Character Pieces Rebecca Trescher

• 1High Altitude Air07:49
• 2Wild Dream07:43
• 3The Cloud Walker05:03
• 4Prélude02:26
• 5Nacht10:24
• 6Aussichtsreich05:42
• 7Wildwasser06:02
• 8Le Moutardier08:03
• Total Runtime53:12

Info for Character Pieces

At high altitudes, it’s comforting when a melody inspires trust. Wild dreams begin peacefully. Cloud travelers move forward with uneven meters. But what would a night without harp be like? Layer by layer, new and constantly changing vistas open. In the riverbed, wild frothing waters run deep. And what is the mustard maker doing?

In the character pieces that Rebecca Trescher composed for her Tentet, there is much to hear, to experience, to think about. Subtly orchestrated symphonic sound colors merge into one another. Arcs of tension stretch to the horizon, full of intensifications, changes of direction, and rhythmic transformations. All of this is interspersed with spaces for improvisation as well as seamless transitions between combo passages and multi-voiced activity – always with great clarity. Rebecca Trescher plays the clarinet and loves melodies. Melodies are not linear. In the contexts where she employs them, they have a shimmering ambiguity. Trescher’s Tentet is an experienced team. Every member contributed an idea to this project. The bandleader used these ideas to make something of her own and returned them to the group, where the material fell on fertile soil – the result of the group’s years of working together.

When the players improvise, they are not necessarily playing jazz. Every member of the group is able to take on a constantly shifting array of roles, languages, and personal characteristics. Each player contributes their own version of the developing collective narrative, and all of these paths point in the same direction.

In Rebecca Trescher’s music, things are never as one might expect. No trusted formulas, no predictable changes, no hastily constructed comfort zone. It’s more complex. Always. A number of people, musical approaches, ideas, and dynamic or rhythmic proclivities are consistently involved, often simultaneously. And everything is significant.

Rebecca Trescher, clarinet, bass clarinet, composition, arrangement, concept
Julian Hesse, trumpet, flugelhorn
Joachim Lenhardt, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
Markus Harm, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet
Anton Mangold, concert harp, alto saxophone, clarinet, flute
Juri Kannheiser, cello
Andreas Feith, piano, possibly Wurlitzer, synthesizer
Roland Neffe, vibraphone, glockenspiel, sounds
Christian Diener, Double bass
Silvio Morger, drums, sounds (rustling, bells)
Friedrich Betz, sound, live mixing

Rebecca Trescher

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