15.03.2002 - Einlass: 21:00:00 Beginn: 21:30:00
Jazzkeller Treptow - Puschkinallee 5, 12435

ON TRIO featuring Ernesto Diaz-Infante and Chris Forsyth

ON TRIO - Jeff Gburek - Gitarre, asian traditional instruments
ON TRIO - Ralf Peters - Bass
ON TRIO - Will Connor - Perkussion
ON TRIO - Ernesto Diaz-Infante - Gitarre
ON TRIO - Chris Forsyth - Gitarre

Artist description: Trio of strings and percussion with ocassional guest musicians that improvise high energy sound scapes, Music style, Improvised Creative Music, Musical influences, Peter Brotzmann, Zorn, Derek Bailey, Anthony Braxton, Hans Koch, Similar Artists: Thurston Moore, Rashaid Ali, and the Volcanoes

Artist history: The ON! Trio travelled through Germany in 1999 and 2000 consisting of Jeff Gburek on Strings, Ralf Peters on Bass, and Olli Krause on Percussion. They recorded the live tracks heard hear during that stint. Olli Krause is the son of a high-school jazz-band teacher from Salzwedel, where he grew up with Ralf Peters. Although schooled from early childhood in music, he chose to study the art of antique restoration in Italy and returned to Germany to found his own business. With a new workshop in Berlin and orders coming in, he is too busy to continue playing music with ON! Will Connor was invited to join the group in 2001 and wil be traveling with the band on their 2002 German tour. Ralf Peters, born in Salzwedel, lives currently in Berlin with his wife and newborn son. Trained in contrabass and guitar, he performed with variousTango groups. Picking up the electric bass he founded the noise-rock group Mama Said No. Jeff Gburek (born 1963) is a multi-instrumentalist following the path of a butoh-inspired transformational music. For 26 years a self-taught guitarist, he has played jazz and classical until adopting preaparations and electronic modifications. He studied classical Javanese gamelan music with Pak Suhardi in Yogyakarta and has been strongly influenced by Indian music, microtonalists, experimental improvisors and freedom jazz. His composition for six microtonal guitars and micro-incremental butoh movement, Aint Observin Increments, premiered at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin in March, 2001. Last year he did concerts as guitarist, violinist and rebab player throughout Germany with Konrad Bauer, Joachim Gies, Michael Vorfeldt, Michael Walz, Joe Williamson, Panik Musik and his free jazz trio ON!. He toured with DJALMA September 2000 and October 2001 along with Indian sitarist Neel Murgai, Derek Bailey award-winner Chris Forsyth and Rich Gross. In New York he has performed alongside Toshi Makihara, Daniel Carter and Graham Haynes. He has recorded the rebab for Joaquin Claussel and Nitin Soni. . 'When Jeff Gburek plays the guitar, you can not be sure what is happening. The sounds result from strange preparations and wirings and mutated effects. But there is absolutely NO computerized midi nonsense or loops. It's all raw sonic energy and composed with a technique that obeys commands from some other world.' ---San Francisco BAY Chronicle Will started playing drums and composing experimental pieces in 1980 while studying to obtain his Physics/Music degree from Clemson University. Since then, he has recorded with many projects that range from Math-Punk to Avant Garde Composition to Improvised Free Jazz and even live Jungle with bands such as the Chaotic Arts Ensemble, one3four, the Triangle Creative Musicians Cooperative, and his current projects, BAAMPHF! and the Feraliminal Lycanthropizers. Will has worked with great musicians such as Eddie Wynn (Marion Brown, McCoy Tyner) and Dick Underwood (Miles Davis) and he has toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe playing gigs such as the NoZart Festival, Koln, Germany and the Smallands Nation Experimental Music Festival, Lund, Sweden. Mr.. Connor is currently studying ethnomusicology and he is planning on traveling to Tibet and Nepal next year to study Tibetan Dramyen music. Will is now living in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA with his three dogs and three cats where he tends to his large collection of cacti. Instruments: Guitar, Upright Bass, Drums, Asian Traditional Instruments. Albums: Live at Cottbus, Location, Raleigh, North Carolina - USA