Der Dritte Stand
Matthias Müller - trombone
Matthias Bauer - double bass
Rudi Fischerlehner - drums, percussion
Der Dritte Stand is a new trio from Berlin's thriving experimental music scene. "The CD title and trio name, which translates as the Third Estate, or the common people, came about after a fellow musician noted that each player’s surname initially denoted an ancient and honorable profession", explains Ken Waxman in the liner notes to the album.
The music is freely improvised and follows the impulses of the moment. From open, freely associated soundscapes to dense passages with distant echoes of free jazz, a wide range of possibilities of musical interplay are explored. A mutually supportive give and take and tension-filled alternations between solo, duo, and trio attest to the ensemble's hierarchy-free structure.
To quote Ken Waxman again: "Hard working musicians, who subtly refer to creative music’s proletarian roots, the trio members demolish any charges of elitism on this disc. At the same time the breath of their ideas and skill in performance promulgated during the suite move the performances into the realm of unpretentious high art."
Album
Der Dritte Stand, Not Applicable NOT061, 2022
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Press
"Musik zum Festhalten!"
Robert Miessner, taz
"Alle drei Akteure nutzen ein unverbrauchtes, weitgefächertes
Vokabular und wechselnde Timbres. Hier stimmt auch die
Dramaturgie: Mal gibt es ökonomische, aussparende Patterns, dann
wieder Verdichtung und Drive. Vor allem im Kollektivspiel
entwickelt Der Dritte Stand attraktive Farbmelangen und
Texturen. Die Agilität, die instrumentaltechnischen Qualitäten
der drei Virtuosen geben dieser Aufnahme dann noch zusätzliche
Intensitätsmomente."
Udo Andris, Jazzpodium
"You can find a lot of aspects which make today’s modern
improvised music so delightful - from open, freely associated
open soundscapes to dense passages with the aforementioned
distant echoes of free jazz. Der Dritte Stand is varied and
exciting in the best sense and therefore highly recommended."
Martin Schray, Freejazzblog
"With a high degree of probability, here bordering on almost
certainty, we can state at the outset of today's story that the
state of creativity into which the musicians worked during the
recording deserves to be called extraordinary, just like the
recording itself."
Trybuna
Muzyki Spontanicznej
"Inständig werkt das neu formierte Berliner Trio kollektiv an
einem Teppich mit etlichen Ausfransungen in Richtung kraftvollem
Freejazz, subtiler Soundforschung und diverser Mischkulanzen.
Sowohl von Beginn an als auch währenddessen als auch nach dem
Finale schürt Der Dritte Stand das Verlangen nach einem
Livekonzerterlebnis."
Freistil
"Klappernd wird die Desktop- und Bildschirmblase aufgebrochen
mit 'proletarisch' lärmender Anarchie."
Bad Alchemy
"The music is located somewhere between free music, free jazz
and improvised music. There are subtle differences between the
three, maybe sometimes too subtle to make a difference. Here we
find three musicians jointly developing the musical lines."
Vital Weekly
Album Release Concerts
16.4.2022 Sassnitz, Grundtvighaus
12.-16.07.2022 Berlin, Autopsi Pohl
6.8.2022 Berlin, Jazz am Kaisersteg
Open Air
21.9.2022 Chemnitz, Neue Sächsische Galerie
7.10.2022 Darmstadt, Jazzinstitut
8.10.2022 Bielefeld, Bunker Ulmenwall
9.10.2022 Landsatz/Wendland, Scheune
12.11.2022 Münster, CUBA Blackbox
31.03.2023 Taubenbach/Reut, Zoglau3
1.04.2023 Schorndorf, Manufaktur
Links
"Umstand" on Soundcloud
Press Photo Downloads from Dropbox
Matthias Müller matthiasmueller.net
Matthias Bauer bauerbass.de