Double bass and accordion
The duo JASPAR LIBUDA + DANIEL MOHEIT paint sound pictures with the unusual combination of double bass and accordion. They create musical stories without words. The pictorial compositions on the current album such as "Century Miracle", "The Little and the Big Sister", "Diary of a Journey" are like musical chapters in a book with light, bright and dark, thoughtful themes. The double bass and accordion merge into a surprising dialog in which both musicians use their instruments in a new context. Jaspar Libuda makes the mighty string instrument sing. Plucked and bowed, from the lowest to the highest notes, he creates timbres reminiscent of cello, Arabic lute or electric guitar. In Daniel Moheit's playing, the accordion becomes a voice, a supporting bass, a bandoneon and a percussion instrument. Transparent, filigree threads of sound alternate with dense, orchestral passages. Free, pulsating motifs develop into rhythmic escapades. Vivid transitions, flowing lines and dramatic contrasts make the chamber music of Jaspar Libuda and Daniel Moheit an exciting form of sonorous stories. After Jaspar Libuda devoted himself in recent years primarily to his double bass solo project and international commissioned compositions for film and dance theater, the two musicians are currently working on their second album.
Jaspar Libuda plays on a five-string double bass with a high C-string that was specially built and customized for him in Germany. Daniel Moheit plays a chromatic button accordion built in Italy. The two musicians have been working together for more than twenty years.
"This music lives and breathes and develops a fascination and energy that touches and involves the listener, allowing them to become part of this sonorous landscape. Virtuoso music poetry with a remarkable sense of sound and space."
Elke Walter, Fränkische Landeszeitung
"Music of haunting beauty. Not a note too much, not a note too little. The Berlin bassist and composer Jaspar Libuda is one of the best in his profession."
Ulf Drechsel, kulturradio vom rbb
"Music that conjures up its own fantastic movies in our heads."
Marion Brasch, radioeins
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