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Meinrad Kneer
He co-led the quartet and septet Dalgoo together with reed player Tobias Klein between 1998 and 2005. He was awarded the prestigious ‘Jur Naessens Music Award’ in 2002 with the septet Dalgoo - New Anatomy, a project around the work of Russian absurdist and writer Daniil Charms. Currently he is involved as a (co-) leader in the groups: President of the Globe (a project around the work of Russian futurist writer Velimir Chlebnikov), the piano trio van Veenendaal/ Kneer/ Sun (“...one of Holland’s most interesting contemporary jazz groups” - Ken Vos in www.draaiomjeoren.nl, 6th March 2007), RAAM 5 (where dialogues from comic-strips meet improvised music) and an new exciting string- quintet (see groups).
As a sideman in demand he plays with groups such as: Bite the Gnatze, Play Station 6, the Joost Buis Tentet, The Gravitones, I Compani and Spoon 3. He has played with a wide variety of Dutch groups and projects such as Barana & Co, the AXYZ-Ensemble, the bigtet Tetzepi, the Ab Baars Quartet, Roomtone and the Henneman String-quartet.He has performed with among others, Najma Akhtar, Han Bennink, Fred Frith, Tobias Delius, Tristan Honsinger, Denise Jannah, Anne la Berge, Paul Lovens, Tony Overwater, Michael Vatcher and Corrie van Binsbergen.
In the past years he has been touring Russia, Poland, Slovenia, Moldavia, Bulgaria, France and Germany. Since 2001 his work as a composer has been supported by the ‘Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst‘.
In 2006 he co-founded together with pianist Albert van Veenendaal the independant label Evil Rabbit Records. Together with flutist Mark Alban Lotz he organizes a creative music series for free improvisation: u-ex(perimental) in the SJU Jazzpodium in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
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Julie Sassoon Quartet: Voyages
by Mike Jurkovic
As on a high speed, downhill slalom chase, listeners are suddenly, nakedly and without poles hurled into Missed Calls"; the opening burst of sublime energy and groupthink cracks Voyages wide open, sets the mad, determined pace and tone for a craftily organic, six-song, free-jazz adventure which never lets up. It is breakneck rhythm churning, keening, into whiplash waves, a wake up call of massive proportions. Missed Calls" busts Berlin-based, British pianist Julie Sassoon and her henchmen from isolation and double ...
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by Dan McClenaghan
Not all voyages involve smooth sailing. Indeed, pianist Julie Sassoon's Voyages opens on a blustery note. It is a quartet outing--as opposed to Sassoon's 2021 solo set, When You Can't go Outside...Go Inside (Jazzwerkstatt), with the pianist joined by reedman Lothar Ohlmeier, bassist Meirad Kneer and drummer Rudi Fischerlehner. The opener, Missed Calls," sounds like a prelude to battening down the hatches in its blustery beginning section, before Sassoon take an introverted solo during a lull in the squall.
read moreAndreas Willers 7 of 8: The Goldman Variations
by Alberto Bazzurro
Disco composito, felicemente irregolare, questo del sestetto (in un caso settetto) diretto dal sessantatreenne chitarrista tedesco Andreas Willers, con le stimmate dell'opera largamente meditata, fortemente intenzionale, nella concezione così come nel gesto che ne accompagna la messa in pratica. Partenza al fulmicotone nel breve Case of Need" e poi momenti più riflessivi, quasi sfuggenti, ma sempre con quelle nervature intestine che ne testimoniano la grana, lo spessore, l'urgenza creativa. Tutti lavorano ottimamente, sia negli insiemi, mai amorfi ...
read moreMeinrad Kneer e il Questionario di Proust
by Paolo Peviani
All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Meinrad Kneer: La mia musica è un mix di diverse influenze, provenienti da diversi stili musicali AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. M.K. : Autenticità, pazienza, che abbiano buone orecchie e sappiano quando piazzare le loro affermazioni musicali. Buona capacità di raccontare storie. AAJ: Come musicista, il momento in cui sono stato più felice. ...
read moreMark Alban Lotz & Meinrad Kneer CD Release "U-Ex(perimental)"
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Mark Alban Lotz
Holland based multi flutist Mark Alban Lotz and German bassist Meinrad Kneer released a new CD with 26 tracks of extreme textures and atmospheres with both established, as well as emerging new talents of the Dutch improvised scene. An example of the present-day developments and diversity of free music in Holland. u-ex(perimental) is an improvised music concert series, based in Utrecht, the Netherlands. a platform for spontaneous encounters of improvising musicians in concert. Evil Rabbit Records ERR17. Musicians include: Mark ...
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... Kneer is the perfect glue... (His) sophisticated contribution holds their stream of ideas together and thus creates an overview for both the band and the public. (Micha Andriessen, Jazzenzo / 5th March 2007)
... Van Veenendaal and Kneer write gripping compositions that take a whimsical course and reach a lot further than the typical theme-solo-theme setup found in most jazz music. (Jazzflits, Herman te Loo, 11th February 2007)