Electric Umbrella #26 with Hugo Costa & Vasco Trilla, Jan Schellink, Jean-Philippe Gross

Jean-Philippe Gross At the crossroads of electronic and instrumental music, Jean-Philippe Gross develops a physical relationship with sound, playing with ruptures and acoustic phenomena. In concert, he collaborates with eRikm, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Axel Doerner, Jérôme Noetinger, Marc Baron, Christine Abdelnour, Clare Cooper (Nevers). Never locked into any systematism, Jean-Philippe Gross allows himself the extremes to take advantage of a wide field of possibilities and pays particular attention to the timbre, the grain and the quality of the sound, even rough. Jan Schellink Schellink, de man zonder concessies maar met een liefde voor impulsieve muziek en je in het zweet werken. Muziek maken op alleen het gehoor (in duo’s of trio’s) zonder afspraken waar het publiek niet bij in slaap valt is zijn passie. Nou ….. een afspraak dan …. en dat is wanneer per improvisatie zich het einde aandient er meteen gehoor aan geven. Hugo Costa & Vasco Trilla – Hugo Costa: sax – Vasco Trilla: drums/percussion Hugo Costa and Vasco Trilla approach free improvisation with an emphasis on spontaneity and focused deep-listening. Their musical vocabulary embraces the unexpected: exploring textural, rhythmic sound fields with developmental arcs patiently unfolding… Hugo Costa is a Portuguese saxophonist based in Rotterdam, working in the field between free improvisation and avant-garde music, exploring melodic abstraction and harmonic tonal shifting using textural material with a wide range of extended techniques, he plays in projects ranging from modern jazz to free jazz, jazzcore or free improvisation. He has toured extensively in Europe and performed in Japan. Vasco Trilla is one of the most active, versatile and creative drummers of the Barcelona scene. He has recorded more than 100 albums ranging from free improvisation, jazz rock to progressive rock metal and ambient music, on well-known labels such as Clean Feed Records, Cuneiform Records and FMR. The key attributes of his success seem to consist of the three factors: imagination, cross-genre experience in performing music and the constant search for expanding the limits of the instrument.