NIK BÄRTSCH (CH)

Nik Bärtsch – piano

zen-funk / ritual groove

”My thinking and music are based on the tradition of urban space. They are not distilled from a national or stylistic tradition but from the universal sound of cities. The city in its roaring diversity requires an ability to focus and concentrate on the essential: to measure one’s actions, to remain silent at the right place. This music draws its energy from the tension between compositional precision and the self-circumvention of improvisation. From self-implied restriction stems freedom. Ecstasy through asceticism.” (Nik Bärtsch)

”Few musicians have continued to hone a concept as singularly unique and instantly recognizable, irrespective of context, as that being explored by Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch.” (John Kelman – All About Jazz)

June 2nd / 6::30PM

info: 0788 452 485 / rezervlagreen@gmail.com.
Tickets: @ Green Hours & online: