The Paintress Sarah Buechi Contradiction of Happiness & Jena Philharmonic

• Sarah Buechi (b. 1981):
• 1 Creation 07:38
• 2 Lullaby (for Conan) 08:30
• 3 C-Void 91 07:26
• 4 Lion Heart 05:41
• 5 Precious Stone 08:39
• 6 Stets I Truure 04:02
• 7 Hungry Crocodiles. 07:04
• 8 T.A.S. Mani 04:41
• 9 Nobody Knows (the future I've seen) 06:19
• Total Runtime 01:00:00

Info for The Paintress

They've taken to the skies – the chamber orchestra and the septet of Sarah Buechi – masterfully beyond all categorisation. The singer's septet Contradiction of Happiness with piano, bass, drums and three string players is in itself already something of a polyphonic and liberated orchestra. Sarah Buechi has expanded this ensemble with the chamber orchestra of the Jena Philharmonic. The success of the first performance was overwhelming and the recordings on this album, which also took place in Jena, enable one to experience and relive the playful ease with which this ambitious project was accomplished.

Classical intonation, Jazz vocalisations, chanting, microtones reminiscent of Indian music and Konnakol, rhythmic vocalisation – all these elements exist companionably in the compositions. "A music full of the joy of understanding," writes German jazz journalist Bert Noglik in the liner notes, "of the flapping of the wings of the poetic in the joint flight of the septet and the orchestra."

Sarah Buechi Contradiction of Happiness:
Sarah Buechi, voice
Vincent Membrez, piano
Wolfgang Zwiauer, bass
Lionel Friedli, drums
Estelle Beiner, violin
Isabelle Gottraux, viola
Sara Oswald, cello
Jena Philharmonic
Simon Gaudenz, direction

Recorded September 28 – 30, 2020 at Volkshaus Jena, Germany
Engineered by Moritz Wetter
Mixed by Moritz Wetter at Hardstudios Winterthur 2021
Mastered by Michael Brändli at Hardstudios Winterthur 2021

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Sarah Buechi
was raised in a musically active family and started playing the violin and piano at the age of five. After an award for a self-written musical theater she decided to take music as a profession. After graduating from Lucerne's prestigious Musikhochschule with two distinctions, she took a lengthy sabbatical in Bangalore immersing herself in South Indian Classical Music and Rhythm with concerts on festivals, radio and television. The results are apparent in her use of its demanding rhythmic and vocal techniques in a Jazz context. Out of her own projects THALi (Unit Records, 2010) is the first one that brought Sarah Buechi to the attention of the Swiss Jazz Scene and intern to international musical collaborations with outstanding personalities like Steve Coleman, Dave Liebman, Lucas Niggli, Nils Wogram, Ronan Guilfoyle, Christy Doran, Christoph Haberer and Christoph Stiefel. This brought her onto concerts, workshops and tours within Europe, South Amercia, USA, Canada, China and India. Sarah has been head of the Jazz vocal department at Newpark Music Centre, Dublin for four years (2008-2012), lived after that in London (2013-2015) and studied at the Complete Vocal Institute, Copenhagen (2012-2015). In Switzerland in 2005 she was awarded the Friedl-Wald-Foundation prize and three times she was awarded the Irish Travel and Training award for musical researches in Ghana, Paris, New York and Copenhagen.

Back in Switzerland, she taught at the MKZ, Zurich (2015-2018). Currently she is working at the Jazz vocal department of the WIAM, Winterthur (since 2016) and will start teaching at the vocal department of the Musikhochschule, Lucerne (HSLU) in September 2018.

In 2018 she is releasing her fourth album as a band leader on Intakt Records and collaborates with established musicians in various other projects.

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