BrÖtz no. 856 21/12 19:00
Quagmire-Amin Alavi + SOL SOL

Quagmire-Amin Alavi

Amin Alavi-performance
Karin Johansson-pi
Nina de Heney-bas
Henrik Wartel-tr

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Amin Alavi
Born in 1966 in Tehran, Iran, based in Basel, Switzerland, Amin Alavi is a Danish writer/performer. If you ask him, he would say that he is a storyteller who likes to experiment, improvise, interact with his audiences and confuse them. He likes to establish a parallel reality, where the viewers/readers can enter, be part of it and be entertained on a higher plan. In order to do so, he often works with meta-stories – stories about stories. Amin calls his performances for shows. According to him, a performance has to trigger all senses, from listening to feelings. The shows often use theatrical elements combined with music and text. According to him, it doesn’t really matter, if you understand the text or if you listen to the music or just look at the action on stage. At the end of the day, they are all interchangeable and you get a story that you are involved in making. The shows are 40% fixed and 60% improvised and the music spans from free improve to experimental pop. He has established a group of professional musicians, from jazz to classic to pop and rock, whom he often works with.

Quagmire
de Heney/Johansson/Wartel

Nina de Heney – bas
Karin Johansson – piano
Herik Wartel – trummor

Quagmire
This trio’s music is an open door into a sometimes swaying inner scenery,depicted in a mesh of shifting vibrations, a succession of sound-paths strewn as seeds . Layers of elaborate rythmical textures spread over an unpredictable spectrum , carpetting the walls of an imaginary acoustic
space that could be a room for yet unknown rituals. Intuitive real-time composition by three of the most acclaimed musicians on the Scandinavian contemporary music scene.
If human experience can sometimes be expressed in sound-thoughts, mantras, well here is an invitation to your inner mantra,your being as a sonic-form.

Their first album,Quagmire, released in September 2019 on Creative Sources has recieved superlative
reviews in the Swedish and international press.
”…At first, I didn’t notice the cymbals, but my dog reacted, so I listened again.Small electric impulses through the instrument and the body. This discloses something about the spatial expanse of the music, the ability to remain in one sound-space whilst also reaching to my planetary centrum….”

Thomas Millroth, Orkester Journalen 5/2019

https://deheneyjohanssonwartel.bandcamp.com/album/quagmire