Treasure Hunt Tomas Sauter

• 1 Treasure Hunt 06:16
• 2 Aubade 04:58
• 3 Bump 'n' Jump 04:28
• 4 Afterglow 03:58
• 5 Le Retour 05:58
• 6 Ice Fall 04:40
• 7 Wanderlust 07:09
• 8 Bird of Passage 06:53
• 9 Thin Line 04:57
• Total Runtime 49:17

Info for Treasure Hunt

With his new album "Treasure Hunt" Tomas Sauter once again confirms his reputation as a sovereign, tasteful leader. As an experienced producer, he has been amazing for years with his intuition for the best way to realize his own compositional intentions.

Sauter's densely woven sound fabric turns out to be a finely chiseled labyrinthine mosaic, in which one can easily lose oneself. The music entices you to let your imagination run free and to drift away in your thoughts. One wanders off, dives into remote worlds, in order to rediscover familiar things in the other from time to time. It's not for nothing that homesickness and wanderlust are sometimes close to each other. This hovering between near and far becomes clearly noticeable on "Treasure Hunt". The music full of energy, elegance and emotion evokes strong images, fiery desire and carries the listener away from the first note.

The magic of such a momentary art makes everything seem so simple and self-evident. The creative combination plays the multifaceted repertoire from the pen of the inspiring leader as if in a frenzy, lustfully and at the same time. Sauter's preference for intricate forms and tricky beats, the high artistic standards, the rhapsodic suite character and the intricate harmonic architecture of his compositions are easily forgotten in the midst of so much exhilarating joy of playing.

The music of this extraordinary quintet is full of life: "Treasure Hunt" goes straight to the heart. When intricate compositions like "Treasure Hunt" or "Wanderlustk" come across as completely organic, light and airy, it not only touches the soul - it is also simply Contemporary Jazz at its Best!

Daniel Schläppi, bass
Domenic Landolf, tenor saxophone
Kevin Chesham, drums
Luzius Schuler, Fender Rhodes

Tomas Sauter
Began playing guitar at the age of 10.
Studied at the Lucerne Jazz School 1994-98
Teaching from 1998 at the "Jazz Pop Rock" department of the Biel Conservatory
2002-03 Master of Music studies at Purchase College, New York, USA
Studied with John Abercrombie, Hal Galper
From 2004 lecturer for jazz guitar and ensemble at the HKB Jazz Department, Bern University of the Arts

Awards:
Diploma "with distinction" at the Lucerne Jazz School,
Advancement award at the International Jazz Meeting "Generations 98" in Frauenfeld"
Radio Swiss National Award for CD production "Out Goes The Rat"
Dr. Medicus Scholarship 2002

Collaboration with the following musicians:
Tony Malaby, Chris Cheek, Matt Pavolka, Peter Schärli, Thomas Dürst, Christoph Baumann, John Voirol, Reimund Gerstner, Samuel Rohrer, Christoph Staudenmann, Urban Lienert, Samuel Joss, Lukas Bitterlin, Daniel Schläppi, Jan Brönnimann, Martin Streule, Marcel Papaux, Wolfgang Zwiauer, Fabian Kuratli, Domenic Landolf, Bänz Oester, Norbert Pfammatter, Patrice Moret, Markus Stockhausen, European Broadcast Union Orchestra 2004

This album contains no booklet.