This tune is the third movement from the Cortazar's suite.

Final del juego

Dialogues

Barbarie Capitalista

Zamba Satie

Opositor

Raphaël Vanoli: guitar
Gerri Jaeger: drums
Natalio Sued: saxophone & clarinet


Emerged from the prolific underground music scene of Amsterdam, this astonish band combines aesthetics of jazz with rock sounds and explores divers improvisation’s concepts.

These three musicians have a forming influence through their quest for fresh sounds. Their ambiguous compositions - inspired by rock and pop music as well as jazz and twelve-tone music and their very own energetic way of playing – converge in the uncommon place where all their three different backgrounds can match naturally.  The band concept is way beyond any conventions, clichés and commercial considerations. “Opositor” run contrary to any musical preconceptions amazing us with unexpected metric and harmonic changes or subversive ironic reinterpretations - thus seducing a much diverse audience, to whom traditional jazz concerts had not appealed much until this time.
The music this group is making is as fresh (in both meanings of the word) and innovative as anything on the current world scene - the day has passed when the rest of the world must look towards America for every innovation and inspiration in jazz-influenced modern music. Natalio Sued contributes to the compositions, but in a sense, given the freewheeling disregard for conventional jazz structure and the interplay between the three, each piece is a spontaneous communal composition.

Personal Bios:


Gerri picked up the drums when he was 9 years old. After some brass-band and grunge-metal teenage years he studied jazz at the Conservatories of Innsbruck and Amsterdam. Through years of playing in numerous different bands from free-jazz to alt-rock, playing modern dance-improvs, experimental electronic club music and improvisation, Gerri developed into a flexible listening musician, looking for ways to expand boundaries in music. Current bands include Knalpot, EKE, The Black Napkins, Dutch and Whale Oil. He has performed a.o. with Jozef Dimoluin, Franz Hauzinger, Ron Anderson, Wolter Wierbos, Han Bennink, Ab Baars, Achim Kaufmann, Luc Ex, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Colin Stetson, Shazad Ismaily, Marc Ducret, Frank Möbus, Terrie Ex. Gerri has toured throughout Europe, USA and Brazil, and has released albums on Rat Records, Eat Concrete, Red Note, PAO Records and Cuneiform.

Amsterdam-based french/german guitarist Raphaël Vanoli (20.09.1978 Freiburg) works on a professional level since 2004  and has become one of the most in-demand and versatile guitarists on the dutch musicscene and beyond. Born into a family of solar energy scientists, artists and musicians (his uncle was Czesław Gladkowski, polish doublebass player, multi-instrumentalist and composer), he picked up the guitar at age 12. Over the years he developped a voice of his own by merging his broad knowledge of the guitar and extremely varied electronic∫ setups, having played an eclectic range of styles in many ensembles and bands over the years.

Natalio Sued is considered one of the most representative voices of the new jazz scene in Buenos Aires and a very distinct player and composer among the musicians in Europe.  "He combines the simplicity and expressivity of folk songs with the rhythmic and harmonic complexity of jazz music, which turns out as a very unique sound"  After playing and recording with a bunch of the finest local musicians in Buenos Aires he moved to Amsterdam where he rapidly developed his own music with different groups 
 


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