The trio of the Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli unifies three strong-willed musicians of the young generation who have been influenced by the most varied musics and who simultaneously blaze their own path through a new obscurity that the Postmodern and current tendencies have triggered. With ZOOM, Lucas Niggli can unify his numerous likings for Jazz (the drive, the energy, and the idiomatic-improvisatory freedom) as well as that for new music (tonal and interpretational culture). With ultimate concentration, this small and agile group speeds through the heights and depths of today’s music: here a nod at tradition, there a jump into the unknown, always up to tricks, all of which guarantees that seriousness will never turn into solemnity. The compositions of Lucas Niggli are tonally balanced, play with the most various dramatuguries and energies, are relaxed and simultaneously highly energetic. The joy of playing, embedded in a beautiful "group chemistry” allows the pieces to ring out freshly again and again. Lightness is a central point in Lucas Niggli’s music. Via this "filigreed” grouping with two tenor instruments (trombone and guitar) and drums, as well as with the excellent musicians Philipp Schaufelberger (a great tonal aesthete) and Nils Wogram (THE complete trombonist), complex, even abstract passages sound light as a feather.

Nils Wogram - trombone
Philipp Schaufelberger - guitar
Lucas Niggli - drums & percussion

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