Nik Bartsch Duo

Revealed by the indispensable ECM label, Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch is one of the most unique personalities to emerge on the jazz scene in the past ten years. One of his early records was called "Ritual Groove Music", and when you step into Nik Bärtsch's music, that is indeed the impression you get of it. That of being caught, as a spectator, in an enigmatic rite carried by the repetition of rhythmic cycles and the bewitching trance phenomenon associated with it. Inspired by Zen, the Swiss pianist, at the head of a group that plays like one man, in a perfectly mastered kaleidoscopic gesture, develops weightless music with subtle minimalism and hypnotic effects, whose name, "Mobile “Sums up the power of fascination. Between the precision of the Swiss watchmaker and the detachment of the Zen master, the music of Nik Bärtsch, heir to Steve Reich and James Brown, excels in transmitting, according to its author, "an energy that is both intense and calm". A rare sound experience!