Boštjan Simon solo + Igor Lumpert Syncronicity

Boštjan Simon, saxophone, electronics
Igor Lumpert, tenor, soprano saxophones; Leo Genovese, piano; Drew Gress, double bass; Jeff Williams, drums

Saxophonist and electronic music artist Boštjan Simon (Etceteral, There Be Monsters, Velkro, Litošt) presents a solo album geared at further developing the fusion of saxophone and electronic sounds. Occasionally tapping his saxophone keys as percussive instruments, Simon often tends to use them as an interface to generate tones and sequences on a modular synthesizer. The sequences of different lengths played at the same time overlap and flow seamlessly into one another, following an inner rhythm that is not quantized to an external matrix. What emerges is a vibrant, fluid mass of saxophone and electronic sound, music-making that becomes a one-off audio experience because of the nature of the modular synthesizer.
Slovenia’s most active and internationally renowned New York City-based musician Igor Lumpert always tends to astonish us with his new creations, the music he usually releases on the notable Portuguese label Clean Feed. For this European tour Lumpert has recruited four magnificent, seasoned musicians involved in the New York scene. The quartet has recorded music for a new album, which includes documentary material from Lumpert’s 2012 multimedia project Resistance of the Earth created for the concluding event of the European Capital of Culture.