Doppelkonzert: Sam Amidon & Sam Gendel / GEORGE

In the organizer's words:

Drummer John Hollenbeck founded GEORGE while the Covid pandemic was still quiet. The name refers to the African-American George Floyd, whose death by police violence at the end of May 2020 was the trigger for protests by the Black Lives Matter movement in the USA. On the other hand, it refers to the Greek "Georgos" for "earthworker". While the first album "Letters to George" with its mix of futuristic electronica, vintage funk, synth-pop and jazz fusion was a tribute to many Georges - George Floyd, George Clinton, George Washington Carvers, George Sanders, etc., etc. - the follow-up "Letters to George" continues this theme. -The successor "Looking for Consonance" continues along the same path, both aesthetically and musically. Perhaps GEORGE's music sounds even more techno and electronic today than it did three years ago, perhaps the contrast between the concentrated tone of Anna Webber's saxophone, the beeping and chirping of Sarah Rossy and Chiquita Magic's various synthesizers and the groove-based immediacy of Hollenbeck's drums has become even greater. In any case, consonance outside of the musical context is revealed above all in demarcation and contradiction.

Anna Webber - sax/fl
Sarah Rossy - voc/synth
Chiquita Magic - synth/voc
John Hollenbeck - dr/comp

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In this duo setting, two individual creations meet. On the one hand there is Sam Gendel, born in California in 1987, who was infected with the jazz virus as a child by his father's record collection and took this as an opportunity not only to learn the alto saxophone, but also to teach himself to play the piano and guitar. Gendel represents a young generation of musicians for whom jazz is by no means an apodictic genre. Quite the opposite: when you listen to his jazz, you might wonder whether what you are hearing can still be identified as jazz at all. Then there is Sam Amidon, born in 1981 to folk parents, who is also a multi-instrumentalist, with guitar, banjo, fiddle and vocals. He is aesthetically rooted in white and black American roots music. But this is not a dictum for him either. He is open to the avant-garde of improvised and composed music and likes to experiment with the sound possibilities that arise from it. The two know each other; Gendel was a guest on Amidon's 2020 Nonesuch album, for example.

Sam Amidon - gtr/gtr synth/b
Sam Gendel - gtr/gtr synth/b

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The concert is seated.

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Photography is not permitted.