Dino Saluzzi/Anja Lechner
church of the Abbey
at 13.00 PM
On Sunday October 1, the duo of Dino Saluzzi and Anja Lechner performs in the afternoon at the Leffe Abbey church. Although they have yet to release a duo album (their first duo disc is scheduled for 2007) the Argentinian bandoneon master and the German cellist have collaborated regularly for more than a decade. Primarily a ‘classical’musician, Lechner has also long been intrigued by aspects of improvisation in diverse traditions. It was her interest in tango nuevo that made the Rosamunde Quartet’s “Kultrum” collaboration with Saluzzi possible. Her duo concerts with Dino have been described by Jazz Review/Penguin Guide editor Richard Cook as “As close to perfection as any music-making I can recently recall.” Dino Saluzzi has been recording for ECM since 1982 in all kinds of contexts - solo, duo, in his Saluzzi Family Project, as a guest with Tomasz Stanko etc - in all situations he remains a spellbinding storyteller.
He is proud of the fact that he is essentially a self-taught player, coming from the oral tradition, and his goal is a music that can express itself unambiguously and with feeling: “Art doesn’t need muscles, doesn’t need the force created by power or fame. Let’s get back to simplicity, reduce complexity, renew the possibility of dialogue...”
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