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SORBD (Steyer / Dyberg / Okuda / Robler / Borges): Wild Peacock In Transit (Relative Pitch)

Each of the 5 members of this band bring a composition to this 2022 live recording at Kuhlspot Social Club in Berlin, along with four collective improvisations, in the impressive debut of the acronym-named band SORBD, signifying Edith Steyer on Bb clarinet, Mia Dyberg on alto saxophone, Rieko Okuda on piano, Isabel Rossler on bass, and Sofia Borges on drums & percussion.
 

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Edith Steyer-Bb clarinet

Mia Dyberg-alto saxophone

Rieko Okuda-piano

Isabel Rossler-bass

Sofia Borges-drums, percussion


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UPC: 5904224873059

Label: Relative Pitch
Catalog ID: RPR1189
Squidco Product Code: 35218

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold
Recorded at Kuhlspot Social Club, in Berlin, Germany, on November 24th and 25th, 2022, by Alexis Baskind.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"SORBD brings together 5 musicians from the European improvised music and free jazz scene who have distinguished themselves as strong artistic personalities. The five instrumentalists and composers are characterized by their own sound language and the development of contemporary concepts of ensemble playing. The improvisation in various constellations, as well as conceptual composition sketches, lead to a high degree of interactive playfulness, surprising moments of noise and sensual sound images."-Relative Pitch



"Debut recording by this quintet. Five musicians: Edith Steyer (Bb clarinet), Mia Dyberg (alto saxophone), Rieko Okuda (piano), Isabel Rößler (bass) and Sofia Borges (drums, percussion). French double bass player Marion Ruault fills in for Isabel when playing live. It might be a coincidence that she shares the same letter of her last name; the band name consists of each first letter of their last name. The musicians come from Germany, Denmark, Japan and Portugal. Nine pieces, five penned by each member and the rest are group improvisations. The latter are three of the shortest pieces, each less than a minute long and with a fierce energy. The other group impro is the second piece on the release: "Good Morning". It's a fun release with lots of ideas, combinations and textures. Sometimes all wild as in the shorter pieces, and often atmospheric and moody. And all the time, there's an exciting group dynamic, not in terms of dynamics (loudness) but in the interplay. Each musician contributes a part that makes the whole seem bigger. In other words, it all fits. There's room for solos, but not in the sense of looking at me being all technical; no, it fits the piece's mood. I listened to this a lot, and each time, there were different details to discover. Well done!"-Vital Weekly


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Artist Biographies

"Edith Steyer was born in 1968 in Munich. After studying anthropology, she decided to become a saxophone and clarinet player and finished her degree at the Bruckner-Konservatorium in Linz, Austria. Since then she has been working professionally as a jazz musician and in the field of improvised music. She recieved support and grants for CD productions with various ensembles from the GEDOK, the Berliner Senat (SenBildJugWiss) and as a member of "The Composers Orchestra Berlin" from the Initiative für Neue Musik. She worked at the Staatstheater Cottbus, leading a saxophone quartet. She has been on tour in many places throughout europe and in the US and played with outstanding musicians such as Michael Griener, Jan Roder, Andreas Willers, James Falzone, John Niekrasz, Adam Pultz-Melbye, Kathrin Lemke, Johannes Schleiermacher, Yorgos Dimitriadis, Joel Grip, Tobias Delius, Clayton Thomas, Susanna Hood, Marialuisa Capurso, Jean-Marc Foussat, Luiz Rocha etc."

-Edith Steyer Website (http://www.edith-steyer.de/projekte/affare-bela-b/)
10/11/2024

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"Mia Dyberg (b, 1986) is a Danish saxophonist, improviser and composer currently residing in Berlin, Germany, where she works as a freelance musician. Performing with improv-musicians such as Clayton Thomas, Dag Magnus Narvesen, Casey Moir and Tobias Delius.

Her ability to combine sound experiments with melancholy in a unique melodic expression, makes her one of the new exciting voices on the European jazz scene. She is active project leader & co-founder of the international improvisers collective The Community.

Mia is a part of the Copenhagen jazz/improv. scene and holds a Master Diploma in Music '2015 from the Conservatory of Copenhagen. She grew up in the Swedish archipelago and her both wild and impressionistic music is often affected by grand nature. But there is also a pulse of the city.

The last couple of years she has made roots on the international scene as a leader of projects as: Mia Dyberg Trio, Dyberg 4 Ra, Kovacs & Dyberg, Christian Balvig/Mia Dyberg feat. Clayton Thomas[AU] in Germany, Sweden, Poland, and Egypt. She also participates in different ad hoc projects for example in New York, Berlin and Stockholm with musicians as Herb Robertson[US], Niklas Barnö [SE] Oscar Noriega[US] og Michael Evans[US].

Mia Dyberg is co-founder and active project leader in the international improvisers collective The Community, which is an organisation, creating and expanding relations between improvising musicians worldwide - by producing events with interaction as the driving force."

-Mia Dyberg Website (http://www.miadyberg.com/about/)
10/11/2024

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Rieko Okuda is a pianist and a composer from Japan. She began to play Classical music at the age of 3. She also studied Music Therapy at Doshisha Women College. Music Therapy led her into Contemporary music and Improvised music. After she graduated from the college, she moved to USA to study Jazz music. She fell right into the Jazz scene in USA, performing with some of the great American Jazz musicians (Bob Mintzer, Jon Faddis, John Fedchock etc) at several jazz festivals such as North Texas Jazz Festival, Nortredam Jazz Festival to name a few. A couple of years later, she got interested in Free Jazz and Improvised music while she was in Phliladelphia. She performed with the great improvisers includes Marshall Allen (from San Ra Orchestra), Elliott Levine (recorded with Cecil Taylor), and Calvin Weston (recorded with Ornette Coleman). Her interests in Improvised music led her to move to Berlin. She performs with various musicians in Berlin ex. Tobias Delius, Axel Dörner, Els Vendaweyer, Linda Frederickson, ect. Also, she collaborates with contemporary dancers such as Yuko Kaseki, Akemi Nagao, and Annapaola Leso (from Sasha Waltz.) She performs at several experimental festivals: A'Larme Festival, JOE Festival Essen, Brda Contemporary Music Festival, XChange Festival, Experymental Festival, Flux Festival, and Soundance Festival to name a few.

In 2017 and 2018, she got the residency in Elektronik Music Studio (EMS) in Stockholm, Sweden. This residency experiences inspired her to Electro-Acoustic field, and she started to invite the electronics to her piano solo pieces. Her first Electro-Acoustic solo album "Paranorm" was released from Japanese record lable, Athor Harmonics, on Feburary 2018. "Paranorm" was performed at Koncertkirken Blagards Plads (DK), Ausland, FLUX Festival (DE), and Vardklockans Församling (SE).

In 2020, she has gotten the residency in Visby International Centere for Composers (VICC) to extend her experience, and find more possibilities to create various sounds and composition techniques.

-Rieko Okuda Website (http://www.riekookuda.com/biography.html)
10/11/2024

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"Isabel Rößler is a jazz bassist and improviser. After studying music in Nuremberg and Tallinn, she moved to Berlin in 2019, where she is active in the city's fluid improvisation scene. In addition to numerous collaborations with local and international artists, she has toured through Germany and Eastern Europe with her trio "Flut". Beyond purely musical creation, she collaborated with artists from the fields of poetry/language, object theater, dance/performance, fine art and stage visuals, among others. Other current projects in which she is involved include: OBSiDiAN, Rupp/Rößler/Hall, Trespassing Rooms, SORBD, Brad Henkel Quartet, Red Color Trio The Omniversal Earkestra."

-Isabel Rossler Website (https://isabelroessler.com/bio-presskit/)
10/14/2024

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"Sofia Borges is a versatile musician active as a composer, performer, percussionist and sound designer. She focuses on interdisciplinary work and blending a variety of genres, traditions, materials and technologies. Her compositions cover a wide spectrum ranging from chamber, orchestra and vocal music up to theatre, dance and multimedia performances and installations. Sofia has participated in numerous international festivals all over Europe, U.S.A, Brazil, Macao, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand. She was selected to take part in the TENSO Young Composers Workshop 2015 (Mechelen), 2016 (Marseille) and 2017 (Nova Gorica). When performing as a composer-performer, she not only uses self-programmed electronics but also instruments she has developed herself. Sofia is also a dedicated educator, having among other projects headed the composition lab with school children at Klangradar Berlin since 2015. Sofia Borges began studying Percussion and Drums in Lisbon both at the Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa and the Luís Villas-Boas Jazz School. Later she devoted herself to composition, studying at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa. In 2012 she completed her MA in Multimedia Composition at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater.

Sofia Borges lives in Berlin, Germany."

-Sofia Borges Website (https://sofiaborges.com/about/)
10/11/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Liquid Tiles 10:03

2. Good Morning 7:09

3. Ende Gelande I 0:45

4. Love Story Between Fast And Slow Motion 2:56

5. Pfaueninsel - Peacock Island 4:22

6. Ende Gelande II 0:36

7. Graphic Ballad 5:07

8. Pen - Pong 8:54

9. Ende Gelande III 0:47

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