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Dirk Bruinsma : soprano/baritone sax and composition
Frank Crijns : electric guitar, devices and composition
Paed Conca : electric bass, electronics and composition
Fabrizio Spera : drums, percussion
The group Blast has existed for around 20 years, founded in 1989. As would be expected, the line up and
musical focus has changed quite a bit during that time. The groups musical development has traveled from complex composed art-rock to a much more open style that combines elements of new music and improvisation. Since 2000 we have played as a fixed quartet that can be extended with guest musicians according to what a project requires. At the moment we can play as a quintet, sextet and in combination with a twelve piece chamber music ensemble next to the quartet version. What didn't change is that we still operate internationally and have openness for musical challenge.
IN MAI 2009 THE NEW BLAST(4TET) CD HAD ITS RELEASE.
THE ALBUM IS TITLED "SIFT" AND IS OUT ON THE Recommended Records LABEL OF CHRIS CUTLER.
BLAST 4tet: ''Sift''
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This is the seventh release (& second on ReRrecords), after a long wait, from this unique ensemble. Equally at home with the discipline of composition and the tightrope of improvisation Blast (now Blast 4tet) have evolved a fluid, pointillistic, unfathomable but transparent musical language that seamlessly integrates - over very short durations - highly complex writing and very free ranging improvisation, allowing the two languages to merge and combine into a new kind of logical exposition that makes sense but can't be reverse-engineered into its component parts. This is a music that lives through detail and exposition; neither resolving into composition, nor able properly to be understood as improvisation. In this respect Blast have solved a problem that has defeated many in the last 40 years.
With the quartet we work on music in which composition and improvisation are integrated as much as possible. To achieve this, we work on the development of new ways of notation and interplay. A way of playing in which time is used with an utmost flexibility and where the players are conductors at the same time. In the scores we make use of notation techniques such as graphical writing, polymetrics, free choice of parameters, etc. All that in order to reduce the harshness of transitions between the improvised and composed material, and to create a coherent sound. We add a new dimension by using electronics and electro-acoustics. The range of dynamics becomes wider and the tension between abstract and tonal music is more emphasized. Since we focus on extending the possibilities, the program is renewing itself all the time and no piece sounds the same twice.
Joined by the Turkish-Kazakh singer Saadet Türköz , Blast is playing a program of fully improvised music.Saadet's music is a fusion of modern vocal techniques with those out of the Turkish-Mongolian music tradition. She will be in dialogue with the abstract and dissonant sounds of Blast. This combination makes an obstinate music with moments of raw expression and those of refined lyrical quality. Often Saadet uses fragments of songs from her culture that get new shape by means of language and music deconstruction. At the moment there are plans to reinforce this quintet with guest appearances. On occasions we are working with cellist Martin Schütz or bassclarinettist Hans Koch as guests.
Now the 1st CD of the BLAST-6TET: feat. Saadet Türköz and Hans Koch is out on FMR-Records
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