Berolina Suite by Barcelona Series trio

"What's most striking about Barcelona Series, though, is how unmechanical most of the music sounds. True, Dörner frequently makes sounds with the trumpet that the horn was never designed to produce – everything from hissing gas pipes to guttural, grinding engines. Neumann adds crystalline cascades and creaking bedsprings, and evidently applies an electric fan to the piano strings à la AMM tabletop guitarist Keith Rowe. Johansson deftly coaxes a broad palette of timbres and textures from his simple kit. The performers place every note and sound in silent space as delicately and deliberately as Anton Webern or AMM, and if the sounds themselves may be akin to industrial noise, the careful volition with which they are combined is distinctly musical – and distinctly human."
Steve Smith, Jazztimes

Andrea Neumann inside piano, electronics
Axel Dörner trumpet
Sven-Åke Johansson percussion

Recorded at Naherholung Sternchen, Berlin, November 2013
Recording Andrew Levine
Mixing & mastering Werner Dafeldecker

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© The musicians

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