About:
MOVE is a renowned contemporary improvisation ensemble with an international background and is composed of Harri Sjöström (Finland), John Edwards (UK), Dag Magnus Narvesen (Norway), Emilio Gordoa (Mexico) and Achim Kaufmann (Germany). The group hase been performing regularly since 2014. The quintet presents a very extensive sound palette with an enormous spectrum of dynamics and one communicates with a stylistically expanded musical language of explosive avant-garde music, spontaneous composition and free jazz echoes.
The music of M0VE 5tet is described by the listeners as:
"Unexpected, spontaneous, fresh, surprising, seductive. Instant composing at its best!"
The music of M0VE 5tet is described by the listeners as:
"Unexpected, spontaneous, fresh, surprising, seductive. Instant composing at its best!"
the members
m HARRI SJÖSTRÖM - soprano & sopranino saxophone
Harri Sjöström, born on 29 February 1952 in Turku, Finland, found his voice in music on the soprano and sopranino saxophone. His music and fine art studies in San Francisco in the 1970s led him directly to workshops by John Cage, Vinko Globokar, George Russell, Bill Dixon and to his saxophone teachers Leo Wright and Steve Lacy.
Ever since he worked extensively within the fields of contemporary improvised music and mixed media projects.
Back to Europe 1978 he started to work with Derek Bailey, Paul Lovens, John Russell, Paul Rutherford, Alexander von Schlippenbach a.o. Between 1990 and 2016 an extensive collaboration with the pianist and composer Cecil Taylor developed, including five live recordings with small ensembles and recordings with larger C.T. orchestras. Of particular note is the Cecil Taylor Quintet with C.T., Teppo Hauta-aho, Tristan Honsinger, Paul Lovens. Energetic and with an appetite for risk he founded and co-founded many ensembles with highly interesting instrumental line-ups including such as Quintet Moderne, European Composers Improvisors Orchestra (ECIO), Sestetto Internazionale, MOVE - quintet, Up And Out, City Of Pyramids, The Player Is, Motström a.o.
Cooperation with Sergio Armaroli, Matthias Bauer, Guy Bettini, Alison Blunt, Tony Buck, Lawrence Casserley, Andrea Centazzo, Michel Doneda, Emilio Gordoa, Frank Gratkowski, Teppo Hauta-aho, Steve Heather, Tristan Honsinger, DJ Illvibe, Wilbert de Joode, Achim Kaufmann, Kalle Kalima, Veli Kujala, Okkyung Lee, Hui-Chun Lin, Adam Pultz Melbye, Francesco Miccolis, Luca Pissavini, Gianni Mimmo, Jeffrey Morgan, Libero Mureddu, Dag Magnus Narvesen, Evan Parker, Guilherme Rodrigues, Steffen Roth, Ignaz Schick, Jean - Michel Van Schouwburg, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Philipp Wachsmann, Els Wandeveyer, Ute Wassermann a.m.o.
www.harrisjostrom.com
photo: Mathias Bothor
Harri Sjöström, born on 29 February 1952 in Turku, Finland, found his voice in music on the soprano and sopranino saxophone. His music and fine art studies in San Francisco in the 1970s led him directly to workshops by John Cage, Vinko Globokar, George Russell, Bill Dixon and to his saxophone teachers Leo Wright and Steve Lacy.
Ever since he worked extensively within the fields of contemporary improvised music and mixed media projects.
Back to Europe 1978 he started to work with Derek Bailey, Paul Lovens, John Russell, Paul Rutherford, Alexander von Schlippenbach a.o. Between 1990 and 2016 an extensive collaboration with the pianist and composer Cecil Taylor developed, including five live recordings with small ensembles and recordings with larger C.T. orchestras. Of particular note is the Cecil Taylor Quintet with C.T., Teppo Hauta-aho, Tristan Honsinger, Paul Lovens. Energetic and with an appetite for risk he founded and co-founded many ensembles with highly interesting instrumental line-ups including such as Quintet Moderne, European Composers Improvisors Orchestra (ECIO), Sestetto Internazionale, MOVE - quintet, Up And Out, City Of Pyramids, The Player Is, Motström a.o.
Cooperation with Sergio Armaroli, Matthias Bauer, Guy Bettini, Alison Blunt, Tony Buck, Lawrence Casserley, Andrea Centazzo, Michel Doneda, Emilio Gordoa, Frank Gratkowski, Teppo Hauta-aho, Steve Heather, Tristan Honsinger, DJ Illvibe, Wilbert de Joode, Achim Kaufmann, Kalle Kalima, Veli Kujala, Okkyung Lee, Hui-Chun Lin, Adam Pultz Melbye, Francesco Miccolis, Luca Pissavini, Gianni Mimmo, Jeffrey Morgan, Libero Mureddu, Dag Magnus Narvesen, Evan Parker, Guilherme Rodrigues, Steffen Roth, Ignaz Schick, Jean - Michel Van Schouwburg, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Philipp Wachsmann, Els Wandeveyer, Ute Wassermann a.m.o.
www.harrisjostrom.com
photo: Mathias Bothor
JOHN EDWARDS - double bass.
John Edwards is a true virtuoso whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Louis Moholo, Peter Brötzmann, Mulatu Astatke and countless others.
He composed and performed music theatre with the bass and cello duo The Great Explorers, street-busked a lot and appeared at many more festivals in Germany, Estonia, France, Italy, Czech, etc.
Since 1995 John Edwards has become a "mainstay" of the London scene, playing with just about everybody, an activity that has seen him clocking up between 150 and 200 gigs a year. He has become a frequent player on the European festival scene, appearing at Taktlos, Ulrichsburg, Nickelsdorf, Budapest, New Zealand and in the USA a.o. He continues to work on solo performances.
"I think John Edwards is absolutely remarkable: there’s never been anything like him before, anywhere in jazz." - Richard Williams, The Blue Moment
www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/medwards.html
John Edwards is a true virtuoso whose staggering range of techniques and boundless musical imagination have redefined the possibility of the double bass and dramatically expanded its role, whether playing solo or with others. Perpetually in demand, he has played with Evan Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Sunny Murray, Derek Bailey, Joe McPhee, Lol Coxhill, Louis Moholo, Peter Brötzmann, Mulatu Astatke and countless others.
He composed and performed music theatre with the bass and cello duo The Great Explorers, street-busked a lot and appeared at many more festivals in Germany, Estonia, France, Italy, Czech, etc.
Since 1995 John Edwards has become a "mainstay" of the London scene, playing with just about everybody, an activity that has seen him clocking up between 150 and 200 gigs a year. He has become a frequent player on the European festival scene, appearing at Taktlos, Ulrichsburg, Nickelsdorf, Budapest, New Zealand and in the USA a.o. He continues to work on solo performances.
"I think John Edwards is absolutely remarkable: there’s never been anything like him before, anywhere in jazz." - Richard Williams, The Blue Moment
www.efi.group.shef.ac.uk/musician/medwards.html
DAG MAGNUS NARVESEN - drums
born in 1983, is a drummer, percussionist and composer who is mainly working in the field of improvised and contemporary music. Emerging from the diverse and renowned jazz scene of Norway, leading bands like Sasquatch, co-leading Kitchen Orchestra and as a member of Gunhild Seim's Time Jungle, his current musical endeavors feature his highly acclaimed octet DAMANA, Schlippenbach/Narvesen Duo, Dag Magnus Narvesen kvintett, Harri Sjöström's MOVE quintet and Up and Out, Didrik Ingvaldsen Orchestra and Aki Takase's Japanic, to name a few. In working with these and other bands, especially some tied to the Berlin scene, he has acquired a reputation as a highly skilled drummer and a trusted musical collaborator
www.dagmagnus.com
photo: Cristina Marx /Photomusix
EMILIO GORDOA RODRIGUEZ - vibraphone
Mexican composer, sound artist, percussionist /vibraphonist based in Berlin since 2012.
He’s involved in numerous projects including his work as a soloist and in collaboration with theater, dance, performance and other interdisciplinary frameworks. Emilio is specially focus in experimental music, sound art, noise, free jazz, improvisation and contemporary music. He is redefining the vibraphone as a source, treating it with preparations and extended techniques and is a busy composer as well, writing graphic scores for a variety of ensembles, large and small, for theater, documentary films and audiovisual. In recent years his work has also been presented in the form of sound installations and in 2016 founded the platform WildSonico.
Gordoa has collaborated with several artist from around the world such as John Russell, Ingrid Schomliner, Tristan Honsinger, Nate Wooley, John Edwards, Chikako Kaido, Ken Vandermark, German Bringas, John Butcher, Misha Marks, Evan Parker, Axel Dörner, Yuko Kaseki, Tobias Delius, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Ignaz Schick, Harri Sjöström, Lena Czerniawska, Jaap Blonk, Burkhard Beins and Ute Wassermann. www.emiliogordoa.tumblr.com
photo: Cristina Marx /Photomusix
Mexican composer, sound artist, percussionist /vibraphonist based in Berlin since 2012.
He’s involved in numerous projects including his work as a soloist and in collaboration with theater, dance, performance and other interdisciplinary frameworks. Emilio is specially focus in experimental music, sound art, noise, free jazz, improvisation and contemporary music. He is redefining the vibraphone as a source, treating it with preparations and extended techniques and is a busy composer as well, writing graphic scores for a variety of ensembles, large and small, for theater, documentary films and audiovisual. In recent years his work has also been presented in the form of sound installations and in 2016 founded the platform WildSonico.
Gordoa has collaborated with several artist from around the world such as John Russell, Ingrid Schomliner, Tristan Honsinger, Nate Wooley, John Edwards, Chikako Kaido, Ken Vandermark, German Bringas, John Butcher, Misha Marks, Evan Parker, Axel Dörner, Yuko Kaseki, Tobias Delius, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Ignaz Schick, Harri Sjöström, Lena Czerniawska, Jaap Blonk, Burkhard Beins and Ute Wassermann. www.emiliogordoa.tumblr.com
photo: Cristina Marx /Photomusix
ACHIM KAUFMANN - piano
Achim Kaufmann is a pianist and composer currently based in Berlin who uses mixed techniques to create a fluctuating world of sounds and gestures. He studied music at the Conservatory in Cologne and also took classes with creative masters such as Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, and Steve Lacy. He has lived in Cologne, Paris, and particularly in Amsterdam where he was based from 1996 to 2009, becoming part of the city’s internationally renowned improvised music scene.
In 1998, he founded a quartet with reedist Michael Moore and percussionist John Hollenbeck. Since 2002, he has been touring internationally with Kaufmann/Gratkowski/de Joode, an improvising trio which has released five CDs to much critical acclaim. Other working groups include grünen with Robert Landfermann and Christian Lillinger, SKEIN as well as duos with Michael Moore and percussionist Yorgos Dimitriadis.
He and the poet and visual artist GDR Guenther have collaborated on a number of projects and founded the publishing platform for music and poetry, Trokaan. In their most recent Trokaan Project, they brought together an illustrious group of improvisors (Liz Allbee, Frank Gratkowski, Kazu Uchihashi, Richard Barrett, Wilbert de Joode, Gerry Hemingway) who have integrated aspects of chamber music, poetry, improvisational dialogue, electro-acoustic textures, full-blown free ensemble playing, and the occasional groove on their cd “13 Asperities” released in 2020.
Kaufmann has also performed and/or recorded with Han Bennink, George Lewis, Mark Dresser, Paul Lovens, Tony Buck, Fay Victor, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Shelley Hirsch, Paul Rutherford, Steve Swallow, Jim Black, Thomas Lehn, Okkyung Lee, Axel Dörner, and many others.
He was awarded the German SWR Jazz Award in 2001, and the prestigious Albert Mangelsdorff award in 2015.
www.achimkaufmann.co
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