Simon Nabatov liebt es, in Duo-Besetzungen zu spielen. Über die Jahren waren seine Duo Partnern Han Bennink, Matthias Schubert, Nils Wogram, Ernst Reijseger, Tom Rainey, Gareth Lubbe, Oguz Buyukberber, Mark Dresser, Paulo Alvarez, Hayden Chisholm – um nur die langjährigen Kollaborationen mit veröffentlichten Aufnahmen zu nennen.

An den beiden Abenden im Dezember gibt es bei Tête-à-Tête zwei sehr unterschiedlichen musikalischen Wieder-Begegnungen mit zwei Saxophonisten der Extraklasse zu erleben – Frank Gratkowski (am Montag den 9.12.) und Michaël Attias (am Dienstag den 10.12.).

Die beiden Duos haben neue CDs veröffentlicht und präsentieren die Musik im Rahmen des zweitägigen Mini-Festivals.

http://www.nabatov.com/

https://michaelattias.com/

Klingt so:

Michaël Attias – reeds
Simon Nabatov – piano

From January 2024 on, the concerts at the LOFT start round 8.00 pm
Exceptions – e.g. on Sundays – are possible.

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Simon Nabatov loves to play in duo formations. Over the years, his duo partners have included Han Bennink, Matthias Schubert, Nils Wogram, Ernst Reijseger, Tom Rainey, Gareth Lubbe, Oguz Buyukberber, Mark Dresser, Paulo Alvarez, Hayden Chisholm – to name just a few of the long-standing collaborations with releases.

On the two evenings in December, Tête-à-Tête will feature two very different musical re-encounters with two saxophonists in a class of their own – Frank Gratkowski (on Monday, December 9th) and Michaël Attias (on Tuesday, December 10th).

The two duos have released new CDs and will be presenting their music as part of the two-day mini-festival.

Michaël Attias wrote about the new release Dream Walks, released on FSR Records:

“The starry floor/The watery shore/Is given thee til the break of day.”
William Blake

Music records a dream in which your other body goes out for a walk with a friend or two or more and brings back things you can grasp in the real world.
If the ground beneath you is water and reflects the stars you may dream you’re walking on stars. One morning, the Somnambulist woke up from his dream-walk with a record in his hand and miraculously they were all there: the uncanny encounters, spooling elucubrations and sundry telepathies, the underwater tangos with bio-luminescent angels, the slow-mo visions of white horses fleeing a burning sail-ship in the night. Following up on 2021’s Brooklyn Mischiefs, this is the second album dreamwalkers Simon Nabatov and Michaël Attias have recorded in duo. The listener is invited to leave her or his carcass behind and take a stroll.