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Ronin I bought the CD but was not impressed quiet boring and cold too much control may be live ? Claude 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