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Album Review

Christoph Stiefel Inner Language Trio: Big Ship

Read "Big Ship" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Big Ship is the latest album to grace the extensive discography of Swiss pianist Christoph Stiefel and the fourth release from his Inner Language Trio. Stiefel is an underrated pianist. He lacks, so far, the public profile of other European players such as Joachim Kuhn or Michael Wollny but that's no reflection on his talent--as Big Ship clearly shows. For some time Steifel has been working with the concept of isorhythms--a musical strategy that dates back to mediaeval ...

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Interview

Christoph Stiefel: Isorhythms and Circus Clowns

Read "Christoph Stiefel: Isorhythms and Circus Clowns" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


It's the end of a lengthy but enjoyable telephone interview with Christoph Stiefel and things are drawing to a close. Then the pianist asks if he can add one more comment: “This is my year. This is a really happening year for me: it's incredible. I've developed my style solo and with my Inner Language Trio for eight, maybe 10 years. I've always had plans to incorporate my ideas into other projects: with a dancer, a bigger band and a ...

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Album Review

Christoph Stiefel Trio: 7 meilen Stiefel

Read "7 meilen Stiefel" reviewed by Ian Patterson


There is nothing new under the sun. What modern composers such as Kyle Gann and Bruce Hobson have done with rhythms in recent decades was already theory and practice in the fourteenth century. Here, on 7 meilen Stiefel, Swiss pianist Christoph Stiefel in turn explores the possibilities of isorhythms within the context of a contemporary jazz trio.

The employment of isorhythms, (or the layering of different repetitive rhythms) may sound like an intellectual exercise and one which might ...

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Big Ship

Basho Records
2014

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Bima Sakti

Unit Records
2012

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Live!

Basho Records
2012

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7 meilen Stiefel

Neuklang Records
2007

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Sweet Paradox

Unit Records
1997

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