ORIENTAL SPACE | CONCERTS IN HOLLAND AND AUSTRIA
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FRANZ HAUTZINGER’S ORIENTAL SPACE
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Franz Hautzinger (Austria) | trumpet
Helge Hinteregger (Austria) | sampler
Mazen Kerbaj (Lebanon) | trumpet
Sharif Sehnaoui (Lebanon) | electric guitar
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TUESDAY, JULY 10TH | 20.30
at STEIM, Utrechtsedwarsstraat 134, Amsterdam
more info: www.steim.nl
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FRIDAY, JULY 13TH | 19.00
during the KONFRONTATIONEN festival 2007
JAZZGALERIE, Nickelsdorf – Austria
more info: www.konfrontationen.at
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“Oriental Space” was formed in late 2003 by Austrian trumpet player
Franz
Hautzinger following his two visits to Lebanon, the first to play
traditional quartertone trumpet with Palestinian folk singer Marwan
Abado,
and the second to work and perform with Mazen Kerbaj in the frame of the
“Irtijal” festival for experimental and improvised music. The quartet
came
as an enhancement of his ongoing duo work with Mazen Kerbaj, both
bringing
in their most regular partners: Helge Hinteregger and Sharif Sehnaoui.
Hautzinger and Hinteregger have both been central figures of the
prolific
Viennese contemporary and improvised music scene, taking part in the
extreme
minimalist tendency of the 90s as well as electronic music. Recently
their
style has diversified and they may take part in various projects
ranging a
wide variety of styles both with their own groups: Regenorchester,
Zeitkratzer, Conforts of Madness… or in collaboration with artists
such as
Radu Malfatti, Otomo Yoshihide, Phil Niblock, John Tilbury, Lou Reed,
Luc Ex
or Roger Turner to name but a few.
Kerbaj and Sehnaoui have been two of the main boosts for the burgeonin
Lebanese improvised music scene that they contributed to launch in
the year
2000, both by creating the “Irtijal” festival and “Al Maslakh” label.
Their
style has primarily focused on dense textural improvisation based on an
extreme hijacking of their respective instrument by means of extended
and
prepared techniques. They have widely performed around the globe both
in duo
and with their main groups: “A” Trio, Moukhtabar Ensemble, Rouba3i…
or in
collaboration with musicians such as Michael Zerang, Stphane Rives,
L Quan
Ninh, Axel Drner or David Stackens among many others.
Franz Hautzinger’s “Oriental Space” is the opening of an undetermined
subjective space that does not correspond or refer to any specific
style of
music but rather to Hautzinger’s unique inner experience of the
orient that
he tries to share with both his partners and the audience.
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