M.Z.A.L.

is a musical project of Marta Zapparoli & Albrecht Loops.

The Duo focuses on improvisation, live performances, with the use of self-recorded radio waves on tapes, real-time radio detection through the use of antennas and radio receivers, in fusion with amplified electric guitar, extended strings, electronics, and effects. The Duo creates immersive sonic landscapes of obscure noise, and joyful melodies, floating in an ocean of interference. A sonic dialogue between electromagnetic, audio waves, and radio waves.

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Kurzmann/Anker/Sanchez/Daisy

Lotte Anker: saxophones
Christof Kurzmann: lloopp, voc
Paula Sanchez: cello
Tim Daisy: drums, Percussion

Lotte Anker is a Copenhagen-based saxophone player and composer working in the field between experimental jazz/improvisation and contemporary music. Her music includes both melodic (often twisted or fragmented) elements and more abstract textural material and covers a wide territory from minimal, transparency to dense and dark expressionism. Lotte Anker has been initiator and bandleader of a number of highly acclaimed collaborations and groups such as Anker, Taborn, Cleaver (w/ Craig Taborn and Gerald Cleaver), Trio with Sylvie Courvoisier and Ikue Mori, to name a few. Other recent projects are the 8-piece group What River Ensemble, duo with Fred Frith and a quartet with Johannes Bauer, Clayton Thomas and Paul Lovens.
Lotte has performed at major festivals and concert spaces in most of Europe, USA, Canada, Asia, Africa and the Middle-East and has also played and toured with Marilyn Crispell, Herb Robertson, Tim Berne, Okkyung Lee, Paal Nilssen-Love, Joelle Leandre, Raymond Strid, Sten Sandell, Andrew Cyrille, Phil Minton, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Peter Friis-Nielsen and many others. Compositional work includes music for both small group and large ensemble and for both contemporary new music and modern/experimental jazz ensembles – and a combination of these.

Christof Kurzmann started in the legendary Austrian avant-rock duo Extended Versions in the early 90s, founded the Orchester 33 1/3 and the label charhizma, and is active today in the groups Schnee (with Burkhard Stangl), EL INFIERNO MUSICAL (with Ken Vandermark, Dave Rempis, Katinka Kleijn, Lia Kohl and Lily Finnegan) Disquiet (with Joe Williamson and Martin Brandlmayr), The Magic I.D. (with Margarreth Kammerer, Michael Thieke and Kai Fagashinski) and others.

Located at the intersection of experimental music, free improvisation and performance, Paula Sanchez’s work focuses on the composition / decomposition / destruction / reconstruction of a changing sound space. Initially active as a performer and composer in the fields of theater and performance, she has been active in the field of contemporary music and improvisation since 2018 and is characterized by the use of extended techniques and unconventional ways of playing, working with materials such as plastic, glass and elements from nature in combination with voice and electronics.

Daisy has been working in the Chicago music scene since 1997, including as a soloist, member of chamber music and jazz ensembles as well as for dance, theater and film productions. Since 2001 he has been a member of Ken Vandermark’s quintet; he has also played with Joe McPhee, John Tchicai, Fred Lonberg-Holm, James Falzone, Steve Swell, Jeb Bishop, Fred Anderson, Aram Shelton, Mark Tokar, Matt Piet and Dave Rempis, with whom he released the duo album Back to the Circle (Okka Disc) in 2005. He was also a member of the Rempis Percussion Quartet (Sud des alpes, 2021). He recorded the duo album Boombox Babylon (Utech) with Frank Rosaly in 2005. In 2013 he released the album A Fine Day in Berlin, with Clayton Thomas (bass) and Håvard Wiik (piano), in 2016 the album On the A and on the B in duo with Per Åke Holmlander, in 2017 Red Nation “1” (Relay Recordings) and Tim Daisy’s Celebration Sextet: The Halfway There Suite (Relay Recordings).
In 2011, he received the New Music America Composers Assistance Award and the ASCAP Plus Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for his work as a composer. In the field of jazz, Daisy participated in 84 recording sessions between 2001 and 2017.

Discography (excerpt):

• October Music Vol. 1 – 7 Compositions for Duet (Relay, 2014, mit Dave Rempis, James Falzone, Katherine Young, Marc Riordan, Jason Adasiewicz, Josh Berman, Jen Clare Paulson)
• October Music Vol. 2 – 7 Compositions for Duet (Relay, 2016, mit Andrew Clinkman, Mars Williams, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Ryan Packard, Russ Johnson, Aaron Zarzutzki, Clark Sommers)
• Darren Johnston & Tim Daisy: Crossing Belmont (Relay Digital, 2017)
• October Music – Vol 3 – 7 Compositions For Duet (Relay, 2017, mit Paul Giallorenzo, Macie Stewart, Nick Mazzarella, Lia Kohl, Steve Marquette, Matthew Lux, Angel Bat Dawid)
• Dave Rempis, Elisabeth Harnik, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Tim Daisy: Earscratcher (2023)
• Sebastian Strinning / Tim Daisy: Castle and Sun (2023)
• Kyle Bruckmann, Tim Daisy, Phillip Greenlief, Lisa Mezzacappa: Semaphore (2023)