Klaus Gesing

Stefan Strasser

Born: November, 1965

Born 1965, musician, improviser, composer and sound artist.
Largely self-taught, his music moves between the worlds of free improvisation, ambient, jazz and noise.
In addition to solo projects, he enjoys working with other musicians from Germany and abroad, both in the form of internet sessions and live performances. These collaborations have broadened his artistic horizons and given him the opportunity to explore and create new musical paths.

His versatility is documented in various recordings on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
Numerous live performances including Loft/Cologne, Kölner Musiknacht, Kulturtag Oberscheid, Oooh!Fest/Amsterdam, ImprovFreedom Nonet & Dance/Salzburg, ImproHazard Festival/Peritz, 35blumen/Krefeld, 24h Improv Marathon Werkplaats Walter/Brussels.

Peter Lutek

Peter Lutek is a gentle human, living with his wife on a small, garden-filled plot of land amidst the bustle of urban life in Toronto, Canada. He makes sound with reed instruments, electronics, and the occasional power tool; his sourdough is relatively quiet. Peter has been active in a wide range of musical performing for nearly half a century; in the end, he is most at home in improvised contexts. Currently, Peter is playing with the Avi Granite 6, and Ben Caplan, while developing his own in-studio projects. His unique voice is also expressed in beginning-to-end production roles for ENGINE (Peter Lutek), 40 fingers (saxophone quartet), Riverrun (Tom Richards), Storytime (Rob Mosher), Joseph Petric, and David Mott.
 

Hans Tammen

Born: 1957

Hans Tammen is a Brooklyn-based guitarist whose rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating sounds capture the energy and abstract musicality that his original influences, Sonny Sharrock and Pete Cosey, brought to music. Signal To Noise called his works "...a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage", his playing has been described as “transforming a sequence of instrumental gestures into a wide territory of semi-hostile discontinuity; percussive, droning, intricately colorful, or simply blowing your socks off”, with his "...fingers stuck in a high voltage outlet" (Touching Extremes). 

John Baylies

Born: 1992

John Baylies is an American tubist known for his experiments in electroacoustic improvisation. A native of North Andover, Massachusetts, John currently lives in New York City, where he leads his improvised dubstep band Sousastep, co-leads the free-jazz ensemble Sunnyside Electric, and performs in a wide variety of groups such as the Dingonek Street Band (Afrobeat, Ethio-jazz, Balkan), and NOTUS (NOLA, jazz-funk).

Sofia Borges

Sofia Borges is a percussionist, composer and improviser who has gained prominence through a wide range of international projects. As a solo performer, and in collaboration with the most diverse international artists in the fields of contemporary music, improvised music, free jazz and world music, she has performed in a variety of international festivals in Europe, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand, Macau and Taiwan. For her compositions and performances, she brings together traditional and custom-made instruments and electronics configurations. As an improviser, Borges is active in the Berlin scene and has toured throughout Europe for solo performances and collaborations with the most prominent musicians in the field, receiving critical praise for her performances

Gaya Feldheim Schorr

Born: October 6, 1993

Gaya Feldheim Schorr is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and photographer originally from Tel Aviv - Jaffa and currently based in Marseille, France, after spending almost a decade in New York City. 'I Have Considered The Lilies' is Gaya��s vibrant re-imagination of the music of Connie Converse, an enigmatic singer-songwriter who left behind a staggering archive of music and texts after her disappearance in 1974. Alongside a group of cult-favorite Brooklynite collaborators including Grey Mcmurray (guitar), Tal Yahalom (guitar), and Eva Lawitts (bass), Gaya invites the listener into the intimate world of Converse��s songs, poems, and ontological wrestlings with equal doses of warmth and melancholy

Lee Barbour

Born: January 19, 1977

Lee Barbour is a musician from Charleston, SC. As a guitarist, he has performed/recorded with several international artists, including guitar legend Joe Beck (Miles Davis), Fred Wesley (James Brown), Earl Klugh, Chris Bullock and Justin Stanton (Snarky Puppy), Cody Wright (Joe Bonamassa, Peter Erskine), John Blackwell (Prince, D’Angelo) Quentin Baxter (Ranky Tanky, Rene Marie) Jeff Sipe, Kebbi Williams (Tedeschi Trucks Band), Elise Testone (American Idol), Ellis Hall, and Cary Ann Hearst (Shovels and Rope). He has been reviewed in Jazz Times and had appearances in Spin Magazine and the New York Times.

As a composer, he has written music for trailers, documentaries, animation, commercials and feature film

Al Swainger

Born: June 5, 1972

Al Swainger is a musician who happens to be a bassist. He is also a composer, improviser and FX enthusiast. His eclectic tastes have led to making music in a wide variety of genres over the years with literally hundreds of musicians. Covering ground from pop to progressive rock , traditional to modern jazz and fully improvised soundsculpture. Al is always keen to explore new musical territory. Currently he is focusing his unique style on his own experimental composition project Pointless Beauty. An album (After & Before) is due for release later this year featuring Neil Yates, Mike Outram, George & Mark Whitlam. Other current projects include recordings with omnifusion trio Snow Giants �C UN (Mike Outram, 05Ric), the Art Trip �C The Music of Art Pepper (Alan Barnes, Craig Milverton, Nick Millward) and art-rock band GRICE �C Alexandrine (featuring Grice, 05Ric, Luca Calabrese, Richard Barbieri, Steve Jansen, Hossam Ramzy, Steve Bingham, B.J.Cole)

About Aphrodite

ABOUT APHRODITE comprises Gilda Razani on Theremin / soprano saxophone / The Pipe (a voice / breath / mouth-controlled dynamic FX processor and synthesizer from SOMA) / live electronics, Hans Wanning on piano / synthesizers / live electronics, and features Jaime Moraga Vasques on drums / percussion / vocals. Their music is a progressive crossover between jazz improvisation, classical and electronic music. After their debut album Polaris was well received in September 2018, ABOUT APHRODITE is releasing their sophomore album Future Memories in October 2020. The record is a reflection on the crises of planet Earth as a whole; the climate, and a questioning of the future. A truly multicultural group, whilst based in eastern Germany, Razani is part Persian and Moraga Vasques is half Chilean half Spanish