Hasse Poulsen -gt
Mark Sandsers - drums
Luc Ex -bass

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Sidsel Endresen   or   Phil Minton

A quartet of European improvisers invited by Hasse Poulsen. It came together for the first time in March 2006 at the Banlieues Bleues festival North of Paris. The four different personalities really work well together. Many concerts has followed on jazz festivals in France, England, Finland and Germany.
This very rough and energetic style of improvising, sometimes abstract, sometimes more like ‘songs’ is very well received. The beauty also lies in the different backgrounds of the musicians. Sidsel Endresen, with her very beautifull voice and her special ‘sidsel-language’, comes from world of contempory music and music around the ‘ECM’-label. Mark plays with a wide range of jazz musicians (Evan Parker, Steve Beresford, Bill Laswell) but also with more ‘rock’ groups like Jah Wobble. Hasse plays in the group of Louis Sclavis and his acoustic guitar can easely combine almost classical jazz with pure noise. One of those concerts (Stasbourg) was very well recorded. This was lucky because not always a good concert equals a good recording but this time everything fell on it’s place: 58 minutes of intense, sharp and beautiful free improvised music - see RED NOTE. 

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Hasse Poulsen, Sidsel Endresen, Mark sanders