Gstättner*Heckel*Sahmaoui - Lava

For their debut album Lava, bassoonist Maria Brigitte Gstättner and jazz pianist and composer Stefan Heckel founded together with the well-known percussionist and singer from Joe Zawinuls Syndicate, Aziz Sahmaoui, a sensitive and visionary ensemble. The trios improvisation and compositions derive from the melodic richness of Styrian folk-songs and North African music. Thus emerges a completely new world of sounds through the special consonance of their specific, colourful instruments and the interaction between the peaks of the Alps and the Atlas. Just like the unpredictable flow of a river of lava, the ensembles musical pieces roll down their own path.