In April this year, Amalgam Music released “horizontal shift,” our CD recorded live in performance with Carol Genetti and Birgit Ulher. I am pleased to share that in June, Salt Peanuts, the European online jazz magazine reviewed it quite favorably. Thanks very much to Eyal Hareuveni, the reviewer for helping us get the word out!

German, Hamburg-based trumpeter Birgit Ulher shares a similar sonic vision of Henkel, and like him, she focuses on expanding the sonic possibilities of the trumpet with extended techniques and preparations that allow her to produce multiphonics and a grainy, textured sound, whether holding objects in front of the horn’s bell or feeding radio noise into trumpet mutes. horizontal shift presents Ulher in a trio with American, Chicago-based vocal artist Carol Genetti and sound artist Eric Leonardson (playing here a self-built, bowed springboard, objects and electronics), recorded live in February 2018 at Elastic Arts in Chicago. Ulher, Genetti and Leonardson have known each other since the late 1990s, but this was the first performance and recording as a trio.

These experienced improvisers brought their highly personal and distinct sonic palette to this intriguing electroacoustic meeting, all characterized by microtonal and textural characteristics of sound. Ulher extended the sonic palette of the trumpet with soft breaths, grainy clicks and multiphonics that matched Genetti’s abstract, wordless vocals with Leonardson’s atmospheric, resonating sounds. With every listening to the three subtle and vulnerable textures, you may explore more nuances in the sound-oriented dynamics of this trio, including delicate microtones and mysterious multiphonics.