Squidco: Kunz, Christopher / Florian Fischer: Die Unwucht, Disperation And Focus First Visit

Kunz, Christopher / Florian Fischer

Die Unwucht, Disperation And Focus First Visit

(ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd

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Kunz, Christopher / Florian Fischer: Die Unwucht, Disperation And Focus First Visit (ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd)

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Personnel:

Christopher Kunz-soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone

Florian Fischer-drums

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UPC: 752156711322

Label: ezz-thetics by Hat Hut Records Ltd
Catalog ID: ezz-thetics 113
Squidco Product Code: 35980

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: Switzerland
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded in Langenzenn, Germany, on May 27th and 28th, 2023, by Christopher Kunz and Florian Fischer .

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"As poets from Shakespeare to Heine have recognized, "the forest" is not just about grandeur and most expansive of gestures; it is also about intimacy and there is a remarkable intimacy to Kunz's and Fischer's music. The forest is both inhuman, wild, and, because it houses us and to a degree depends on us, profoundly humane. You'll find these qualities here as well. Focus, breathe and listen."-Brian Morton

Artist Biographies

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"Christopher Kunz (*1992, Karlsruhe) studied jazz saxophone at the Nuremberg University of Music with Prof. Steffen Schorn, Prof. Klaus Graf, Hubert Winter, and Stefan Karl Schmid. In 2015 he founded with Isabel Rößler (b) and Maximilian Breu (dr) the trio Flut, which won the Bruno Rother Competition 2016, toured Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and the Czech Republic, and was awarded the Stroboskop Prize of the Nuremberg radio station Radio Z in 2018. The trio Giger with Florian Müller (git) and Jan F. Brill (dr) won the Bruno Rother Competition in 2017.

With the Nuremberg ensemble fraktale Christopher Kunz is the winner of the Hugo Competition and since October 2017 he has been studying with Prof. Johannes Enders and Prof. Michael Wollny in the master's programme at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. He was awarded the Deutschlandstipendium, is a winner of the D-Bü Competition of students of German music academies in 2018 with the Leipzig ensemble Soundtravelers and the Young Talent Jazz Prize of the city of Leipzig in 2020 with Perplexities on Mars."

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"Florian Fischer (*1993, Fürth) studied jazz drums with Prof. Hans Günter Brodmann, Matthias Rosenbauer, and Johannes Nied at the Nuremberg University of Music and since 2019 has been studying at the Berlin University of the Arts with Prof. Heinrich Köbberling.

He has played as a sideman and bandleader in different formations in Germany and abroad, has held workshop for several years and is regularly hired by German theatres. His music spans traditional jazz, theatre music, performance and free jazz. In 2017 he was awarded the Deutschlandstipendium and the Bruno Rother Jazz Prize. He has played concerts with Roger Hanschel, Steffen Schorn, Jürgen Neudert, Bernhard Pichl, Klaus Graf, and Thilo Wolf, among others. He also studied with Ted Poor, Knut Alefjaer, Sullivan Fortner, Oli Steidle, Jean Paul Höchstädter, and Billy Hart."

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Track Listing:

1. The Sowing Of Pressluftschwammerl 6:46

2. Dispersion And Focus 3:41

3. Fleisch Of Doom 2:57

4. Ant Icks 3:11

5. Engage And Hold 4:37

6. Ponzipump 6:06

7. Second Intake 4:03

8. Processionary Moth 9:50

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