Sojourn
CD CSM/DSM 4755
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Sojourn
Hermann
Bühler clarinet, flute
Lisa Moskow sarod
Geoffrey Gordon tabla
"When
the musician's imagination is global it liberates the instrument from
both geography and culture, from any particular genre or idiom.
sojourn is a joint venture of American sarodist Lisa Moskow and
Swiss reed player Hermann Bühler, accompained on this recordings by tabla
player Geoffrey Gordon. This unusual journey provides myriad glimpses
into boundless new musical possibilities.
Likewise, through interwoven and keenly balanced
cycles of rhythm and melody, the clarinet and the Nordindian sarod of
SOJOURN create expansive moments of pleasure and charm. Through their
combination of reverence and restlessness, they preserve the dignity of
their many musical sources while creating worlds that have never existed
until now."
Dirk Richardson, Bay Guardian San Francisco
sojourn features the original music of sarodist Lisa Moskow and clarinetist Hermann Bühler. They have been performing since 1992 with various world music percussionists, including Geoffrey Gordon, Amit Thakur and, most recently, Rami Ziadeh.
The compositions of Hermann Bühler and Lisa Moskow reflect their backgrounds, Bühler as a major player in the European free jazz/new music scene and Moskow as a veteran musician of the North Indian classical tradition.
These diverse elements are seamlessly fused together and as such have come to represent a new genre: world beat, world jazz or East-West fusion might be appropriate names. The music is based on distinctive rhythmic cycles, exotic scales, ostinatos and improvisation. Improvisation is woven into the fabric of the music so as to breathe new life into each performance.
Hermann Bühler and Lisa Moskow met in Los Angeles in 1990 where they were invited to play in a quartet with cello and voice at Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles. In 1992 they played their music in a concert at Installation Check-Point/Escher-Wyss in Zurich, Switzerland. Since that time they have performed several tours in California, Switzerland, Italy and Mexico.