Frelosa is a trio of Lotte Anker, saxophones, Samuel Dühsler, drums, and Fred Frith, electric guitar. Their record, Storytelling, was released on the Intuition label as one of their European Jazz Legends series in 2017. “There's something archaic and ritualistic about this, as if Frith wanted to…free himself from everything that had previously occupied him... But because (they) have the courage to trust their intuition completely, it is not the story itself that becomes an adventure, but the process of telling it.” Jazz Thing Now after a long hiatus they will perform again.

Fred Frith is a pioneer of the extended electric guitar. He learned to compose in Henry Cow, developed his song-writing skills in Art Bears, explored his multi-instrumentalism in Skeleton Crew, rocked the house with Massacre and is still doing all of those things, having been in one band or another continuously since 1964! Meanwhile his work has been performed by string quartets, orchestras, big bands and a whole range of groups and artists in the ever-expanding field of semi-popular music. Film music credits include the acclaimed documentaries Rivers and Tides, Leaning into the Wind, and Tracing Light directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer, The Tango Lesson, Yes and The Party by Sally Potter, Werner Penzel’s Zen for Nothing, Peter Mettler’s Gods, Gambling and LSD, and the award-winning (and Oscar-nominated) Last Day of Freedom, by Nomi Talisman and Dee Hibbert-Jones. Fred’s passion for improvising has increasingly led him to work with artists who don’t necessarily define themselves uniquely as improvisers. Recent collaborators include gabby fluke-mogul, Nina Garcia, Tim Hodgkinson, Tom Malmendier, Mariá Portugal, Paula Sanchez, and Susana Santos Silva.

Lotte Anker is an award-winning Copenhagen-based saxophonist/composer working in the hybrid and fluid field between improvisation, experimental jazz and contemporary composed music. As a performer/composer, she is particularly interested in the dynamics between 'free' improvisation and
compositional practices, with an emphasis on exploring qualities and possibilities in sound material, silence and space. Recent collaborations include Anker/Taborn/Cleaver (w/ Craig Taborn and Gerald
Cleaver), Wassermann/Anker/Parkins (w/ Ute Wassermann & Andrea Parkins), Lotte Anker & Fred Frith, and larger groups such as What River Ensemble, Electric Habitat and Sub Habitat. Other past and present collaborators include Magda Mayas, Tony Buck, Joëlle Léandre, Christof Kurzmann, Okkyung Lee, Sylvie Courvoiser, Ikue Mori, Evan Parker, Paul Lovens, Johannes Bauer, Sofia Jernberg, Satoko Fuji, Natsuki Tamura, John Edwards, Nate Wooley, Susana Santos Silva, Chris Corsano and
countless others. Lotte has performed and led workshops at numerous venues in Europe, USA, Canada, Russia, Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

The versatile Basel drummer Samuel Dühsler is actively involved in both the local and international jazz scenes. Since early studies at the renowned Berklee School he has worked in various free improvisation ensembles and
performed with musicians such as Barry Guy, Daniela Cattivelli, Larry Ochs, Darren Johnston, Rakalam Bob Moses, Manfred Schoof, Gerd Dudek, and Frank Wollny. Sam’s career has taken him to stages all over the
world—from Europe to Japan, Russia, China, North Africa, and the UK. He also works in dance, theater, and performance and has received numerous awards as composer, instrumentalist, and teacher. Current projects include the Ryan Carniaux Quintet, the Sandro P. Quartet, and Bänz Oester's "Rainmakers, European Edition."