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Dietrich Eichmann & Ramón López
the
first concert
at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, October 19, 2004
1. doutes
et divisions agitent les arts / 2. les moutardes en colères |
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Dietrich
Eichmann – piano
Ramón López – drums, percussion
camera : Cédric Labourdette
total
duration: 46:25
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Dietrich Eichmann is one of the most versatile
personalities in contemporary avant-garde music. His compositions
have been performed on international festivals by renowned ensembles,
as a pianist and improviser he is actively involved in many international
collaborations, and he has been organizing the oaksmus studio
concert series in Berlin and the attached CD label for several
years.
His roots in Jazz and improvised music combined with his radical aesthetic approach
to musical composition result in the unmistakable language of an unusual spirit.
He believes that all creative artistic effort springs from the socio-political
context and in so far necessarily, and always, is a reflexion of contemporary
political problems.
Ramón López amazes
through his relentless rhythmical foundation, his most refined
sense of colours and dynamics, but perhaps most through this
rare capacity to acclimatize to any given context without ever
sacrificing his own identity, always in the service of the
music, above all attentive to melody and its inflections, to
the direct association of gesture and emotion. A great stylist
is born. Stéphane
Ollivier. Les Inrockuptibles
An inventive rhythmicist, whose tabla practice leads
to combinations rarely employed by drummers, Ramón López is one of those who
make the drums sing melodies. In this sense he stands in the tradition of
the great stylists in Jazz. Sylvain
Siclier. Le Monde
‘Ferryman’ is the term which best describes Ramón
López. ‘Ferryman’ between borders, beyond the mirror,
where everything is allowed. Ramón López, alchemist and poet
at the same time, takes the listener not only on a geographical and inter-cultural
journey, but also through all the drummer may evoke in ourselves.
Of the scale of ritual. Rhythm as vital essence, rhythm as respiration.
Rhythms braught to life through the way how sculptor and colourist Ramón
López arranges silence and colour with rare talent. Xavier
Matthyssens. Jazz Magazine
The collaboration
between Ramón López and Dietrich
Eichmann began in summer 2004 during Dietrich’s séjour
at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Their very
first duo concert was presented here and captured on film by
Cédric Labourdette.
Their approach to improvisation is a clear vision of soundscapes
and musical structures to explore material Dietrich will use
in a new composition for ensemble with an improvising soloist
: Ramón |
