Eric Schaefer + Ensemble
Biography Eric Schaefer + Ensemble
Eric Schaefer
has demonstrated his versatility in recent years with the Carsten Daerr Trio, the Arne Jansen Trio, in a duo with Ulrike Haage and in numerous other projects. In 2010, the Berlin drummer and composer was awarded the SWR Jazz Prize for this. The release of the chamber music cycle "Henosis" is his first album under his own name. With these "13 Pieces For Chamber Ensemble", Eric Schaefer succeeds in creating an independent musical cosmos that consists of three main sound constituents: flowing free tonality, powerful rhythmic surfaces and a sound that is colorfully designed right down to the noise. Through a variety of instrumental combinations, the ensemble achieves a rich spectrum of color nuances. For the musical jack-of-all-trades, the discourse of genres and musical traditions that are generally seen as contradictory is not a postmodern calculation, but an expression of biographical necessity. "A Nobel Prize-worthy sound researcher," Rolling Stone called him.
