Grev, virtuosity, humor and poetry

Over the next week, the Swiss groups Vein and Plastow will go to tours in Russia - two piano trio, that is, nominally two classic jazz compositions. But you will not find nothing in common other than a set of tools.

Plaistow , for example, generally have a very distant one to be understood by the word "jazz". On the other hand, with this word, as you know, there are great terminological problems: everyone understands it in their own way. An extra evidence of this is the award that the jury awarded Plaistow as a “best young jazz group of Switzerland” several years ago.

“The fact that Duke Ellington played in the 30s, that Ornett Colemen played in the 60-70s, what they play today is all very different music, but nevertheless all this is called jazz,” says leader Trio Johan Burkeneza. -Someone may say that jazz is swing, square and walking bass. Someone will say that jazz is personal freedom. And for me, for example, the last one is true. But at the same time, jazz today has largely turned into something such bourgeois, conservative and boring, so it’s strange for me to call myself a jazz pianist. ”

Equal rights for all three tools!

The term "postjaz" Burkenez also does not complain, but they have not come up with anything better to designate such music. By paraphrasing the classical definition given by Simon Reynolds, it can be said that Plaistow play music in which on the basis of jazz instrumental composition (and in the case of burkenees with comrades - also appropriate education), the problems are solved, jazz is completely unusual. Maybe it was worth starting with the fact that these Swiss named their group not in honor of the same area in the eastern part of London, but in honor of the final track on the GO Plastic album of the British luminary IDM and Brekbit Squarepusher - this immediately clarifies a lot. Indeed, Plaistow's music is very close to melancholy, “slow music with quick drums”, which was composed by British electronic workers in the late 90s and early 2000s. With the reservation that these Swiss does not fundamentally use any electronics and do not exclude live improvisation on the stage from their arsenal.

The Vein group plays music, much closer to jazz in its classic form, and at times can even brush into the Bill Evans trio in a playful mood. In general, typical jazz wit and healthy humor is one of the distinctive features of Vein . For example, the last album of the Vote for Vein trio was accompanied by the subtitle of “Three People Canm Be Wrong” and contained plays with names like “Now We Canhet - Vote for US Anyway!” . With the same ease as well -known slogans, the Swiss are also approaching the classic of jazz. The Vein repertoire has many most standard standards, up to Summertime , but they are certainly turned inside out, but not by means of free jazz, but on the contrary-with the help of sophisticated composer thought and virtuoso, but quite conventional improvisation.

In general, everything you need to know about the trio is contained as a trailer for the album “Vote for Vein” (above), in which the Swiss compare their extensive European tour with the election campaign and put forward their musical and political requirements and values: “Equal rights for all three instruments”, “Unity of composition, arrangements and improvisation”, “Groove,“ Groove, “Grooves, Grooves,“ Gruv, “Gruv,“ Gruv, “Grooves,“ Grooves, “Ground Virtuosity, humor and poetry. "

Tour schedule

Vein

April 5 (Saturday) - Izhevsk, Philharmonic
April 6 (Sunday) - Dubna
April 7 (Monday) - Kaliningrad, "Drednout"
April 8 (Tuesday)-St. Petersburg, JFC
April 9 (Wednesday) - Nizhny Novgorod
April 10 (Thursday) - Moscow, house
April 11 (Friday) - Krasnoyarsk, Philharmonic
April 12 (Saturday) - Ukmerge, Lithuania
April 13 (Sunday) - Minsk, Philharmonic

Plaistow

April 9 (Wednesday) - Protvino
April 10 (Thursday) - Novosibirsk, "Pipe"
April 11 (Friday) - Krasnoyarsk, Philharmonic
April 12 (Saturday) - Tomsk, Aelita
April 13 (Sunday)-St. Petersburg, White Hall of Polytechnic University
April 14 (Monday) - Pskov, Philharmonic
April 16 (Wednesday) - Cheboksary
April 17 (Thursday) - Kazan, "Old Piano", 20:00
April 18 (Friday) - Moscow, house
April 19 (Saturday) - Dubna, administration hall