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BIELEFELD

by BIELEFELD

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carillon 10:02
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[b] 03:19
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liminal 18:55

about

BIELEFELD was a trio that existed between the summer of 2020 and autumn of 2021, consisting of Nelly Jüsten on piano, Pascal Widmer on drums and Felix Nussbaumer on saxophone. After a very creative and promising initial run, eventually culminating in a concert at Jazzfestival Schaffhausen in 2021, the band parted ways. In the last months of BIELEFELD's existence, the musicians gathered in a studio for a single day and recorded this record, a thrilling document of their musical vision at the height of their abilities.

Felix Nussbaumer's compositions are fragmentary, yet dense and rich in information. They emerge from, and embed themselves into an improvised musical fabric that sounds distinctly orginal and idiosyncratic. Their way of playing as a band is heavily influenced by a lineage of creative musicians going back to Anthony Braxton and the AACM, capable of both interpreting complex notated material as well as spontaneously continuing the musical ideas within it in a delicate, differentiated and disciplined form of improvisation, as can be heard in Nelly Jüsten's poignant treatment of harmonic ideas from the piece „carillon“, interwoven with her characteristically gentle, yet decisive style of piano playing in the opening of the album, or in Pascal Widmer's sharp, reduced and precise percussion solo, which forms the metaphorical centerfold of the record.

Since the recording sessions, the music has never seen the light of day again.

The differences within the band that led to its breakup are not reconciled, but there was a realization – both collectively and individually – that this music is an incredible document of hundreds of hours of working, playing, writing, experimenting, listening, talking, feeling and thinking that have resulted in such a clear and unique musical vision, it would be a shame to sit on it forever.

This is the band's self-titled, first-and-only record – BIELEFELD.

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released November 1, 2022

Felix Nussbaumer - tenor saxophone, compositions
Nelly Jüsten - prepared piano
Pascal Widmer - drums, percussion, electronics

Recorded in July 2021 at Gabriel Recordings, Stalden (Switzerland).
Mixed by Ludwig Wandinger.
Special thanks to Gerry Hemingway for passing down his wisdom and believing in us.

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Felix Nussbaumer Lucerne, Switzerland

Saxophonist, composer, improviser and multimedia artist based in Lucerne (Switzerland).

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