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'He wails in on alto sax, like a banshee trying to charm a cobra.' Dan McClenaghan at allaboutjazz.com about Sha.
"R'n'B', Minimalfunk, Ambient", is Sha’s (*1983) answer to the question about influences on his music. Isa Wiss (vocals), Mik Keusen (piano), Thomas Tavano (bass) und Julian Sartorius (drums) have been working with him in his band Banryu since 2004 and with 'Chessboxing Volume One' are now presenting their first album. Sha conveys the meaning of the Japanese band name 'Banryu' as follows: "Banryu, the dragon ready for jumping, lets everything come up and roll by, while not loosing its tension and posture at any moment and ready to strike anytime..." All the pieces of music were composed by Sha during the past few years, the lyrics of the first song being made up by Isa Wiss. They are titled with numbers only, and their poetic and energetic message unfolds with their sound, form and groove. During the past years, Sha has gained a considerable amount of international experience playing bass and contrabass clarinets, especially with Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin but also with Mik Keusen’s Blau. With his own band, he shows additional facets to his art of making music and plays more frequently alto sax and the Asian khen in addition to the bass clarinets. With the description ’Volume One’, Sha announces, with that ironic seriousness typical of him, that musical chessboxing could become a future discipline.
Text: Kim Longin, Ronin Rhythm Records
Order the CD at the webshop: http://www.roninrhythmrecords.com/shop/
In the USA 'chessboxing volume one' is available via Wayside Music: http://www.waysidemusic.com/
German distributor for 'chessboxing volume one': All My Music http://www.amm.de/
Gear
Alto Sax Horn: Conn Ladyface 6M Mouthpiece: Pomarico Reeds: Vandoren Java Bass Clarinet Horn: LeBlanc Mouthpiece: Selmer Reeds: Vandoren Java Contrabass Clarinet Horn: Leblanc Mouthpiece: LeBlanc Reeds: Vandoren
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Sha: Monbijou
by Mike Jacobs
Aside from an existing appreciation of the saxophonist's creativity, it would be a mistake to approach Sha's Monbijou with any preconceptions. While this is a notion that has applied to his main group, Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, the tack Sha takes on this album is well removed from even that. Considering the integrated groupthink which characterizes nearly all of his work in (and outside of) Ronin, part of that remove is to be expected-- after all, this is a ...
Continue ReadingSha's Feckel: Greatest Hits
by John Kelman
With Stoa (ECM, 2006), the world at large was introduced to Nik Bärtsch and his hypnotic, booty-shaking Zen Funk. But the Swiss pianist's rapid ascendance, thanks to the international reach and reputation of ECM Records, was only the tip of the iceberg. Not only had Bärtsch released six previous albums since 2001, on his own Ronin Rhythms Records--four with his now-longstanding Ronin, plus a solo piano record and the album that started it all, Ritual Groove Music (2001), with his ...
Continue ReadingSha's Banryu: Chessboxing Volume One
by John Kelman
With a group possessing as strong and unique an identity as Swiss pianist Nik Bartsch's Ronin--heard most recently on the remarkable Holon (ECM, 2008) and in performance in Kristiansand, Norway at Punkt 08--It's not surprising that the debut album by its reedman Sha possesses many of the same characteristics. Ronin, after all, is more than just a group; it's a musical philosophy combining minimalist tendencies with deep grooves and improvisation so subtle that it's at a near subconscious level. Chessboxing ...
Continue ReadingIndo-Fusion Guitarist Rahul Mukerji To Release Debut Album "Ma De Re Sha"
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Glass Onyon PR - William James
Indo-Fusion guitarist Rahul Mukerji will be releasing his eagerly awaited debut album Ma De Re Sha on May 29, 2017! Rahul is a guitarist/musician based in Maryland, USA. Born in India, he has been performing live for over fifteen years. From dive bars and weddings, to crowds of thousands opening for the B-52s, he has had a varied performing career that has included gigs in jny: Chicago, jny: Boston, Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., and India. Rahul has been featured on ...
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Olivier Calmel Electro Couac Quintet Releases 'Sha-Docks'
Source:
All About Jazz
New album of Olivier Calmel's band upcoming on Septembre 2009.
Olivier Calmel Electro Couac Quintet
Christophe PANZANI (soprano & tenor saxophones) Frdric EYMARD (viola) Olivier CALMEL (piano, keyboards) Bruno SCHORP (double bass, electric bass) Frdric DELESTRE (drums) Vincent PEIRANI (accordion on Z trail OMT) Rmi MERLET (percussions on Z trail OMT) Karl JANNUSKA (percussions on Z trail OMT)
All compositions by Olivier CALMEL 2009
1. Z ...
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“Sha brillierte durch ein klanglich stupendes Solo auf der imposanten Kontrabass-Klarinette.“ Ueli Bernays NZZ CH
“Sha's bass clarinet haloed everything in mysterious ambient soundwashes“ Stuart Nicholson The Observer UK
"Whenever the monosyllabically named Sha steps into the spotlight, the reed player evokes the modal improvisations of musicians like John Coltrane and Jan Garbarek." Brent Burton Washington City Paper USA
"Multi-reedist Sha is essential to the Ronin experience
Primary Instrument
Clarinet
Location
Zurich
