Heleen Van Haegenborgh & Christian Mendoza
COPPER
(LP+MP3)
WERF / WERF146LP
12 Inch LP
(printed Innersleeve + Download) One Piano, Two Musicians, Four Hands. Music At The Crossroads Of Minimalism, Chamber Music, Contemporary Jazz And Impro
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One piano, two musicians, four hands. Music at the crossroads of minimalism, chamber music, contemporary jazz and impro.
In their new duo, the jazz pianist Christian Mendoza and classically-trained pianist Heleen Van Haegenborgh explore Bach's oeuvre, starting from Kurtág's transcriptions for four hands. This inspired them to make their own music, a mixture of compositions and improvisation. The result is a meeting of two worlds, a unique symbiosis of age-old music and the constant urge for renewal felt by two present-day improvisers.
Copper, their debut album, will be released March 3rd on the W.E.R.F. label, a mark of quality in Belgian jazz since 1993. [txt from ]