{"id":804,"date":"2023-05-19T22:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T20:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tigermoonrecords.de\/en\/?p=804"},"modified":"2023-05-31T18:33:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T16:33:54","slug":"twirls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tigermoonrecords.de\/en\/blog\/2023\/05\/19\/twirls\/","title":{"rendered":"TWIRLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue;\">TWIRLS is the name of the duo that Berlin based saxophonist Alexander Beierbach and pianist Nicolas Schulze from Potsdam have been working with since 2018. The duo regularly expands its lineup in collaboration with other musicians and artists of different genres, like in the <i>ma-Ensemble<\/i> with dancers Michal Hirsch (Israel) and Yuko Matsuyama (Japan) or in the project <i>Laut.ma.le.rei<\/i>, with Turkish illustrator Ceren Oykut.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue;\">The TWIRLS QUARTET was born out of such a collaboration. Together with Meinrad Kneer on double bass and Yorgos Dimitriadis on drums, two of the busiest musicians on the Berlin jazz and improvisation scene, a formation has emerged that casts the duo&#8217;s distinct sound in a new light. In May 2022, with the support of the Berlin Senate, the debut <i>Tides &amp; Shadows<\/i> was recorded at <i>Emil Berliner Studio<\/i> and unites the duo and the quartet as a double album.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue;\">In the quartet&#8217;s improvisations as well as the duo&#8217;s free dialogues, the instrumentalists explore a landscape of sounds and textures nourished by diverse musical backgrounds. Rooted in free improvisation, the TWIRLS DUO&#8217;s playing also <span lang=\"en\">contains references to the polyphonic melodies of the Baroque era and influences from contemporary music.<\/span> <span lang=\"en\">In the TWIRLS QUARTET, the classic roles of the individual instruments and the diverse possibilities of playing together as a collective are constantly being redefined. <\/span>The musicians interweave different levels of density and space and superimpose melodic-harmonic interplay with high-contrast sound sequences. <span lang=\"en\">The music follows a flow of repetitive themes and motifs that sound, are discarded and picked up again at unexpected points.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue;\"><span lang=\"en\">Both line-ups on <\/span><span lang=\"en\"><i>Tides &amp; Shadows<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en\"> have a dark yet extremely transparent sound, which Guy Sternberg captured congenially for the double album. <\/span>The cover is a wonderful painting by artist \u00d6zg\u00fcr Y\u0131lmaz, whose imagery reflects the complexity of the music of both the TWIRLS DUO and the TWIRLS QUARTET.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twirls.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twirls.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWIRLS is the name of the duo that Berlin based saxophonist Alexander Beierbach and pianist Nicolas Schulze from Potsdam have been working with since 2018. The duo regularly expands its lineup in collaboration with other musicians and artists of different genres, like in the ma-Ensemble with dancers Michal Hirsch (Israel) and Yuko Matsuyama (Japan) or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigermoonrecords.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigermoonrecords.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigermoonrecords.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigermoonrecords.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigermoonrecords.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigermoonrecords.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigermoonrecords.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tigermoonrecords.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigermoonrecords.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tigermoonrecords.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}