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COMPOSITIONS AND STEINWAY PIANO SOLO PERFORMANCE BY MANUEL ENGEL - PREPARED PIANO ON ALL TRACKS (METAL BOX, SCREWS, PLASTIC BAG, CLIPS, ID CARD) LOOPSTATION ON TRACKS GLOOM + PUSH Recorded at Cratoule Sounds - France Mastered by Telegraph Mastering - USA |
THE AWAKENING is percussive from the first moment on. A gong, cowbells, cymbals, on top of each other being hit by a mallet stick. Like a discussion between large and small, rich and poor. They pray - like a fascination for the unknown, the strange and the different. And at times they meet for just a beat, a glance - they dance.
PUSH - I seem to hear the clock ticking but that can’t be. Instead it is the blood that runs - it pumps burble ringing in my ear. Then birds start falling on my car front. One after the other. Like rain - dropping them in pain. Some I wipe off my windshield as long as I can. But they just keep on falling. Like sound. Part of the morning rush hour of the daily routine. Finally I sing along - the requiem is on.
SEVEN comes in waves. All of it stays tribal. Like an untouched tribe somewhere deep in the amazonian forest where humans can not get to - schizophrenic. A seduction, an act between good and evil.
Engel, influenced by Erik Satie's stillness and John Cage's groundbreaking prepared piano techniques, PHONOMETRICIAN is an album that makes us experience ravishing dreamscapes and cosmic beings that fill our hearts with warmth and love.
Max Usata – Puts Marie
PHONOMETRICIAN TOUR 2024
January 28, 2024 Kreuz / Nidau CH
March 27, 2024 Merkstatt / Biel-Bienne CH
October 17, 2024 Mullbau / Luzern CH
October 18, 2024 Progr_013 / Bern CH
December 05, 2024 Le Singe / Biel-Bienne CH
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DAVID BINNEY MANUEL ENGEL
David Binney - alto sax and fx
Manuel Engel - prepared grand piano
David Binney – saxophonist, composer, producer
David Binney was born in Miami, Florida and raised in Southern California and has lived in NYC for 35 years. Acclaimed as a considerable and highly individual compositional talent, saxophonist David Binney is one of the most prolific jazz musicians on the scene today. Binney has won the Downbeat Critics Poll 3 different times in the alto saxophone category and placed in producer, album as well as in the Jazz Times polls and polls worldwide. Winning praise from critics and colleagues alike, David was singled out by Jazz Times as one of a handful of “players who have created an alternative jazz scene…" all of whom are playing adventurous, original music - www.davidbinney.com
Manuel Engel – pianist, composer, producer
Manuel Engel aka Henry Strongbox was born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland and has attended the Swiss Jazz School, Hochschule der Künste Bern and the New School University in NYC. 2000 - 2009 he has worked as a freelance musician in NYC , US. He has won a Billboard Songwriting Award, Chrysler Jazz Award, IndieSuisse Album of the Year Award (Puts Marie, featured on Masoch) and collaborated with Karsh Kale, Chico Freeman, Doug Weiss, Pepe Lienhard, Richie Beirach, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Ainsley Burrows among others.
ZINC CITY (Metonic Records) - 16th INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS TOP 5 (Category EP Jazz)
Recorded at Douglass Recording Brooklyn NY, USA
Engineered by Peter Karl - Music by Binney / Engel
FULL ALBUM: SPOTIFY / ITUNES
David Binney - alto sax and fx
Manuel Engel - prepared grand piano
David Binney – saxophonist, composer, producer
David Binney was born in Miami, Florida and raised in Southern California and has lived in NYC for 35 years. Acclaimed as a considerable and highly individual compositional talent, saxophonist David Binney is one of the most prolific jazz musicians on the scene today. Binney has won the Downbeat Critics Poll 3 different times in the alto saxophone category and placed in producer, album as well as in the Jazz Times polls and polls worldwide. Winning praise from critics and colleagues alike, David was singled out by Jazz Times as one of a handful of “players who have created an alternative jazz scene…" all of whom are playing adventurous, original music - www.davidbinney.com
Manuel Engel – pianist, composer, producer
Manuel Engel aka Henry Strongbox was born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland and has attended the Swiss Jazz School, Hochschule der Künste Bern and the New School University in NYC. 2000 - 2009 he has worked as a freelance musician in NYC , US. He has won a Billboard Songwriting Award, Chrysler Jazz Award, IndieSuisse Album of the Year Award (Puts Marie, featured on Masoch) and collaborated with Karsh Kale, Chico Freeman, Doug Weiss, Pepe Lienhard, Richie Beirach, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Ainsley Burrows among others.
ZINC CITY (Metonic Records) - 16th INDEPENDENT MUSIC AWARDS TOP 5 (Category EP Jazz)
Recorded at Douglass Recording Brooklyn NY, USA
Engineered by Peter Karl - Music by Binney / Engel
FULL ALBUM: SPOTIFY / ITUNES
HENRY STRONGBOX
Henry Strongbox loves to build boxes which bleep, screw, scream, scratch and twirl. These self-made boxes can also reproduce fat beats, deep dub basses and energetic melodies. Henry Strongbox is collecting vintage boxes as well such as the stylophone box from 1967 or a wooden wurlitzer from 1964. Henry Strongbox is on a mission to advance the perception of sound. Through his performances he is channeling excitement, love and dada – there ain´t no box without a paradox!
His first release entitled LEGO BOX (USB STICK 100 pcs for promotional use only) contains music and videos from 2015 - 2020 produced in different recording studios (from New York City, US to Bienne City, CH). Including live performances such as Henry's Piano Box at Coupole Bienne City / Mullbau Mini Festival / Residency @ Espace Libre (Centre PasquArt) / Tracy Love´s Lokal Pizza Radio Show - www.henrystrongbox.com
FULL ALBUM: BANDCAMP.COM
Recorded at Atelier1 Biel/Bienne, Switzerland