The Notebook Large Ensemble is:
*Frantz Loriot (France) - viola, composition
*Manuel Perovic (Switzerland) - composition, arrangement, conducting
*Joachim Badenhorst (Belgium) - clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor sax
*Sandra Weiss (Switzerland) - alto sax, bassoon
*Matthias Spillmann (Switzerland) - trumpet, flugelhorn
*Silvio Cadotsch (Switzerland) - trombone
*Deborah Walker (Italy) - cello, voice
*Dave Gisler (Switzerland) - guitar
*Silvan Jeger (Switzerland) - double bass, voice
*Yuko Oshima (Japan) - drums

Recorded live at Moods (Zurich, CH) on April 2014.
Mixed by Aaron Nevezie at Bunker Studios (Brooklyn, NY) and mastered by Jim Clouse at Park West studios (Brooklyn, NY). Produced by Frantz Loriot. 

Notebook Large Ensemble - Urban Furrow - West 4th

David Fenech (born in 1969) is a French musician living in Paris. He plays a large variety of instrument and is a skilled guitar player with his own technique. His main instrument is the microphone and his music features whatever he puts under it. His baroque style has been described as ‘a kind of punk musique concrète’...

He has played and recorded with musicians such as Jac Berrocal, Jah Wobble, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Felix Kubin, Jad Fair, Tom Cora, Rhys Chatham, James Plotkin, Shugo Tokumaru, Ergo Phizmiz, Nurse With Wound, Pierre Bastien, Jean-Hervé Peron and many others. His recordings have been published on Cold Spring, Sub Rosa, Blackest Ever Black, Wergo, Gagarin Records, Jelodanti, inPolysons...

"One of my alltime favourites" (Felix Kubin)

"Truly unpredictable, you never know where any given tune is heading, or which stylistic outfit he is going to whip out next from his magic trunk of disguises. He makes it look easy, but you can bet there’s 500 kilograms of sheer talent and hard work behind his every move. Recommended! " (Ed Pinsent - The Sound Projector)

Klaus Bru / 卡

C-Melody & C-Soprano Saxophone, Flute, Electronics

Klaus Bru (卡 = pronounced Kaa) is one of only a few saxophonists performing exclusively on the rare C-Melody and C-Soprano saxes -- instruments which were extremely popular in the 1920’s. These antiquities sound utterly contemporary in Bru’s hands, particularly when he furnishes them with electronic treatment.

German born Klaus Bru has traveled widely, for real and in music. His musical concepts are not exactly the “out-of-the-box” type, and his artistic output is characterized by its variety: He brings in the folk music of the world (typically from Eastern Europe and Turkey), Avant-garde ridden improvisation concepts, air sounds and electronic noises, strange meters and odd tempos, plus -- last but not least -- singable melodies over the moving chords of jazz standards or his own compositions.

Klaus Bru was a well-known protagonist of the Vienna Jazz scene in the early 1990’s, and the Berlin Avant-Garde music scene in the late 1990’s. From 2002 - 2011 he lived in Taipei/Taiwan, where he became infused with indigenous music styles from various parts of the world. 

Klaus Bru has performed with the many musicians of the Taiwanese jazz and avant-garde music scene. He is the leader of the FolkRockJazz Trio ‘I Have A New Band Now’ (including Belgian bassist Martijn Vanbuel and Italian drummer Pietro Valente), and co-leader of the acclaimed Taiwanese group ‘Ka Dao Yin’ (卡到音), which stands at the crossroads of Contemporary Classical Music, Jazz, and Chinese Folk Music.

Klaus Bru has performed and recorded in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. with such diverse musicians as Franz Hautzinger, Peter Herbert, Bilal Karaman, Shih-Yang Lee (李世揚), Michael Moser, Sunny Murray, Marc Ribot, Martin Stepanik, Sabu Toyozumi, Chaoming Tung, to name just a few. Currently, he lives in London. 

Moreover, Klaus Bru has composed music for dance (‘Alex B: The Lefthanded Man’, Berlin 1999), theater (‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Steirischer Herbst, Graz/Austria, 1993’) and film (‘Mascara’ Taipei 2004), published a CD with electronic music (‘Collective Items’, 1998), created and produced interactive sound installations (‘Tiefenrausch’, Aktionsgalerie Berlin, 1997), collaborated with electronic artist Oliver Doerell (Dictaphone, Swod), worked as the international promoter for the Chinese music group Chaifound Music Workshop (采風樂坊) from Taiwan, and taught master classes on various musical topics.



I am a singer, and playing a concertina (small accordion)

Notebook Large Ensemble - Urban Furrow - West 4th

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