" from no-noise to post-noise" Markus Breuss, an emblematic figure of creative freedom, is an eclectic and innovative composer, trumpeter and creator of electronic music and one of the most singular composers and multi-instrumentalists within the European musical scene. Alternating between Spain with extended periods in India, Breuss combines oriental influences with classical, popular, and experimental elements in his music. He is the founder of the innovative Spanish group Clonicos and breaks new ground in his improvisational work with Scorecrackers, Kalimpong Trio and the Trio Peregrino.
Markus Breuss was born in Altstätten (Switzerland) in 1956.
His father Joseph Breuss, a trumpet player in the Symphony Orchestra of St. Gallen, taught him how to play the trumpet, and launched his performing career as a trumpet player in the Opera Aida by Verdi.
Grounded in classical music, he branched out into jazz and rock, and soon began to develop his own sound .
Markus Breuss has registered more than 2008 works, and collaborated with artists/groups such as Malcolm Goldstein, Taller de Musica Mundana, Derribos Arias, Los Pekenikes, Fatima Miranda, Finis Africae, Mil Dolores Pequeños and Macromassa to name just a few.
Markus Breuss has performed at numerous prestigious venues including Fundacion Joan Miro (Barcelona), Arco (Madrid), New Jazz Festival Moers (Germany), Actual Festival (Logroño), LEM-Festival (Barcelone), International Festival of Electroacoustic Music (Madrid), Hurta Cordel Festival of Improvised Music (Madrid), Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), and the National Auditorium of Music (Madrid), Impromusica Fes (Yokohama), etc.
His compositions have been played all over Europe, in Uruguay, Morocco, India and Japan.
In 2001, he opened the Spanish concert of the SUN RA Archestra in Huesca with his solo performance of “Awake Huâ€. In June 2007, he premiered a solo concert for trumpets, experimental electronic sounds and field-recordings and recently, he toured Japan with Tsukiko Amakawa, his co-musician in the Duo FAKTOR BOSSAR.
Markus Breuss lives at the Costa del Sol in Spain, where he is regarded a very special figure in the local high-life.
His passion for music is only equaled by his love for Indian cooking.
(Victor Nubla)Discography-Seguridad y Televisión (cassette, Cloned Tapes, 1984)
-Tubes and Cubes (cassette, Toracic Tapes, 1989)
-Desnudo (Hyades Arts, 1992 / Doronko Records, 2000, cassette - CD)
-Awake Hu (CD, CEDI, 1999)
-Zwei Kompositionen (CD, Doronko Records, 1999)
-Muda na Kenshin - Devoción Inútil (CD, Doronko Records, 021, 2000)
-Conferencia Sonora (CD, Doronko Records 025, 2002)Compilations:-Richard Kimball es inocente (partes l a lV) (Schwarzkopf", cassette, Toracic -Tapes, 1989)
-Entschlüsse ("Franz Kafka", cassette, Hyades Arts, 1991)
-An Urban Meeting ("Audioscope", CD, Geometrik, 1992)
-The Return of Monster Magnet ("Unmatched Evangelio 2º", CD, Hall Of Fame, 1997)
-Modelo Piloto 2.5 (Book-Record "Laboratorio", El Europeo, 2001)
-Markus Breuss_Nilo Gallego: LeonCage (CD, Doronko Records, 2001)4 Sun Ra en Huesca 2001
DEXIDRINA 32. LIVE IN MADRID with Nilo Gallego, Pablo Rega
"Pasaje" Markus Breuss with La Banda Municipal de Barcelona
with Clónicos:-Aspetti Diversi (LP/CD, Linterna, 1985)
-Figuras Españolas (LP, Gasa, 1988)
-Copa De Veneno (CD/LP/cassette, Ed. Cúbicas, 1990)
-Esquizodelia (CD, Triquinoise, 1995)
-Clónicos/1996 - El mundo del fin del tiempo (Soundtrack) (CD, Doronko, 2001)
-Burnt Hits (CD, Doronko, compilation, 2002)
with OCQ:-OCQ (LP/CD, Linterna, 1986)
-Metalógica (LP, Linterna, 1988)with Scorecrackers:-Eating Flowers (CD, Por Caridad, 1997)
-x2 d2 (unpublished track on "Trienni" CD, G3G/Talp Club, 1999)with Kalimpong Trio:
Markus Breuss - Margarita Blanca Laginestra - Victor Manuel M. Vázquez-Washi Chiyogami (CD, Hazard Records, 2000)with Trio Peregrino:
Gregorio Kazaroff - Iñaki Rios - Markus Breuss:-En el Albergue de Peregrinos (CD recorded -live- in León, Doronko Records, 2002)trumpets & horns Markus Breuss plays
with Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet:
-Concert for Kowald (CD, Hazard Records, 2003)
-Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet: Nfamoudou-Boudougou (CD, Hazard Records, 2004)with Faktor Bossar:-Tsukiko Amakawa-Markus Breuss: Slow & Hard (CD, Doronko Records, 2003)
-Markus Breuss-Tsukiko Amakawa: 7 pm Eastern Wartime (CD, Doronko Records, 2003)
-Faktor Bossar (Breuss_Amakawa): Days of Cries and Poses (CD, Doronko Records, 2005)3 TRUMPETS
IMAXINA SONS / Festival de Jazz de Vigo
Markus Breuss : Chips y Columnas De Aire (Chips and Air Columns)
Markus Breuss describes his own show as an electroacoustic ritual: with the help of digital sound processors and field recordings, he produces alternative sounds and tunes. The trumpets he uses are varied, and include the Australian didgeridoo, the Tibetan kang-ling (manufactured with a human thighbone), the Indian shanka (a type of sea shell), the Bolivian pututu, etc. His contribution to modern music is one of merger of electronics —and the different possibilities it provides— with the natural sounds of the instruments he plays, including a number of small percussion devices that enrich his music.
Markus Breuss has worked and recorded with pop, rock, jazz, improvisation and experimental ensembles, as well as with classical and contemporary music groups. In 2001, he played is Huesca (Spain) as the supporting instrumentalist for a Sun Ra Arkestra concert, led by Marshall Allen.
Apart form composing for his own musical projects, (O.C.Q., Clónicos, Scorecrackers, Faktor Bossar, etc.), he has often been commissioned to write symphonic and electroacoustic compositions.
Markus Breuss: Western trumpet, ethnic trumpets and electronics DEXIDRINA 32
Festival Hurta Cordel (Madrid 2006)
