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Contemporary German painter Albert Oehlen invited Steamboat Switzerland to create music for his solo exhibition Tramonto Spaventoso at the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles, 2021. Oehlen and the experimental Swiss ensemble had already collaborated in 2019-2020 at the Serpentine Galleries (London). The recorded compositions draw connections with Oehlen's own visual strategies in which he interprets and transforms John Graham's painting Tramonto Spaventoso (Terrifying Sunset) (1940 49). The music has been played throughout the day of the exhibition from June 10 to July 24, 2021. Steamboat Switzerland are: Dominik Blum (organ), Marino Pliakas (bass), and Lucas Niggli (drums) who define themselves as a "Hammond Avantcore trio". Their music, meanders between new music and improvised jazz with influences from hardcore, prog, and noise. Artwork by Albert Oehlen. Graphic design by Metaphor. Mixed and mastered by Martin Siewert (Vienna), March 2021.
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TROST 117CD
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Dominik Blum (Hammond C3 organ); Marino Pliakas (E-bass); Lucas Niggli (drums). The Swiss trio Steamboat Switzerland tackle the energetic and innovative border-crossings between hardcore and avant-garde and play compositions by Michael Wertmüller (drummer of Peter Brötzmann's Full Blast outfit) -- breath-taking, radical, exact. "The Hammond avant-core trio Steamboat Switzerland is a damn wild and absolutely virtuoso project. They have played many different festivals -- from Donaueschinger Musiktage and Moers to London's Meltdown Festival. The group combines elements from rock, metal and contemporary scores. The sounds exchange between dark power ambient and 'Boulez on the Rock.'" --Eckhart Liess; Mixed by Gareth Jones in January 2013.
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GROB 315CD
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"Over two years after Steamboat Switzerland hit the (post-) improv and (post-) noise scene with their Live CD, only now do the long awaited follow up CDs appear. If the debut CD presented a patchwork of improvisation, own and foreign compositions and rock pieces, Budapest and ac/dB [Hayden] are compact, integral and equally imploring monolithic works. And yet the two CDs couldn't be more different. Budapest is the result of a purely improvised concert they gave in Danube metropolis in the Fall of 1999. The noise and prog rock roots have been compressed so much that there are no more clichés nor more citations, only tension that bursts asunder. The CD was mixed and co-produced by Stephan Wittwer, who contributed the intro, a little gem about the state of being chopped up. The grunge track that the band played following their improvisation, as an encore, is also a composition from Wittwer. The liner notes to this CD were written by Dietmar Dath."
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