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Hi Bernhard Wish I hadn't missed Lupus in Fabula. I only live a stone's throw away... Saw Ronin two weeks ago, though, and was deeply impressed. Should anyone make it to Zurich, they play at www.bazillusclub.ch every Monday evening. Cheers Nico Am 18.05.2007 um 13:57 schrieb Bernhard Wagner LD: > Monday I attended a concert by Ronin, whose Zen Funk concept and music > is well worth checking out: http://www.nikbaertsch.com/, last year > they released a CD "Stoa" on ECM. They work a lot with polyrhythmic > repetition, however without the use of loop machines. > > At the concert I bumped into Rätus Flisch, the bass player who > concluded the Zurich Loopfest 2005 with the band "Flisch - Röver - > Pfammatter". > > He handed me a flyer "Lupus in Fabula", which is what the original > line up has evolved into. It's still Rätus Flisch (flischnews.ch), > Christian Röver (christianrover.com), but a new italian > drummer/percussionist Enzo Zirilli (enzozirilli.com). > > So yesterday was their last gig of this tour in Winterthur, Esse > Musicbar and I had the pleasure to see them live. > > It was a terrific concert. The first set was very powerful and upbeat > while the second was more mellow. The style of their music is mostly > jazz. Both Rätus and Christian are professors at jazz institutions. > Christian used a headless Steinberger with transtrem and a "Voodoo" > guitar. I couldn't find information about it, but Christian presented > the instrument to the audience and said it's produced in Turin. Its > head looks like that of a classical acoustic guitar. The lower strings > go well into the domain of the bass guitar. Also the higher part of > the fretboard is fretless, so you can have a bit of that as well. The > instrument easily picks up any contacts with its body which Christian > applied beautifully in one piece as he played the percussion on the > guitar's body. Also he played around with the strap attachment which > generated some eery squeaks that he accumulated in a loop. > Christian used two Boomerangs. He told me afterwards that he also > plays duo gigs with Enzo where he even uses three Boomerangs. He is > very fond of the operation concept and the touch and response of the > Boomerang buttons. I asked him about how he does the synchronization > of his Boomerangs and he just pointed to his feet with a smile. He > said, if after two minutes he starts hearing a phase shift between the > loops, he was good... (the shorter the loop the harder this is to > achieve of course) > > Enzo is a terrific drummer and percussionist. He synchronizes his time > to the loops with apparent effortlessness. > > Rätus plays a double bass and uses an Oberheim EDP with the original > foot controller. I particularly enjoyed his use of the instrument as a > source of unexpected and surprising sounds. > > Their new CD "Lupus in Fabula" appeared on hmtz records > (http://hmtzrecords.hmt.edu/) > > Christian also released a self-made CD "Version 0.72 live - To Beatle > Or Not To Beatle" February this year. > You can hear the Voodoo guitar, occasional ring modulation and a lot > of loopage going on in a masterful jazzy, and often a tongue-in-cheek > sense of humour. All pieces are morphs between different covers of > famous pieces (e.g. "Love Me Tender" + "You've Got To Hide Your Love > Away" = "Love My Tender Hide"). > Check it out (christianrover.com) > > Bernhard