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Jürg Wickihalder: Saxophone Intakt Records 2017-1 CHF 30.00 
Release Date : 18. April 2017 |
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Barry Guy: Bass, Director Intakt Records 2016-4 CHF 30.00
After his great compositions for the London Jazz Composers Orchestra and the Barry Guy New Orchestra, Barry Guy has written a large scale work for a new international ensemble. |
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Savina Yannatou – voice Nottwo Records 2016-3 CHF 45.00
The legendary Alchemia Club in Krakow (Poland) has played and continues to play |
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Aly Keïta: Balafon, Kalimba Intakt Records 2016-2 CHF 30.00
Aly Keïta is one of the grand masters of the balafon, the West African xylophone. The Ivorian musician fits the balafon in interaction with artists such as Joe Zawinul, Omar Sosa and Jan Garbarek. Together with the Swiss clarinetist Jan Galega Brönnimann and Swiss drummer Lucas Niggli Keïta mixes the traditional African repertoire with Western jazz, Improvisation and African rhythms. This "Brotherhood of vibes and grooves" takes the audience on an adventurous ride. |
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Jonathan Maag/Michael Gilsenan, tenor saxophone NEOS Jazz 2016-1 CHF 30.00
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Michel Godard: serpent, electric bass Intuition Records 2015-2 CHF 30.00
Godard, who has earned the reputation as one of Europe's most
important musicians in the border area between jazz, improvisation, folk
and classical music since the late 1980s thanks to a number of
exceptional releases, has included the serpent repeatedly in his
concerts and on his CDs for quite some time. Now, the French exceptional
artist has devoted an album exclusively to the "serpent" for the first
time to emphasize its magical, mysterious and ultimately very human
facets. This was a labor of love for the 54-year-old. He moves on a
timeline between past and present with the serpent. In the process, he
tells stories that can shine in different colors and change direction at
any time. The instrument actually resembles a large snake as a result.
The sounds unfold in wondrous twists and turns like dreams in the mirror
of time. |
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Lorenz Raab Trumpet UNIT Records 2015-1 CHF 30.00
The new album of the Lorenz Raab Quartet is full of energy, with a desire to collectively reach a point of frenzy. |
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Andreas Schaerer Voice, Electronics Lucas Niggli Drums, Percussion Intakt Records 2014 CHF 30.00
Just vocals and drums – that’s the line-up of the dream team of Andreas Schaerer and Lucas Niggli. Outstanding virtuosity and enormous creativity combined with the intuition of sleepwalkers, produces an astonishing sound universe full of surprises. The imagination and ability of the two musicians to communicate and react is key to their free improvisations, which nevertheless are very precise. The album was recorded in the legendary “Loft” club in Cologne and is a mixture of live and studio recordings. The result is music played on the first instruments of mankind – voice and drum – which is opulent and impulsive, direct and delicate. |
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Andreas Schaerer Voice Jazzwerkstatt 2013-5 CHF 30.00
The Live Recording from Jazzwerkstatt Bern Festival. February 2013. Wonderfull Sound, Mixed and Mastered by Martin Ruch/Weltschall. |
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Luciano Biondini: Accordeon Intakt Records 2013-4 CHF 30.00
Mavì is the title of the Biondini-Godard-Niggli trio's second CD. It refers to a clear blue, the colour seen when looking at the earth from outer space. And it says a lot about the sounds it offers us. We hear music which seems to emanate from the spheres while remaining wholly worldly, emotional and sensual. The trio formed by Luciano Biondini, Michel Godard and Lucas Niggli is unusual in various senses. |
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Elliott Sharp: Guitars Intakt Records 2013-3 CHF 30.00
During the two-weeks festival by Intakt Records at John Zorn's club The Stone in New York's East Village, Sharp-Gibbs-Niggli performed for the first time. Three musicians with diverse backgrounds and biographies, but a very clear common goal: instant composing with hypertension, where Elliott Sharp’s blues, Melvin Gibb’s funk and Lucas Niggli’s drive found perfectly together to celebrate an unique music with no borders, lots of colours and massiv energy. On the very day after the three musicians went for to a brooklyn-studio and recorded the CD "Crossing the Waters". Excursions in the adventurous tonal landscapes based on blues, rock and free music. |
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Dominik Blum, Hammond C3 Organ all compositions © michael wertmüller (Ex-Alboth!, Full Blast etc.] Trost Records 2013-1 CHF 30.00
Supposedly the big step’s been taken, the novel sphere captured and developed. The future of music is now! - as it has been for almost twenty years. Steamboat Switzerland is part of an Avant-Garde movement that, despite having aged, has remained unattainable. This particularly bears upon the musical music, the energy, virtuosity and precision, with which Dominik Blum, Marino Pliakas and Lucas Niggli go about their work. And there is of course the mastermind behind this non-pareil, erratic Rock Avant-garde, that is currently being ennobled by the establishment as the exotic alternative: Composer Michael Wertmüller. |
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Steamboat Switzerland Extended: d.b.waves Records 2013 CHF 30.00
Finally the trio Steamboat Switzerland Extended, enlarged to a bigband is audible on CD! |
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Paul Plimley piano Intakt Records 2012 CHF 30.00
The album contains distillations of their "live"-performances – pieces with a sharp focus often developed out of quiet sequences. "There is a remarkable sensitivity, which truly shines in the slow numbers", writes Marc Chénard in the liner notes. "On the flip side of the coin, they can push and shove with the best of them, and there are more than a handful of those moments, too. Most importantly, though, this spirited team shows us how true freedom lay not only at the outer limits but also within them." |
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Lucas Niggli Drums, Percussion Edition Therme Vals 2011-4 CHF 30.00
With unbridled energy and artistic merit, Lucas Niggli and Peter Conradin Zumthor created a sound experience in the thermal bath that is profoundly affecting. They skilfully interpret the commissioned works that were composed specially for the Therme Vals and the Drum Duo Niggli Zumthor by Barry Guy and Fritz Hauser and complement the work with their own compositions of utter expres- siveness. The result is a moving and inebriating sound experience, first performed in September 2011 and recorded live in the Therme Vals. |
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Anne La Berge: Flutes, Electronics Intakt Records 2011-4 CHF 30.00
Lucas Nggli has rebuild BIG ZOOM. Two experienced improvisators of great reputation, the English bassist Barry Guy and the American flutist Anne La Berge joined the regulars Philipp Schaufelberger (electric guitar) and Nils Wogram (trombone). “I wanted to have distinct characters”, Niggli justified his choice. After extremely working on sheet music with the Arte Quartett Niggli pushed back to freedom, embracing a concept that gives more room to improvisation and tonality of the E-music avant-garde without disposing of the eloquence and refinement of the virtuoso jazz playing Schaufelberger and Wogram are so experienced in. |
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Rolando Lamussene - Djembe, Voice, Mbira, Percussion Intakt Records 2011-3 CHF 30.00
The Fellowship of the Drums is a unique road-movie, which follows the Lucas Niggli Drum Quartet Beat Bag Bohemia acros Africa and Europe. Camera: Nathalie Haarhoff, Martin Fuchs |
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Luciano Biondini accordeon Michel Godard tuba, serpent, ebass Lucas Niggli Intakt Records 2011-2 CHF 30.00
When Luciano Biondini, Michel Godard und Lucas Niggli play music together the borders between Early and New Music, between imaginary folk and jazz inspired improvisation blur. One can picture the virtual meeting point at the border triangle between Italy, France and Switzerland. That would be – and the image of the heights is not altogether out of place – on the peak of Mont Dolent, close to the Mont Blanc. But still this game fences off any territorial and stylistic definition. Alpine as well as Mediterranean, delicately woven yet permeated with strong melodies driven by frequently complex rhythms that are strong and sensitive at the same time, the three create great arches – across the times, the emotional states of mind, regions and continents. Learning by heart and |
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Lorenz Raab (A, trp) UNIT Records 2011-12 CHF 30.00
Viennese trumpet player Lorenz Raab continues to surprise as an artist with imaginative concepts and an open outlook towards the future. In his unorthodox band-projects ":xy band" and "BLEU" he proves this in remarkable continuity. His new quartet "expanded" is a completely new formation of musical partners from all corners of Europe. |
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Felix Profos, Komposition, Keyboard ZHdK Records / Zürich 2011 CHF 30.00
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Dominik Blum - Hammond Organ, Analogue Electronics, Synths, Vocals Marino Pliakas - E-Bass Lucas Niggli - Drums, Percussion GROB 2010 CHF 30.00
The German Radio SWR and Steamboat Switzerland commissioned the composition " Get Out Of My Room " by Swiss composer Felix Profos for the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2006, which is NOW finally available on a great recording. The 4 modules by Profos are surrounded by very intense improvs by Steamboat Switzerland. |
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Lucas Niggli Drums, Percussion, Gongs Not Two Records 2009-5 CHF 30.00
Alfred Zimmerlin in the Linernotes:....Music that is abrasive and hard. Unwavering. Primal. Robotic. The two percussion assemblies don't give off the standard sound of drums and cymbals; metallic sounds - in one sense "impure" - have been prepared instead. Their sound grates even though it is muffled. The sounds of the drums and bells don't ring out and it's difficult to establish their pitch, but every composition is a transparent conglomeration of precisely chosen and balanced sounds. .....They've managed to achieve more than a "snapshot" of a live performance, precisely because, with extreme sensitivity to the kinetic and cathartic character of the compositions, they have created a musical space that allows the disc to be experienced as a complete entity. The speakers send out a work composed of sound, time and space moving in equal measure the listener's mind, heart and body. |
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Barry Guy: Director, Bass Intakt Records 2009-2 CHF 30.00
"A great anthem. Barry Guy's "Harmos" resembles a musical manifesto – a work which sets structure and freedom in a dialectic field of tension and commits itself to one of the fundamental characteristics of music: melody. A celebration, a ceremony.” |
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Barry Guy:director, bass, Irène Schweizer: piano, Evan Parker: reeds, Mats Gustafsson: reeds, Trevor Watts: reeds, Simon Picard: reeds, Pete McPhail: reeds, Conrad Bauer: tmb, Johannes Bauer: tmb, Alan Tomlinson: tmb, Henry Lowther: tpt, Herb Robertson: tpt, Rich Laughlin: tpt, Per Åke Holmlander, tuba, Phil Wachsmann: violin, Barre Philips: bass, Paul Lytton: percussion, Lucas Niggli: percussion Intakt Records 2009-1 CHF 30.00
"After her riveting prelude-like solo, Schweizer applied her pan-stylistic approach to Guy’s challenging, playerempowering score. Though Guy retained the form’s traditional utility as a soloist’s showcase on “Radio Rondo,” he expanded the scope of the rondo’s back and forth to feature Schweizer in several subgroupings – a pummeling quintet passage with Guy, bassist Barre Phillips, and drummers Paul Lytton and Lucas Niggli – as well as encounters with the full force of the 17-piece contingent. In the later, Guy cued single-note stabs, flurried textures and a host of other events from parts of the orchestra, spiking the power of the notaded materials. For all of the piece’s intensity, Guy slipped beautiful passages – like the plaintive melody stated by tenor saxophonist Simon Picard – into the piece. A magisterial theme set up the piece’s final tutti blast.” |
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Black Lotos is far more than a duo. Not only consists Lucas Niggli’s acoustic layout of many parts, each of which could stand alone as an instrument: Xu Fengxia keeps switching between her two string instruments Guzheng and Sanxian and in parallel she uses her unbelievable voice. Thus the range of this music goes from soloist moments to the intimate dialogue up to almost orchestral abundance, from a short monologue in an interspace to a centipede ecstatic ride over an endlessly vast steppe. Chinese opera, Mongolian throat and overtone singing, Heavy Metal, traditional Chinese folk music, noise, contemporary Recorded at Loft Cologne, December 9, 2007 and mixed at Ton-Art Studio, February 27, 2008 by Christian Heck. Mastered February 10, 2009 at Studio Klangdach by Willy Strehler. Cover art: Gerda Steiner/Jörg Lenzlinger. Cover design: Jonas Schoder. Fotos: Alberto Placido. Liner notes: Steff Rohrbach. Intakt CD 164 EAN_7640120191641 |
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In the Composition " The Big Picture" by Fred Frith for the Arte Sax-Quartet from Basel, Katharina Weber ( piano) and Lucas Niggli ( drums) appear as Guest-Soloist. |
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Rolando Lamussene Djembe, Mbira, Voice, Percussion Intakt Records 2008 CHF 30.00
Beat Bag Bohemia is half African, half European. The ensemble consists exclusively of drummers – two Swiss and two African. At Beat Bag Bohemia each musician assumes a multitude of tasks. The parts are constantly reassigned. The members alternate in being accompanist, soloist, groove-master, noise- and melody-maker – and in each function the individual style of every musician is to shine through. The djembe player Rolando Lamussene is an intuitive musician. For this percussionist coming from an oral tradition the memory is his treasure: He is able to keep in mind huge dramaturgical processes and to memorize the most complex sequences in the shortest time possible – an ability brought to perfection during his time as a member of the National Song & Dance Company of Mozambique. Kesivan Naidoo, in contrast, is a flawless jazz drummer, only he plays jazz the South-African way – a danceable jive style. His timing is precise, his swing marvelously vibrant and his sound impressive. Peter Conradin Zumthor comes from a family of artists and his drumming is vigorous, colourful and open-minded. He takes special interest in the new varieties of rock drumming: new metal, grindcore, noise. Niggli, who is the composer, links it all together. He makes sure the |
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Nils Wogram - trombone, melodica, voice; Philip Schaufelberger - guitar; Lucas Niggli - drums, percussion; Beat Hofstetter - soprano- and tenorsax; Sascha Armbruster - alto-, soprano- and tenorsax; Andrea Formenti - tenor- and sopranosax; Beat Kappeler - bariton- and sopranosax. Intakt Records 2007 CHF 30.00
Performing with virtuosity, an intriguing variety of sounds, a blend of composed structures and improvisation, all of this happens by combining two outstanding jazz-formations: Lucas Niggli Zoom and the Basler saxophone quartet ARTE Quartett are going on a Crash Cruise. "To me, the best music -- the best art, period -- evokes or, rather, provokes ideas, not idioms. The goal is to transcend mere style -- style just being the clothes, not the man inside. This isn't easy to do, though; in fact, it's hard enough to be rare. That's why "Crash Cruise" is such a vital document. Lucas Niggli's ZOOM and the ARTE Quartett have created an artifact that is provocative and expressive, a constant flow of highly developed ideas that not only grab you but pull you in. The composition, structure and improvisation blend in a way that's seamless; there are complex written sections and radical improvisations, but the virtuosity of the players enables them to move organically from one to the other and back again, leaving the listener with the impression of something living and real. Throughout "Crash Cruise," the ideas, colors and energy teem, while the groove is loose. The record reflects an attitude that is serious and playful at the same time, like all the best art does. As a composer/improviser myself, I appreciate the amount of creative commitment that goes into writing, performing and recording music like this. The sound of it moves me. |
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Dominik Blum - Bösendorfer Imperial, Electronics Grob 2007 CHF 30.00
"Steamboat Switzerland show how avantgarde and hardcore CAN fit together. The said «hardest working band in the noisebiz» synthesize contemporary music, hardcore, 'prog' and noisy improv in awe inspiring live performances." |
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Dense and sensitive, precise and passionate!» is what the press said after the trio of Jacques Demierre, Barry Guy, and Lucas Niggli performed in front of a good 3’000 listeners on the large stage at the New Jazz Festival Moers in 2003. The public was enthralled. And all this for a piano trio that in no way performs as a «classical» jazz combo.Together, Jacques Demierre (Geneva), Barry Guy (Zurich and Ireland) and Lucas Niggli (Zurich) – musicians of different generations and origins – have immense technical abilities on their instruments and a common interest: the desire to perform passionately. The three musicians move in the realms not only of free improvisation, but also in the wide field of contemporary composed music. They audibly get their inspiration from both traditions. Open rhythms as well as a rich palette of tonal colors characterize the trio’s playing. |
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Dominik Blum - Hammond Organ Grob 2004 CHF 30.00
It’s been three years since Steamboat Switzerland created a sensation with the release of the CDs Budapest (GROB 315) and ac/dB [Hayden] (GROB 316). Since then the bad has played over 100 concerts and expanded it repertoire considerably. The Hammond organ post-progrock and post-death metal trio of the Swiss men Dominik Blum (organ), Marion Pliakas (electronic bass) and Lucas Niggli (drums) has included numerous compositions of other composers in its program, has worked out an acoustic set (with piano instead of organ, and an amplified acoustic guitar instead of the electronic bass), has played two-fisted rock sets, curated festivals, and has merged into larger ensembles. A new, long overdue Steamboat CD could have meant anything: a rock CD, an acoustic set, work with a larger ensemble. |
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»Appropriate to a collaboration with a new music ensemble, many of Niggli's pieces are suites. The lead-off track, for instance, is an anthemic anti-nationalist suite - that's perfectly designed for Minton, who is something of a specialist in Anti-Anthems, having sung wondrous versions of the anarchist anthem in the past. The drummer explains that the sweatiness of the project was both positive - sweat of a good performance ("I love intensity and energy, to create music under the biggest physical and mental presence") - and also more troubling ("writing this whole program was like having a disease, fever")« |
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Niggli makes rhythms out of sequences of notes, sets them up on his drums, uses his playing to conduct behind the horns, bass, and a guitar, and steers with finesse, with pressure and fury. The music thus created peels out of itself, runs through itself, constantly transforms itself, grows out of itself, lifts off, puts up bridges across the entire twentieth century.» Peter Weber |
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Everything swings and runs in high voltage in each other and results, nonetheless, in ONE meaningful organic entirety, that gives enough causefor enthusiasm.» Marcus Maida/Jazzthetik. |
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The first oevre by Lucas Niggli’s trio. An inspired studio production that breathes the energy of a live-band. The sound quality is fantastic! |
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Dominik Blum - Hammond Organ, Electronics, Piano GROB 2001 CHF 30.00
ac/dB [Hayden] is a clash of two compositions: "dB" is a work that the English composer Sam Hayden exclusively wrote for Steamboat Switzerland. On the CD, "dB" alternates with "ac," a collective composition of the band's members, Dominik Blum, Lucas Niggli and Marino Pliakas. Both pieces rub against, wash around and contrast each other as well as radically questioning each other. Thus, an uncommon tension-filled opus comes into being, that (as dumb as it may sound) is more than the sum of its parts. ac/dB [Hayden] demonstrates how powerful, explosive and, well yes, swinging new music can be. Or is it really the progressive music of the "now time" that simply blows away the entire postrock of the last few years and makes us forget it all? |
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The ultimate bonus in vinyl to go with "Budapest” and "ac/dB”! |
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The orchestral answer to "Singing Drums”. Pierre Favre’s unmistakable hand. |
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A very delicate and carefully crafted piece of work by the Genevan Anna Grichting about the parted cities Berlin, Belfast and Beirut. |
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Chambermusic at its most intense! Live-cut from a freely improvised concert. Again, with exceptional digital sound quality |
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100'000 Lucas Niggli-fans can’t be wrong: this is the CD many of them
call their favourite. The sound quality (Stephan Wittwer) as well as the
cover design are extraordinary and may have a lot to do with the CD’s
popularity. |
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This musical project-group in search of the roots of the people living in the Swiss mountain valley "Vals”. Music that is many-layered and far-reaching. Including a piece by Lucas Niggli. |
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A live-cut from Frankfurt which captures the finest moments of a very intense project. This large group takes you on a journey from rock to more subtle sounds and back to noise. |
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The first CD of this band whose work is constantly in progress. Recorded after their third tour. A mature production sparkling with poetry. |
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Lucas Niggli here figures as the percussion-sideman, in a light quartet with a very beautiful female voice. |
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A number of very disciplined group improvisations. Available here in a beautiful edition. However, the whole thing is better to be savoured live on stage. |
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This CD has caused quite a stir: a clear statement about the situation of the Swiss nation. |
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A wonderful sampler containing the crazy cut of a crazy evening. |
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The glorious final opus by Kieloor Entartet. Postmodernism in its purest form and extremely entertaining. Unfortunately out of print. |
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A world of percussion to sink into. |
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A live recording without cuts, from the Jazz festival, Schaffhausen (Switzerland). JAZZ! |
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A non-authorised release with three Kieloor tunes. A musical adventure, experienced together with Sainkho. |
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The more complex follow-up. This time it’s more poetic and dignified. |
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A wonderfully crazy debut. Be prepared to get a whole lotta weird music! |
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Fieldrecordings between 1998 and 2002. Release 2005. |
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BEYOND (Jürg Wickihalder, Barry Guy, Lucas Niggli)
Barry Guy The Blue Shroud Band
Barry Guy The Blue Shroud Band
Keïta - Brönnimann - Niggli
Large Ensemble, Hochschule Der Künste Bern / Michael Wertmüller / Lucas Niggli / Django Bates
Le Miroir Du Temps / Michel Godard
Lorenz Raab Quartet
SCHAERER NIGGLI Duo
SCHAERER NIGGLI DUO
BIONDINI-GODARD-NIGGLI
SHARP - GIBBS - NIGGLI
STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND
STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND EXTENDED
Paul Plimley - Barry Guy - Lucas Niggli
Lucas Niggli Peter Conradin Zumthor DRUM DUO
Lucas Niggli BIG ZOOM
Lucas Niggli Drum Quartett: BEAT BAG BOHEMIA
Biondini Godard Niggli
Lorenz Raab Quartet
Felix Profos FORCEMAJEUR
STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND
Lucas Niggli / Peter Conradin Zumthor DRUM DUO
Barry Guy & London Jazz Composers Orchestra
Barry Guy London Jazz Composers Orchestra feat. Irene Schweizer
Xu Fengxia - Lucas Niggli
Fred Frith & Arte Quartet
Lucas Niggli Drum Quartet
Lucas Niggli ZOOM MEETS ARTE QUARTETT
STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND
BIG ZOOM
Demierre Guy Niggli
STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND
Lucas Niggli Zoom Ensemble
Lucas Niggli BIG ZOOM
Lucas Niggli ZOOM
Lucas Niggli ZOOM![STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND ac/dB [hayden]](../../downloads/webimages/2001_steamboat_hayden.jpg)
STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND
STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND
STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND
Pierre Favre's European Chamber Ensemble
Lucas Niggli & Anna Grichting
Lucas Niggli & Sylvie Courvoisier
STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND
Roots Of Communication
Michel Wintsch
Pierre Favre's Singing Drums
Rahel Hadorn's Acoustic Stories
Scholl / Erismann / Niggli & Frith / Koch / Kowald
Roots Of Communication
The Field Recordings
Kieloor Entartet
Hofmann / Niggli
Michael Gassmann Quartett
Sainkho Namchylak
Kieloor Entartet
Kieloor Entartet
Susanne Abbuehl
Erika Stucky
Roots of Communication & Erika Stucky