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Born in 1990, pianist Elias Stemeseder has become a creative force of contemporary jazz in recent years. Based primarily in New York since 2015, the Austrian-born pianist has made a name for himself in a wide variety of advanced improvisational contexts. Up to now, Stemeseder has been content to work as a sideman, though all those familiar with his work in the Jim Black Trio will know that he is a musician of remark - able skill, flair and imagination. His diverse playing ranges from song oriented to contemporary classical pieces to electronic music. His spirit of discovery leads him into different musical realms and thanks to his great empathy for the respective musical idiom, his piano playing always captivates with authenticity. Deeply rooted in the tradition of jazz and equipped with a fearless passion of experimentation, he distinguishes himself on this solo album as a profound pianist with a sovereign will to create. He is an inventive improviser whose playing sparkles with complexity and conceptual verve. On Piano Solo, Stemeseder skillfully plays with structures and moods and presents an album that is laden with surprises and bursting with ideas. "Stemeseder is a deeply mature musician with an abiding sense of inner reflection. That interior mindset is clear on this dazzling album" Peter Margasak
Philipp Groppers PHILM
players: Philipp Gropper (sax), Robert Landfermann (bass), Leif Berger (dr) and Elias Stemeseder (p)
Philm forges music that bursts forth with unexpected intensity and consequence. Through the band’s insistently sharp, cutting agitation, the music comes more into focus, reaching into the essence, the core, through a process that, with passionate urgency, opens up that core for all to hear. With Philm’s understanding that something only becomes exciting when it is no longer arbitrary, it shifts the boundaries of how we listen. The Berlin-based tenor saxophonist Philipp Gropper is underway with the NYC-based Austrian Elias Stemeseder on piano and synthesizer and the German working class heroes Leif Berger on drums and Robert Landfermann on double-bass. Philm use Gropper’s themes as a way of goading the jazz language to its limits, whilst still retaining the structure and style of the classic quartet line-up.
DUO Stemeseder Lillinger
"In contrast to other, more analog and determined musical environments we operate in, STEMESEDER-LILLINGER opens a space for electro-acoustic research which revolutionizes our way of thinking sound and performance. Manipulations of signal paths and utilization of self-produced samples allow for novel causal chains within the music and a reciprocal feedback between ourselves and our instruments. This feedback loop also occurs throughout the different MODI, in which parts of our repertoire take on new meaning due to changed sound environments. It is a continuous process in which materials and authors are in constant dialogue."
– ELIAS STEMESEDER & CHRISTIAN LILLINGER
