Jazzdor gave singer and bassoonist Sophie Bernado ‘carte blanche’ to work with musicians from a wide range of backgrounds on this new project, which was created at last June's Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin-Dresden festival. Marie-Pascale Dubé is a specialist in Inuit throat singing, Taiko Saito is one of Germany's most eclectic vibraphonists, and Joachim Florent is a double bass player constantly on the look-out for new sound territories.  Sophie Bernado has conceived her creation as a palette of colours, with so many textural possibilities offered by the instrumentarium. The multi-faceted quartet will take us on a journey between contemporary musings and world music, between improvisation and classical influences, in the ethereal clouds of the imagination.

Founded by Zürich tenor saxophonist Christoph Irniger, the Pilgrim quintet has become one of the most exciting small ensembles on the European scene over the past fifteen years. Part of a hyper-contemporary movement that, from Berlin to New York, has based its uniqueness on the fruitful ambiguity between written and improvised parts in order to invent new, open and evolving forms, Christoph Irniger and his comrades have invented a music that is luxuriant, stimulating and inventive – at the same time very precisely organised in its playing systems and constantly shaped by the transgressive power of the improvised gesture. Fully in tune with the most modernist and experimental trends in contemporary post-jazz, Pilgrim greedily explores the still uncharted areas where the music of the future is being invented.

Jazzpassage: Franco-German evenings programmed in partnership with Kulturbüro Offenburg / With the support of AJC

Pilgrim: concert proposed in partnership with AJC - Pro Helvetia

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