唱片厂牌像瑞士苏黎世的Intakt Records一样，坚持完整地记录前卫音乐的冒险旅程。“低成本，质量却超乎想象”，纽约爵士网站All About Jazz这样评价Intakt Records。它记录了非常多杰出音乐家的发展历程，并为此付出了巨大的努力。迄今为止，超过250张专辑已在它旗下发行。它所获得的业界评价之高，恐怕也只有唱片买家和粉丝们的热忱能够超越了。

自1986年Patrik Landolt成立Intakt Records以来，世界各地的艺术家都从与它的关系中获益颇多，包括英国低音提琴家Barry Guy，美国萨克斯演奏家Oliver Lake，德国即兴钢琴家Alexander von Schlippenbach，美国多乐器演奏家Elliott Sharp，日本爵士钢琴家高瀬アキ，美国自由爵士钢琴家Cecil Taylor和德国爵士团体Die Enttäuschung等。它对自己的定位，不仅仅是一个传统的唱片公司，更是一个通过与艺术家长期的合作和用心的策划来产出精品的平台。

Patrik Landolt曾做过记者，八十年代初期开始与爵士乐产生了深刻的交集。他与瑞士钢琴家Irène Schweizer、Remo Rau联合创办了文化组织Fabrikjazz（意为“工厂里的爵士”），随后在1984年1月创办了如今闻名遐迩的爵士音乐节Taklos Festival。受到瑞士电台制作的高质量音乐节录音的启发，Landolt最终成立了自己的厂牌，即Intakt Records。

最初，Landolt对首批发行的唱片并没有抱太大期望，但在短短的一个月之间，这些唱片便售出了2000张。此后，Intakt Records开始在唱片出版业与艺术领域稳步前行。“以前与现在都是一个不断学习的过程，我们探索着，努力着，”他说，“我从来没有对自己的公司制作过财务计划，但是，我以自己对音乐的了解和热爱、对音乐家严肃的承诺为动力，一步一步地向前走着。”

Intakt Records也创办及举行了数个重要的音乐节：在苏黎世举行的年度即兴音乐节Unerhört! Festival，参演者包括马里巴拉风演奏家Aly Keïta、英国即兴演奏家Fred Frith和德国萨克斯演奏家Peter Brötzmann等；在纽约实验/前卫演出空间The Stone举行的The Labelportrait（2012年），参演者包括瑞士鼓手Lucas Niggli和Pierre Favre、Irène Schweizer等；在伦敦举行的The Labelportrait（2017年4月），参演者包括英国萨克斯演奏家Evan Parker、英国低音提琴家Barry Guy和瑞士小提琴家Maya Homburger等。

关于Lucas Niggli

“……一个将音乐纹理转化为地壳板块般充满层次感的声音地震学家……”

——《纽约爵士唱片（The New York City Jazz Record）》公报

1968年生于喀麦隆的Lucas Niggli是一名鼓手、即兴演奏家，也是Intakt Records的理事会成员，同时任教于苏黎世艺术大学。

他在多个乐团里担任鼓手，包括1995年成立的Steamboat Switzerland，并组建了自己的乐队并负责作曲，如Lucas Niggli Zoom和Big Zoom。他也经常与中国著名民族器乐演奏家徐凤霞一同演出，与Maya Homburger、Pierre Favre和Aly Keïta等知名音乐家在许多项目中有所合作，同时参与众多跨界项目，合作者包括The Velvet Underground前成员John Cale、日本实验音乐家生江森、美国大提琴家Tom Cora和英国爵士歌手及小号演奏家Phil Minton等。

关于Unerhört! Festival

何为“Unerhört”？ “Unerhört”字面上意为“前所未闻的”，但其语义已延展到更广泛的领域。如今，它作为一个愤怒或惊讶的标志，或积极或消极地起到强化的作用：极其、极坏、极好、极大。它也可以被理解为“令人难堪”或“拒绝欣赏”。

Unerhört! Festival是瑞士最重要的现代爵士/即兴音乐节之一，由Intakt Records创办于2002年，在苏黎世市区内拥有超过十个演出据点。其节目安排与组织均由一委员会负责。该委员会由三位音乐家和Intakt Records的四位工作人员组成，辅以有一个顾问团队。

去年，9个夜晚、27场精彩的演出、12个不同的场地，第十五届Unerhört! Festival吸引了约3000名观众前来参加，演出阵容包括冰岛实验音乐家Skúli Sverrisson、美国前卫爵士钢琴家Ethan Iverson和将参演本届OCT-LOFT国际爵士音乐节的三重奏Kalo-Yele等。今年的Unerhört Festival将于11月25日到12月3日举行。

*本节目由瑞士文化基金会上海办公室支持。

Over the last three decades, few European record labels have chronicled the totality and adventurousness of the avant-garde like Zurich Switzerland’s Intakt. “Small in budget, but immense in quality,” praises “All About Jazz” New York. It has made a special effort to document the development of many distinguished artists. More than 250 recordings have been released to date. The extraordinary critical acclaim has been surpassed only by the enthusiasm of the subscribers of the Intakt Records series.

Since the company was launched in 1986 by Patrik Landolt, artists from both sides of the Atlantic – Barry Guy, Oliver Lake, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Elliott Sharp, Aki Takase, Cecil Taylor, Die Enttäuschung and others – have enjoyed fruitful relationships with the imprint, which sees itself as something more than a traditional record company, working with its artists over the long term to produce carefully curated editions.

Patrik Landolt, a former journalist, became seriously involved in jazz at the start of the 1980s, co-founding the cultural organization Fabrikjazz (Jazz at the factory) with Swiss pianist Irène Schweizer and Remo Rau and soon thereafter starting the Taklos Festival, in January 1984. It was due to high-quality festival recordings made by Swiss Radio that Landolt was eventually inspired to start the label.

Landolt had modest expectations from the beginning, but his initial title ended up selling 2,000 copies in just one month, and since then Intakt has grown steadily, both in terms of releases and artistic reach. “It was and still is a learning process, searching and hard work,” he said, “I never made a financial plan for Intakt, but I worked step by step, led by my love for this music, my interest, my knowledge and my serious commitment to the musicians. ”

Intakt Records also made some important festivals: the Unerhört! Festival in Zürich, the Labelportrait in New York at the Stone (2012) and the Labelportrait in London (April 2017).

About Lucas Niggli

“…a sonic seismologist, who shifts musical textures like tectonic plates…”

– The New York City Jazz Record

Born in 1968 in Cameroon, Lucas Niggli is a drummer, improviser and board member of Intakt Records. He teaches at the University of Arts in Zurich.

He plays in various bands including Steamboat Switzerland and composes and generates concepts for his own bands: Lucas Niggli Zoom and Big Zoom. He regular duos with Xu Fengxia, and plays regularly in different projects with Maya Homburger, Pierre Favre, Aly Keïta and so forth. He has also taken part in several crossover projects with such musicians as John Cale，Ikue Mori, Tom Cora, Phil Minton and many others.

About Unerhört! Festival

What’s in a name? “Unerhört” literally means “not previously heard”, but the word has migrated into other semantic fields. The word is used as an intensifier, positively and negatively, as an indicator of either indignation or surprise: incredibly, egregious, tremendous, enormous. But it can also mean “embarrassing” or “not listened to”.

Founded in 2002 by Intakt Records, The Unerhört! Festival is one of the most important contemporary jazz and improvised music festivals in Switzerland. It is a multi-location festival spread over ten sites in the city of Zürich. The responsibility for the programming and organization is in hands of a committee，it comprises three musicians and four people from the Intakt label, assisted by an advisory team.

Last year, on 9 memorable days with 27 exciting concerts in 12 different venues, around 3,000 curious visitors participated in the 15th edition of the Unerhört Festival. Artists who attended in the festival last year including the trio Kalo-Yele which will give us a show in this OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival soon, experimental musician Skúli Sverrisson from Iceland, avant-garde pianist Ethan Iverson from America and many others. This year’s edition will held during November 25 to December 3.

*This program is supported by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council.

更多信息 More Information

http://www.intaktrec.ch/

http://unerhoert.ch/

http://www.lucasniggli.com/

视频 Video

高瀬 アキ& David Murray recording new Intakt Records release “Cherry – Sakura”

https://v.qq.com/x/page/r05455c2s5j.html

Eskelin – Weber – Griener at unerhört! 2016: China Boy

https://v.qq.com/x/page/a0545vg53bn.html