Debut album ORIGINALS
[uan] Duo
As a listener, one experiences a quite remarkable large-scale sound emanating from just two saxophones. The musicians involved are perceived to be very different in their personalities, yet their blend of musical ideas proves to be compelling.
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All the music featured is new and commissioned by the [uan] duo: Raivis Misjuns, José Mora-Jimenéz, Eduardo Cardinho, Camila Salomé Menino, Eveline Vervliet, and José Soares collectively challenge the limits of the two-saxophone setup. They explore elements ranging from grinding dissonances, singing saxophone players, groovy sections to dreamy and straightforward sounding electronics.
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The debut album, titled ORIGINALS, is now available on more than 40 platforms, including Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music, Qobuz, and all other platforms.
Debut album
Die Fremde
Hannah Koob is a young Dutch-German top saxophonist who dedicates herself with immense energy to play unexplored repertoire for saxophone.
Die Fremde is a musical expedition along music that has a gloomy but evermore cheerful timbre. Virtuoso solo playing in the rarely performed The Stranger by the Dutchman Hans Kox, this is only the 2nd studio recording of the piece, in which Koob shows the extreme limits of the melodic and dynamic range of her alto saxophone. Lyricism and fluent interplay between piano and saxophone in the Partita by Erwin Dressel and compelling harmonies and ditto melody in Henk Badings’ La Malinconia.
Two commissioned compositions complete this energetic and infectious debut: the cinematic Andante by Leonard Küßner and Halvdager by Andreas van Zoelen, the latter in the beautiful, rarely heard combination of saxophone and harmonium.
“On Die Fremde the lovely Dutch-German saxophonist Hannah Koob plays rarely performed music by Hans Kox, Erwin Dressel and Henk Badings. Proudly featured are two commissioned pieces by Leonard Küßner and Andreas van Zoelen. It’s only the 2nd time that Kox’ forgotten but amazing composition ‘The Stranger’ has been recorded, so this album has quite a couple of hidden gems.
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While Hannah might by one of the most sunny and upbeat artists we’ve ever worked with, the program is surprisingly moody and gloomy. ‘This music never bores me’ she argues, and we think that her personal character and even more her devotion for new music and true craftsmanship on the saxophone brings beautiful contrasts on Die Fremde. Hannah is being accompanied by Martien Maas (on a resonant Steinway D) and Toon IJzerman (on harmonium!)”.