Yellow
Blaer
As heard on its impressive third album, Yellow, Blaer lives somewhere between jazz and the structural realm of new music. Centering this unique Swiss quintet is pianist/composer Maja Nydegger,...
Yellow
Blaer
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As heard on its impressive third album, Yellow, Blaer lives somewhere between jazz and the structural realm of new music. Centering this unique Swiss quintet is pianist/composer Maja Nydegger,...
About
BLAER is: Maja Nydegger, piano and compoition; Nils Fischer, saxophone, bass clarinet; Claudio von Arx, saxophone ; Simon Iten, double bass; Philippe Ducommun, drums.
The band concept sets on a balanced group sound and a calm, focussed flow of music. By this genuine attitude of a differenciated common ground, this album develops an urgency and power which in all coolness radiates warmth.
Contents and tracklist
Yellow
The Unknown
Years
Kosmo
Epilog
All We Need
Arktis
Awards and reviews
July 2020
As heard on its impressive third album, Yellow, Blaer lives somewhere between jazz and the structural realm of new music. Centering this unique Swiss quintet is pianist/composer Maja Nydegger, whose natural idiom-crossing feats find ways of energizing her largely minor-mode palette.
