Wouter Jaspers

Klaus Janek / Wouter Jaspers

Wouter Jaspers / Klaus Janek – Schön (excerpt) by Wouter Jaspers

Arriving from two different starting points the musical and artistic development brought the two musicians to an equal definition of what they consider to be good music: soundscapes which create space to imagination and emotional stimulation without denying the obligation of readability. The two communicate live in their individually developed musical language in order to achieve the highest possible density of musical expression and atmosphere. In the end of December 2010 both Janek and Jaspers came together in their homebase Berlin to record an album, which will be released in the beginning of 2011. The duo will be on their first European tour in May 2011.

Klaus Janek, born 1969, in Bolzano Italy, studied classical doublebass with M. Muraro, Venice, workshops with D.Holland, P.Kowald. L.Butch Morris. Explores avantgarde music and works on sound research on the doublebass. Gets involved in the improvised music scene and lots of traditional and electronic music, published CD (FMP, edel classics, Minor Music, Solponticello, Ubiquity and others), in between three solo doublebass CDs. Composes music for cinema, theatre and dancetheatre. Art direction of various concertseries in Italy and Germany. Concert and festival appearances in EU, USA, Israel and Russia. Since 2008 he freelances for Meta Design in conception and production.

Collaboration with musicians such us Toshinori Kondo, Willi Kellers, Christoph Irmer, Agusti Fernandez, Marco Cristofolini, Johannes and Conny Bauer, Paul Brody, Borah Bergmann, Joe and Mat Maneri, Wolfgang Fuchs, Torsten Sense, Günther Pitscheider, Martin Blume, Thomas Borgmann, Gary Lucas, Heiner Reinhardt, Ariel Shibolet, Michael Zerang, Clayton Thomas, Sebastian Hilken, Anat Cohavi, Michael Griener, Roger Turner, Günther Baby Sommer, Harold Rubin and others.