Video : Valentin Heun Music : Markus Breuss SOLO-PERFORMANCE
Sala Manuel de Falla, Madrid, 25.6.1996
PRESS
"An advice from Mrs.Variety..."
(José Ramón Rubio - EL PAÍS)
"Markus Breuss, autre 'bricoleur' genial qui use de la trompette de poche et du didjeridoo... Une approche autre et raisonnablement moderne du son." (Philippe Renaud - IMPRO JAZZ)
"Markus Breuss has sometimes been labelled as a combination of Pink Floyd with Stockhausen..."
(J.M. Nativa - EL PAÍS)
"Flowers of the improvisation among the galaxies, the 'zip' sound, the dizzy rhythm. Essential."
(Antonio Murga - ROCK DE LUX)
"Markus Breuss, the director of Clónicos -the purest formation of the avant-garde scene in Madrid- left us completely astonished with a collection of unexpected sonic registers."
(Karles Torra - LA VANGUARDIA)
"A sublimation of the sonorous abstraction through the most beautiful chaos, near from the total nirvana... Upsetting and magisterial."
(Luis Llés - DIARIO DEL ALTO ARAGON)
"...wahnsinnige und beeindruckende Musik...Die sechs ausgeflippten Spanier leisteten geistige und körperliche Schwerstarbeit, ihr Konzert wirkte wie eine einmalige Aktion, die einen völlig in den Bann zog."
(M.Heinisch - SKUG, Wien)
"Actually, a model recital with no concessions; a recital that does not abound at all."
(Miguel Jurado - EL PAÍS)
"Dalla Spagna, Markus Breuss con i deliziosi Clonicos ha offerto uno spettacolo vivacissimo, impeccabilmente eseguite nell..allegra 'finta confusione' del palcoscenico."
(Michele Mannucci - MUSICA JAZZ)
"...that scenic self-confidence that makes his multi-instrumental spectacles to be something hardly to trivialize."
(Luis Martín - EL MUNDO)
"We must label this Swiss musician, who was born in Altstätten, as indispensable in the Spanish avant-garde musical scene. An unclassificable, self-taught person and a prototype of the current Renaissance Artist, Markus Breuss is guaranteed by more than 150 compositions of a very different Nature: chamber music, electro-acoustic, jazz, experimental rock, computer music and sound tracks for theatre. As an interpreter, he plays the trumpet, the tuba, the keyboards, the percussion and the fliscorno(sic.); besides, he also plays toy instruments, samplers, tapes, record players... and self-made instruments."
(Antonio Murga - MUSICA GLOBAL)
"The East and its spicy flavours; jazz with experimental tradition; the gestural and the scenic matter; the sincere musical event of an improvisation with street musicians; the searching for the ancestral instruments made of bone or of the noble metal from the Tibet's mythical lutery (sic.). The ancestor and the spontaneity of the musical affair are closely bound together , generating Markus Breuss as a musician that does bind himself only from a quiet passion..."
(Gonzalo Fernández - notes for the programme of "Lost and Hidden Items", open in 1999 in Museo-Centro de Arte Reina Sofía)
A Call for Ra
long ago
Influences
AMM, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Louis Armstrong, Art Zoyd, Aphex Twin, George Antheil, Albert Ayler, Bach, Derek Bailey, Llorenç Barber, Bela Bartok, Alban Berg, Luciano Berio, Joseph Beuys, Blue Notes, Lester Bowie, Anthony Braxton, Clifford Brown, John Cage, Captain Beefheart, Cassiber, Charlie Chaplin, Eugene Chadbourne, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Don Cherry, Clónicos, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Henry Cowell, Andrew Cyrille, Dada, Hugh Davis, Miles Davis, Claude Debussy, Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, Bill Dixon, Doctor Nerve, Eric Dolphy, Duke Ellington, Brian Eno, Gil Evans, Faust, Fela, Morton Feldman, Luc Ferrari, Fred Frith, Globe Unity Orchestra, Robert Graettinger, Golden Palominos, Kadri Gopalnath, Jon Hassell, Jimi Hendrix, Henry Cow, Pierre Henry, Zakir Hussain, Charles Ives, Bhimsen Joshi, Ali Akbar Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Rashid Khan, Ustad Bismillah Khan, King Crimson, Franz Koglmann, Toshinori Kondo, Takehisa Kosugi, Gottfried Michael König, Helmut Lachenmann, Bill Laswell, Georg Lewis, Liberation Music Orchestra, György Ligeti, Arto Lindsay, Booker Little, Lounge Lizards, Alvin Lucier, Jimmy Lyons, Magma, Michael Mantler, Christian Marclay, Marx Brothers, Material, Olivier Messiaen, Charles Mingus, Nils Petter Molvaer, Ennio Morrricone, Monteverdi, David Moss, David Murray, Sunny Murray, Music Improvisation Company, Naked City, Conlon Nancarrow, Napalm Death, Negativland, Luigi Nono, Bob Ostertag, Nam June Paik, Pandith Pran Nath, Harry Partch, Krzystof Penderecki, Astor Piazzola, Pink Floyd, Maurice Ravel, Satyajit Ray, Steve Reich, Residents, Terry Riley, Rip Rig & Panic, Max Roach, Ruins, Santana, Eric Satie, Giascinto Scelsi, Pierre Schäffer, Arnold Schönberg, Gunther Schuller, Ravi Shankar, Elliott Sharp, Sonny Sharrock, Leo Smith, Soft Machine, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Igor Stravinky, Sun Ra, Squarepusher, Toru Takemitsu, Cecil Taylor, Thyagaraja, Eric Truffaz, David Tudor, Univers Zero, Edgar Varèse, Velvet Underground, Voice Crack, Michel Waisvisz, Anton Webern, Kurt Weill, Randy Weston, Gerald Wilson, Nate Wooley, the Work, Robert Wyatt, Iannis Xenakis, Yesudass, Isang Yun, Frank Zappa, Bernd Alois Zimmermann, John Zorn...... and many many more.....
and - of course ! - folk / pop and classical music from all around the world.....
" from no-noise to post-noise"
Markus Breuss, an emblematic figure of creative freedom, is an eclectic and innovative composer, trumpeter and creator of electronic music and one of the most singular composers and multi-instrumentalists within the European musical scene. Alternating between Spain with extended periods in India, Breuss combines oriental influences with classical, popular, and experimental elements in his music. He is the founder of the innovative Spanish group Clonicos and breaks new ground in his improvisational work with Scorecrackers, Kalimpong Trio and the Trio Peregrino.
Markus Breuss was born in Altstätten (Switzerland).
His father Joseph Breuss, a trumpet player in the Symphony Orchestra of St. Gallen, taught him how to play the trumpet, and launched his performing career as a trumpet player in the Opera Aida by Verdi.
Grounded in classical music, he branched out into jazz and rock, and soon began to develop his own sound .
Markus Breuss has registered more than 2008 works, and collaborated with artists/groups such as Malcolm Goldstein, Taller de Musica Mundana, Derribos Arias, Los Pekenikes, Fatima Miranda, Finis Africae, Mil Dolores Pequeños and Macromassa to name just a few.
Markus Breuss has performed at numerous prestigious venues including Fundacion Joan Miro (Barcelona), Arco (Madrid), New Jazz Festival Moers (Germany), Actual Festival (Logroño), LEM-Festival (Barcelone), International Festival of Electroacoustic Music (Madrid), Hurta Cordel Festival of Improvised Music (Madrid), Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (Madrid), and the National Auditorium of Music (Madrid), Impromusica Fes (Yokohama), etc.
His compositions have been played all over Europe, in Uruguay, Morocco, India and Japan.
In 2001, he opened the Spanish concert of the SUN RA Archestra in Huesca with his solo performance of “Awake Hu”. In June 2007, he premiered a solo concert for trumpets, experimental electronic sounds and field-recordings and recently, he toured Japan with Tsukiko Amakawa, his co-musician in the Duo FAKTOR BOSSAR.
Markus Breuss lives at the Costa del Sol in Spain, where he is regarded a very special figure in the local high-life.
His passion for music is only equaled by his love for Indian cooking.
(Victor Nubla)
Discography
-Seguridad y Televisión (cassette, Cloned Tapes, 1984)
-Tubes and Cubes (cassette, Toracic Tapes, 1989)
-Desnudo (Hyades Arts, 1992 / Doronko Records, 2000, cassette - CD)
-Awake Hu (CD, CEDI, 1999)
-Zwei Kompositionen (CD, Doronko Records, 1999)
-Muda na Kenshin - Devoción Inútil (CD, Doronko Records, 021, 2000)
-Conferencia Sonora (CD, Doronko Records 025, 2002)
Compilations:
-Richard Kimball es inocente (partes l a lV) (Schwarzkopf", cassette, Toracic -Tapes, 1989)
-Entschlüsse ("Franz Kafka", cassette, Hyades Arts, 1991)
-An Urban Meeting ("Audioscope", CD, Geometrik, 1992)
-The Return of Monster Magnet ("Unmatched Evangelio 2º", CD, Hall Of Fame, 1997)
-Modelo Piloto 2.5 (Book-Record "Laboratorio", El Europeo, 2001)
-Markus Breuss_Nilo Gallego: LeonCage (CD, Doronko Records, 2001)
4 Sun Ra en Huesca 2001 DEXIDRINA 32. LIVE IN MADRID with Nilo Gallego, Pablo Rega "Pasaje" Markus Breuss with La Banda Municipal de Barcelona
with Clónicos:
-Aspetti Diversi (LP/CD, Linterna, 1985)
-Figuras Españolas (LP, Gasa, 1988)
-Copa De Veneno (CD/LP/cassette, Ed. Cúbicas, 1990)
-Esquizodelia (CD, Triquinoise, 1995)
-Clónicos/1996 - El mundo del fin del tiempo (Soundtrack) (CD, Doronko, 2001)
-Burnt Hits (CD, Doronko, compilation, 2002)
with OCQ:
-OCQ (LP/CD, Linterna, 1986)
-Metalógica (LP, Linterna, 1988)
with Scorecrackers:
-Eating Flowers (CD, Por Caridad, 1997)
-x2 d2 (unpublished track on "Trienni" CD, G3G/Talp Club, 1999)
with Kalimpong Trio:
Markus Breuss - Margarita Blanca Laginestra - Victor Manuel M. Vázquez
-Washi Chiyogami (CD, Hazard Records, 2000)
with Trio Peregrino:
Gregorio Kazaroff - Iñaki Rios - Markus Breuss:
-En el Albergue de Peregrinos (CD recorded -live- in León, Doronko Records, 2002)
trumpets & horns Markus Breuss plays
with Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet:
-Concert for Kowald (CD, Hazard Records, 2003)
-Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet: Nfamoudou-Boudougou (CD, Hazard Records, 2004)
with Faktor Bossar:
-Tsukiko Amakawa-Markus Breuss: Slow & Hard (CD, Doronko Records, 2003)
-Markus Breuss-Tsukiko Amakawa: 7 pm Eastern Wartime (CD, Doronko Records, 2003)
-Faktor Bossar (Breuss_Amakawa): Days of Cries and Poses (CD, Doronko Records, 2005)
Colaboraciones con:
- Orgón, Angel Rubio, Pelayo Arrizabalaga, Christian Marclay, Voice Crack, Sergí Jordá, Nilo Gallego, Dada-Jazz, Ten to Two, Esclarecidos, Ciudad Jardín, Derribos Arias, La Dama se Esconde, High Tech Animal, Paco Clavel, Los Coyotes, Las Ruedas, Domingo y los Cítricos, TDK, Los Mestizos, Inquilinos del Quinto,Macromassa, Carpinchos, Dead Capo, Takehisa Kosugi, Malcolm Goldstein, Phillipe Corner, Alvin Curran , Llorenç Barber, Fatima Miranda, Orquesta del Cáos, Grupo Cosmos, Alain Piñero, EMFA.........
Formó parte de :
- Los Pekenikes, Lions in Love, Mil Dolores Pequeños, Big Band del Foro, Big Band AMADS dirigida por Bruno Tomasso, Jean-Luc Vallet Big Band, Renato Cordovani Sextet, Orquesta FOCO, Luis Paniagua Trío, Deutica Zirta......
3 TRUMPETS IMAXINA SONS / Festival de Jazz de Vigo Markus Breuss : Chips y Columnas De Aire (Chips and Air Columns)
Markus Breuss describes his own show as an electroacoustic ritual: with the help of digital sound processors and field recordings, he produces alternative sounds and tunes. The trumpets he uses are varied, and include the Australian didgeridoo, the Tibetan kang-ling (manufactured with a human thighbone), the Indian shanka (a type of sea shell), the Bolivian pututu, etc. His contribution to modern music is one of merger of electronics —and the different possibilities it provides— with the natural sounds of the instruments he plays, including a number of small percussion devices that enrich his music.
Markus Breuss has worked and recorded with pop, rock, jazz, improvisation and experimental ensembles, as well as with classical and contemporary music groups. In 2001, he played is Huesca (Spain) as the supporting instrumentalist for a Sun Ra Arkestra concert, led by Marshall Allen.
Apart form composing for his own musical projects, (O.C.Q., Clónicos, Scorecrackers, Faktor Bossar, etc.), he has often been commissioned to write symphonic and electroacoustic compositions.
Markus Breuss: Western trumpet, ethnic trumpets and electronics
How are you, Markus Breuss? Haven't checked in on you lately, so I swung by to wish you a happy holiday season & hope you are feeling well! Listen, I have another track up on my page, "Attack Of The Mushroom People." You can Hear it right Now, if you'd like at: www.myspace.com/psychedelicpablo OK, that's it for the shameless self-promotion.Thanks for being a friend. adios for now! Pablo
Hello, It's always a pleasure to contact my friends, first thanks for your friendship and hope all is well. if you have time, there are some new videos on my page. Life is beautiful. All the best - Pat.
" from no-noise to post-noise"
Markus Breuss, an emblematic figure of creative freedom, is an eclectic and innovative composer, trumpeter and creator of electronic music and one of the most singular composers and multi-instrumentalists within the European musical scene. Alternating between Spain with extended periods in India, Breuss combines oriental influences with classical, popular, and experimental elements in his music. He is the founder of the innovative Spanish group Clonicos and breaks new ground in his improvisational work with Scorecrackers, Kalimpong Trio and the Trio Peregrino.
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