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Roelofs - Rope Dance: Light-Footed Music for All and None | BIS BIS2453

Roelofs - Rope Dance: Light-Footed Music for All and None

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BIS2453

Barcode: 7318599924533

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Jazz

Release Date: 28th May 2021

Contents

Artists

Bram van Sambeek (bassoon)
Joris Roelofs (bass clarinet, clarinet)
Bram de Looze (piano)
Clemens van der Feen (double bass)
Martijn Vink (drums)

Works

Roelofs, Joris

Rope Dance: Light-Footed Music for All and None

Artists

Bram van Sambeek (bassoon)
Joris Roelofs (bass clarinet, clarinet)
Bram de Looze (piano)
Clemens van der Feen (double bass)
Martijn Vink (drums)

About

The award-winning Dutch composer and bass clarinet player Joris Roelofs is also currently working on a PhD dissertation on Friedrich Nietzsche, improvisation and the notion of freedom. On the album Rope Dance he is able to combine all of this, in a suite of twelve pieces inspired by Nietzsche – ‘by far the most musical of philosophers’ according to Roelofs. It is especially the parable of the tightrope walker in the opening section of ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None’ that has provided him with inspiration for his own ‘Light-Footed Music for All and None’.

It is not surprising that Nietzsche’s thoughts about free spirits, liberated from conventional constraints and belief systems, resonate particularly well with musicians working with improvisation and across genres. Roelofs has therefore been able to gather a group of highly versatile colleagues from the Benelux jazz scene to perform his music: pianist Bramde Looze, bass player Clemens van der Feen and Martijn Vink on drums. The album also confirms the multi-faceted talents of bassoonist Bram van Sambeek, following previous recordings on BIS of classical, pre-Romantic and contemporary concertos, as well as hard rock covers with the group ORBI (the Oscillating Revenge of the Background Instruments).

Tracklisting:
1. Beware the Buffoon!
2. Sweet Superman
3. Rope Dancer
4. Are Your Feet Light Enough?
5. If You Gaze Long into an Abyss…
6. Off Balance
7. Eternal Recurrence
8. The Three Metamorphoses
9. …The Abyss Will Gaze Back into You
10. The Master Can’t Dance
11. The Convalescent
12. The Laughing Child

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