Friday, October 16 at 20:00. Doors open at 19:00 - kr 360/310/260
For Nik Bärtsch, playing a concert is a meditative and explosive form of collaboration. This is likely a description most musicians would agree with, but when the music is zen-funk and “ritual groove music,” it quickly gains extra energy in both the meditation and the explosion.
The Swiss pianist and composer Nik Bärtsch is back with his long-standing quartet Ronin. They present music from SPIN, their ninth album – and the first with the new bassist Jeremias Keller. The band is known for its grooving, hypnotic sense of rhythm and blends influences from funk, classical music, and Japanese ritual sounds into something truly original.
On the album SPIN, Ronin looks both forward and backward. The characteristic tight, rhythmic, and meditative sound is still at the core, but it is filled with fresh energy and playful freedom. There is a new lightness in the music, a sense of exploration within its clear structures.
You can expect intricate details, subtle shifts in a soundscape close to indie, post-rock, and ambient pop. It is jazz, but not as you know it – this is music that invites you to listen closely, move gently, and then get lost in the groove.
