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Kreuzberg meets Starkenbuehel – the Tyrolean musicians couple Barbara Romen and Gunter Schneider have been working together for many years in different areas of contemporary music. In either, the composed and the improvised fields, they have proved to be sensitive partners with and of unheard sounds. The Berlin based clarinetist and multiphoner Kai Fagaschinski is fairly known as subtle researcher into sound with long breath.The trio met for the first time in Berlin, at Raumschiff Zitrone in 2006. After a

second, magic encounter at echoraum in Vienna it was clear, that there was a common future. Over the years they have played a dozen of concerts mainly in Austria and Berlin, among other at Music Unlimited (Wels) and Kaleidophon (Ulrichsberg). In 2008 they did a micro-tour with special guest Philip Jeck. In the same year - back in their initial trio formation - they came together at the Amann Studios in Vienna for the recordings of their debut album, which hopefully spines now in your CD player.

The three musicians sound the mergening options of their actually really different instruments. In constant togetherness, they weave homogenous harmonic fields and structures. Their secret lore of the commonly conceiled abysses of their instruments allows them to find beauty in the fragile. The soft sounds count. The necessary traps they set themselves with a fine sense of the absurd. A filigrane, psychedelic chamber music. Here comes the sun.

01 Who’s There? [12:31]02 Feelings Without End [14:02]03 Dazed And Diffused [5:48]04 The Last Words [6:06]05 At The End Of The Tunnel There Is Always A Lie [10:04]06 Plainchant And Goodbye [11:26]

Here Comes The SunBarbara Romen hammered dulcimerKai Fagaschinski clarinetGunter Schneider guitars

All music by B. Romen [AKM], K. Fagaschinski [AKM], and G. Schneider [AKM]

Recorded by Christoph Amann at Amann Studios, Vienna, May 31st, 2008

Mixed and mastered by Christoph Amann with Schneider and Fagaschinski on October 31st, 2011

Cover design: Kurt LiewartPhoto: Kai Fagaschinski

Produced by Kurt Liedwart

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THOuGHTSFrom all things that fascinate me about this trio, the first is the unspoken selfunderstoodness about what we do and how we do it.

It is a music without melody, yet full of motion, without chord progressions, yet full of harmonies without rhythm, yet full of drive and groove, without hierarchic structures and functions, yet complex, loose and concentrated.

The first impression of our music might – or should I say will - be slow, down tempo. But this just opens, like the view through a microscope, to a sonic world rich of changes, motions, and synaptic relations.Gunter Schneider

KAI FAGASCHInSKIclarinetist | composer/performer | nightwatch*1974 in Dannenberg (Germany)

Fagaschinski focuses on a subtle musicality of sound and noise phenomena. As an autodidact he developed a personal language on his instrument based on an delicate use of multiphonics. His music is rooted in abstraction including an insidious expressivity and a pre-melodic quality. Kai does both - improvising and composing. He prefers to work in long-term collaborations. He is currently most involved with the following projects: The International Nothing (clarinet duo

with Michael Thieke), The Magic I.D. (song project with Margareth Kammerer, Christof Kurzmann and Thieke), Los Glissandinos (with sine wavist Klaus Filip), Musik (with Burkhard Stangl), The Dogmatics (with Chris Abrahams), Berlin's 24-piece Splitter Orchester, and last but not least Here Comes The Sun.He played concerts all over Europe, North America and Asia and released twelve albums as a co-leader.

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BARBARA ROmEn unD GunTER SCHnEIDERstarted their professional collaboration in 1990, from that year on they have been married, too. Contemporary music has been the central aim of their work from the beginning. Excursions led to baroque sonatas for salterio (Hackbrett, beaten dulcimer) and basso continuo. Aside of main repertoire works for guitar duo (Lachenmann, Kubo, but as well Brouwer and Gnattali) a lot of works were specially composed for them, by

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composers as Klaus Ager, Gerold Amann, Martin Daske, Fernando Grillo, Radu Malfatti, and Burkhard Stangl. Besides, they have been developing music of their own, both for „dulcimer à due“ (performed on one traditional Tyrolean diatonic dulcimer), and for chromatic tenor-dulcimer and various guitars. The CD "Traditional Alpine Music from the 22nd Century" was released in 2007.Together they worked in different projects, besides „here comes the sun“ with Berlin based clarinet multiphoner Kai Fagaschinsky, music for dance (e.g. with Japanese choreographer and dancer Saburo Teshigawara), music for radio plays, various improvisation groups, among others harsch with Burkhard Stangl and Christof Kurzman, together with Japanese musicians Taku Sugimoto, Tetuzi Akiyama, and Taku Unami, a project with stone sculptures by Tyrolean sculptor Kassian Erhart, named „tracking stones’ voices“ (ORF-SACD), and „klopfzeichen/klangschnitte“ with Japanese and

Austrian printmakers and musicians. They are probably best known for their interpretation of Lachenmann’s „Salut fuer Caudwell“, which they as well have been touring in a music theatre project conceived by coreographer Xavier Le Roy since 2005 („Mouvements for Lachenmann“ and „More Mouvements for Lachenmann“).

discography (selected)— Disordered Systems (together with Barbara Romen) Durian 018-2, Lachenmann, Salut für Caudwell, Romen-Schneider, Disordered Systems for 13 guitar instruments.www.durian.at/disorderedsystems.html (2002)

— tyromanie 2003, music for 9 Tyrolean musicians, durian 024-2www.durian.at/tyromanie.html

— Tracking stones’ voices (stimmen der steine

erspüren) music for stone objects by Kassian Erhart, with Barbara Romen, Hans-Peter Achberger, Franz Hautzinger and Stefan Mathoi.ORF-SACD 459, 2006.

—Traditional Alpine Music from the 22nd Century, Extraplatte ex 840-2.(Pasticcio-Preis of the ORF, The Austrian Radio and Television Company, Radio Oe1)

— In 2008, H.C. Artmanns book with Japanese haiku poems, Nachtwindsucher, was published including wood prints by Austrian artist Michael Schneider and a cd with music by Romen/Schneider, called „harumi 1725“ (edition ps, www.editionps.at)

— Quadrat:sch stubenmusic, col legno WWE 2CD 20305 together with Alexandra and Christof Dienz, featuring Zeena Parkins and Herbert Pirker