Klaus Bru / Adam James Sorensen: Freedom Is Another Word

 Start Time: 8.30pm

Entrance Fee: $200

In this concert, a sax player and a drummer are exploring the chances and challenges of the duo format, and they’re climbing without ropes. Bru on electrified saxes (expect whirling notes, minimal cries, orchestral noises), Sorensen on drums and percussion (expect tricky, elegant, always groovy rhythms starting as a light breeze and becoming as big as a tempest), — and no bass, and no keys, and no guitar.

Free Music is rare to find in Taiwan, but Sappho Live is one of the few places where freedom is not just another word, but a concept to be explored and tested.

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Klaus Bru – C Melody Sax, C-Soprano Sax, Flute, Electronics, Feedbacks
Adam James Sorensen – Drums, Percussion

Klaus Bru

Klaus Bru is one of only a few saxophonists performing exclusively on the rare C-melody and the C-soprano sax—woodwind oddities which had their heyday in the 1920’s. These antiquities sound utterly contemporary in Bru’s hands, particularly when he furnishes them with electronic treatment.

Klaus Bru was born and raised in a little village in the South of Germany, and graduated in Jazz Saxophone from the Music University in Graz/Austria. He was a well-known protagonist of the Vienna Jazz scene in the early 1990’s, and the Berlin Avant-Garde art and music scene in the late 1990’s. In 2002 he moved to Taipei/Taiwan, where he became infused with indigenous music styles from various parts of the world.

Klaus Bru has performed with the main exponents of the Taiwanese jazz and avant-garde music scene, in 2010 he founded the jazz trio ‘I Have A New Band Now’. Together with Shih-Yang Lee, he is co-leader of the acclaimed world music improvisation group ‘Ka Dao Yin’. Klaus Bru has worked for dance and theater, and has performed and recorded with such diverse musicians as Franz Hautzinger, Peter Herbert, Michael Moser, Sunny Murray, Marc Ribot, Martin Stepanik, Sabu Toyozumi, Bilal Karaman, and hundreds more. Currently he shares his time between Vienna, Taipei, and Beijing.

Adam James Sorensen

Born in Chicago, Sorensen has performed and recorded with jazz artists such as Scott Hamilton, Melvin Sparks, Keith Tippett, Nostalgia 77, David Berkman, Herb Geller, Bobby Wellins, YuYing Hsu, Martin Zenker, Tony Monaco and Peter King.   He played on Yu Ying Hsu’s 2010 record, Untitled, which won both jazz recording of the year, and best jazz single in Taiwan ’10. He has also performed and recorded with rock and folk artists such as The Blood Oranges, Amy Allison, Neil Cleary, Jerry Joseph, John Carlin and Megan Peters, and has lived in New York City, Edinburgh, Berlin, Chicago and Taipei.

Sorensen has recorded and toured internationally both as a drummer, and as a singer songwriter/guitarist.  He released his solo debut, MIDWEST, in 2012 on City Creek Records.  Sorensen lived in New York City until 2005, and while there earned a BFA in jazz performance from New School University.  He has studied with jazz legends such as Geri Allen, Gregory Hutchinson, Carl Allen, Ari Hoenig, Peter Bernstein, Jane Ira-Bloom, Hal Galper, among others.  More information, performance dates and music can be found on his website:

www.adamjamessorensen.com

Klaus Bru簡介

Klaus是極少數專門以 「C調次中音薩克斯風」(C-melody saxophone)及「C調高音薩克斯風」(C-soprano saxopone)演奏的演奏家。

C調薩克斯風是薩克斯風家族裡的異數，曾經在1920年代興盛一時； 如今這項稀有的古早樂器，在Klaus的手中經過電子效果的處理之後，顯得十足地現代。

Klaus畢業於奧地利格 拉茨的藝術大學主修爵士薩克斯風，曾在1990年代初奧地利爵士音樂圈，和1990年代後期柏林前衛藝術界有著重要的地位。2002年他移居台北，並開始在他的音樂中融入世界各地傳統音樂的元素。

在台灣，Klaus時常與爵士和前衛藝術界的要角一同演出，也組成了「I Have A New Band Now」爵士三重奏，並同時是「卡到音即興樂團」的團長之一。

2012年Klaus回到歐洲定居於奧地利的維也納。