"Luca Sisera (b. 27/08/1975, Chur)

For a good 15 years, Luca Sisera has been a sought-after bassist in the Swiss jazz and improvisation scene. Musically, he likes to operate in the charged environment between composition and improvisation. He is frequently seen on stage at various festivals and jazz clubs across Europe in well over 100 concerts each year, whereby some tours and concerts have already taken him to Egypt, China and America. To date, he has been involved in over 30 audio releases, often produced in cooperation with Swiss Radio SRF 2. Most recently, Luca Sisera has also started working as a composer for his own quintet "ROOFER". As interdisciplinary projects have always interested him, Luca Sisera has also worked with authors, cabaret artists, dancers and visual artists, among others, as well as on theatre and film productions.

Collaborations:

Plays and played with: Michael Jaeger, Yves Theiler, Silvio Cadotsch, Michi Stulz, VincentMembrez, Norbert Pfammatter, Urs Leimgruber, Sheldon Suter, Dario Sisera, Franz Hellmüller, Tony Renold, Isa Wiss, Carles Peris, Axel Dörner, Tommy Meier, IrèneSchweizer, Co Streiff, Peter Landis, Greg Osby, Chris Jaeger Brown, Valentin Kessler,Manuel Mengis, Tobi Schramm, Lisette Spinnler, Alex Hendriksen, Nadja Stoller, Oli Kuster,Marco von Orelli, Russ Johnson, Philipp Schaufelberger, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Reto Senn,Dave Gisler, Marc Halbheer, Christoph Irniger, Stefan Rusconi, Christoph Baumann, Valeria Zangger, Christoph Gallio, Alex Huber, Flurin Caviezel, Patricia Draeger, Albin Brun,Georges Kazazian, Bahur Ghazi, Sheila Runa, Jacinta Candinas, Andri Perl, Lukas Mantel, Guy Bettini, Fabio Martini, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Gerry Hemingway and many more"

"Are you playing yourself or are you playing the music? drummer Norbert Pfammatter likes to ask himself and others now and then. A question that not only postpones all other questions regarding people and art, but at the same time reveals the honesty of a musician who sees music as a guide to the pathless land.

"My most important influences are my teachers Billy Brooks, Pierre Favre, the great musicians of the jazz tradition, John Cage, all the musicians I was able to play with, the sounds that surround me, the great wise men of the East and the silence that they recommend to us."

Norbert Pfammatter was born on September 12, 1959 in the middle of the Swiss mountains, in Visp. He spent his youth in Brig, preferably outdoors in the beautiful and formative nature. Fascinated by Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Yes, Genesis and Frank Zappa, he began playing drums at the age of 13 and increasingly moved his free time to the cellars of the small Valais town.

After six years of self-taught research into his instrument, the young drummer decided in 1978 to leave the conducive peace and yet inhibiting isolation of the small town. He enrolled as a student at the Swiss Jazz School in Bern and, after a year and a half of lessons with Bob Cunningham and Heinz Lieb, finally met the great drummer Billy Brooks, whose presence in Bern can safely be described as a happy coincidence.

Inspired by the suddenly diverse stimuli and the inspiring encounter with the music of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane, Norbert Pfammatter switched to the Swiss Jazz School vocational school after graduating from high school in 1980.

The first important musical connections develop, such as with the Hungarian bassist Tibor Elekes, the trumpeter Umberto Arlati, the trombonist Robert Morgenthaler, the saxophonist Andy Scherrer and the North German pianist Jochen Bohnes.

When Norbert Pfammatter completed his studies at the SJS with a diploma in 1985, he was hired there as a teacher in the same year. After his first recordings, including with the formation around the saxophonist Beat Wenger, he was employed as a drum set teacher at the Biel Conservatory in 1989, the intensive and ongoing collaboration with the saxophonist Donat Fisch, and the influential musical encounter with the American cellist Muneer B. Fenell and his "Rhythm String Band", as well as the Detroit drummer Doug Hammond and the adventurous collaboration with bassist Bänz Oester that continues to this day.

Starting with Turkish, Bulgarian, Romanian and Yiddish folk music and mostly odd meters, Norbert Pfammatter has been contributing his playing to the "Schönhaus Express" ensemble of the saxophonist and composer Sascha Schönhaus since 1993 and on three recordings.

In 1994, Norbert Pfammatter became a lecturer in drums at the Lucerne University of Music.

In the selected overview of the following years, the trio G.A.S., founded in 1996, is said to be with the pianist Hans Feigenwinter and the bassist Bänz Oester, which released the much praised recording of the "Great American Songs" three years later. Likewise the ongoing collaboration with the composer and clarinetist Don Li, which resulted in the CD "Trigon" in 2000. Equally important is the drum ensemble founded in 2001 by drummer Pierre Favre, as well as the quartet around singer Elina Duni, with the highly praised debut CD "Baresha" in 2008, and then especially with the two productions "Matanë Malit" and "Dallëndyshe". for ECM Records.

The drum improvisation duo Traktor met a painful end with the unique drummer and friend Fabian Kuratli, due to his illness and shockingly early death in 2008.

Norbert Pfammatter plays concerts in Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the USA and also considers himself lucky to have worked with many exponents of the national scene, as well as with many big and small stars of the international scene."