Barcelona Series I-XI

 
Sven-Åke Johansson: drums

Axel Dörner: trumpet

Andrea Neumann: inside piano

 
Characteristic of Barcelona Series is a mechanistic, almost non-expressive playing stance, even an aesthetic of renouncement, or more appropriately said, of leaving out instead of filling in. Peeling, a certain nakedness, "non-sounding" passages positioned vis-à-vis individual tones in space – "placed" – fire crackles!, the diagonal of the green-yellow tile.

SÅJ, 2000

"The ensemble heard on this CD, a group cultivating, as Johansson puts it,
'a mechanistic, almost non-expressive playing stance, with the aestethics of renoucement or of leaving out instead of filling in' . . . .
Non-expressive improvisation? Aesthetics of reduction? Sounds familiar . . . A music hard to pingpong and yet occupying a sonic niche of its very own."

Peter Niklas Wilson

Barcelona Series by Johansson, Dörner, Neumann
Published by Trutah Publishing/SUISA
Recorded in 1999 by W. Blazejczak at SÅJ Studio, Berlin
Liner notes by Peter Niklas Wilson

Cover photo by Andrea Neumann