FLUX
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Accordionist Florian Stadler and saxophonist, clarinettist and composer Christina Fuchs have been a musical couple like no other for many years. They move with ease and great intensity through the unique world of their compositions and seem to know no technical boundaries. Anything Fuchs and Stadler embark on is a musical dialog: they can play fast and loud. They can groove, but far more important to them is the sound, blending sonic structures, filigree soundscapes or free, sometimes wild, always intensely interrelated improvisation, with breathtaking turns from complete fusion to total individuality. Their exciting playing is effortless, intimate, fun and humorous.
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Roots & Rhyzomes is the title of their latest album, which was released in April 2024 by JazzHausMusik Köln in co-production with Deutschlandfunk. There is more to it than just a title, it is also a concept: both musicians have their roots, which they refer to when playing and improvising.
The term rhizome, however, does not mean root, but underground branches, interweavings, cross-connections, growths. A rhizome stands for an underground access of two systems or individuals to each other, a starting point for creative, freely improvised structures.
