Muriel Grossmann

MURIEL GROSSMANN QUARTET:-------------------------------------------- Composition and its performance can have an organic relationship, a balance between written and improvised. Muriel Grossmann’s wide compositional and performing talents reflect in four voice pieces like DIVERSITY and QUINTESSENCE, suite-like pieces like FLUEGEL and ECHO or brisk and energetic compositions like ANDREW. The quartet, composed of RADOMIR MILOJKOVIC on guitar, DAVID MARROQUIN on upright bass and MARKO JELACA on drums, have become a sound lab - a group, where compositional ideas can be worked out, developed and eventually recorded. Austrian alto and soprano saxophonist-composer MURIEL GROSSMANN states that her music started to move beyond harmony - melodies themselves became more independent of the harmony, and strengthens the idea of improvising phrases and not clichés. Grossmann weaves lines with phrases from the theme; she spins developments from new motives with hard driving rhythmic figures, which makes interpretation an exciting and kicking experience. Muriel Grossmann’s music is complex, calling for a similar depth of emotional response from the listener, but at the same time the music is highly swinging, to move the body as well as the spirit. This music provides the proof of her singular force of emotions and musical imagination. Although Grossmann’s music strongly reflects her own temperament, it is nonetheless sufficiently open to allow other individualist to be themselves within it. Muriel Grossmann as a saxophonist-composer is building a very personal and substantial style and body of work. There is a real motivation in Grossmann’s music and a desire to keep finding out who she is and to make her music out of that deepening knowledge. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------ GROSSMANN/MILOJKOVIC/PELLICO- (New CD: SUDDEN IMPACT, out in january 2009): Muriel Grossmann s thoughts through music on nature,todays world and meaning of existence involve uncommon intensity of expression. While Grossmann does dig deeply into herself in these explorations, her corollary concern is then to communicate as fully as she can, what she is in process of discovering. It is as if she, Milojkovic and Pellico were speaking as if their insights were of such compelling force that they have to transcend ordinary ways of musical speech and textures to be able to convey challenging discovery. As the instruments reach into themselves and across to each other, they embrace the whole in one sense. Much like wave breaking on top of a sea, that is constantly in motion, constantly in change, effecting and being effected by all of its parts. ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------- MURIEL GROSSMANN/UNO P.: saxophone and drums. Intuitive Musik based on the hearing here and now. One first cd is available for the time being. ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------- listen to good music ontaransfreejazzhour