Vilde&Inga is a young string duo playing acoustic free improvised music, featuring violin and double bass. By exploring nontraditional approaches to the instruments, the duo greatly expands their timbre palette. The wide horizons of colour allow the music to develop slowly and organically, yet with a keen underlying sense of compositional form.


VILDE&INGA

Vilde Sandve Alnæs and Inga Margrete Aas are classically trained musicians from Norway. They started to play together in 2010 and have studied at The Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo. Vilde&Inga regularly plays concerts both in Norway and internationally. They have also played with Sidsel Endresen, Christian Wallumrød, Ivar Grydeland, Henrik Munkeby Nørstebo, Xavier Charles, Espen Reinertsen, Eivind Lønning and with the quartet Dans les Arbres. Festivals they have visited include Kongsberg Jazzfestival, Only Connect Festival of Sound, Vinterlyd festival, Ultima - Oslo Contemporary Music Festival and Sound Disobedience. Vilde&Inga's first album, Makrofauna, was released on ECM in March 2014.

"(...) the dark beauty of the music lies just as much in the redefinition of the instruments; the violin refusing to be violin, the double bass refusing to be double bass. Using the outer limits of the instruments’ possibilities, the duo conjures up a musical palette of their own, with a richness of nuance and detail worthy of ensembles of far greater sizes. (...) the listening is continuously accentuated and the intensity constantly reinforced, by the possibility that any second, the fragile calm of the moment can be turned into disquiet and desperation." - Martin Rane Bauck in the liner notes for Makrofauna

INGAR ZACH / solo

Ingar Zach solo percussion project comprises an extended use of acoustic percussion, electronics and field-recordings. I.Z. is known for his delicate use of sound and his creation in time and space. The fundament of his performances is slow development of his characteristic materials such as drones, tonal interferences, sharp perussion and haunting pulses in a fine balance between composed and improvised elements. In the last 10 years, I.Z. has developed a significant and personal voice in the contemporary music scene. His solo productions have been widely appreciated by critics and the public, and his last solo-cd: M.O.S. (SOFA 532) was nominated as CD of the year by WDR radio in Germany.

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"Recommended recently as a possible contender for the most innovative album of the year award, I did not include it because I hadn't heard it. I have now, and I must say it would not have been misplaced on the list. It moves the category of "solo percussion" into a totally new place, with lots of percussion instruments played simultaneously (and using some electronics, I assume), in one long piece of thirty-seven minutes, with a sense of dynamic unity and structure that go well beyond the traditional solo albums by percussionists." - The Free Jazz Collective

Ingar Zach by francemusique