Hans Koch, Paed Conca and Kawol SamarQandi - solo, duo, trio improv at CAFE ETHICA

Hans Koch / saxophone, clarinet
Paed Conca / clarinet
Kawol SamarQandi / guitar, voice

Switzerland, Lebanon, and stateless.
A wave of beautiful improvised sounds that connects to the present state of the world. Resonating evening.



biography

Hans Koch:
Hans Koch has quit his carreer as a recognised classical clarinetist to become one of the most innovative improvising reed-players in Europe. He has been working with everyone from Cecil Taylor to Fred Frith since the eighties. As a composer he has shaped the sound of Koch-Schütz-Studer since the beginning as well as working for radio-plays and film. Since the nineties he has been working with electronics as an extension of the saxes/clarinets as well as with sampling/sequencing/Laptop. As a reed-player he is always working on his very own vocabulary and sound, which makes him a very unique voice on the actual scene.
Awards:
– 1985 Award as the best soloist at the Lugano-Jazzfestival
– 1986 Award of the “Kulturpreis from the city of Biel”
– 1987 Six month-stay in New York from the Kanton of Bern
– 1991and 1996 Contributions from the Kuratorium Aargau
– 1995 Three month-stay from the city of Biel in Kairo
– 1998 Composition Comission from Pro Helvetia
– 2000 Six month stay in London (Kuratorium Aargau)
– 2002 Award for Filmmusic from the Canton Berne (CH)
– 2002 Composed the music for Swisscom film “Empire of Silence”
– 2003 Received the Berner Musicprize
– 2008 Six Month Stay in Varanasi (India)
– 2020 Swiss Musicprice (schweizer Musikpreis) – Interview Rudolf Amstutz
https://www.hansko.ch/


Paed Conca:
since 1989 he works as a musician, composer and improviser
plays clarinet and bass
he writes Music for theater, film, dance, small ensembles and plays in a lot of different projects
-composed and performed from 1989 on with groups like Lougaroo, So Nicht, Otolithen, THAU,
TSUKI, BLAST, Best Before, City of Salt, Under the Carpet, GAMRA, Conca Högberg Bergman Sartorius Quartet the Quartet with Axel Dörner, John Edwards and Fabrizio Spera, PORTA CHIUSA, PRAED, The Mad Laboratory of Anti-Mattar and in many more...
-composed and performed from 1998 till 2010 with BLAST-4tet/sextet/oktet/ensemble with
Dirk Bruinsma(NL), Frank Crijns(NL) und Fabrizio Spera(I)
-1998 composed with Bruno Meillier(F) the music for the play „kein Monument
für Gudrun Ensslin“in Saint Etienne(F)
-1997 to 2003 music for 3 silent movies: Der Mann mit der Kamera from Oziga Vertov,
Nosferatu from F.W. Murnau, die Mutter from Vsevolod Pudovkin
-2003 he composed with Margrit Rieben the music for the„Übermut“ Performance from
the ÖFF-ÖFF theater in Bern(CH)
-2004 he composed „MIGRATON“
-2006 he composed the music for the play„Selbstbezichtigung“ from Peter Handke
-2008 he composed the music for the play „Aufzeichnungen aus einem Irrenhaus“ from Christine Lavant
-2009 to 2010 he composed PORTA CHIUSA for 3 clarinets(55 min)
-2009 he composed the music for the dance performance One (idea) happening live
-2010 to 2013 he composed a new composition for PORTA CHIUSA(part two) for 3 clarinets and voice(53 min)
-2014 he composed a new composition for PORTA CHIUSA(part three) for 3 clarinets and voice(40 min)
-2014 he composed the music for the play "collecting home" with Yara Bou Nassar
-2015 he composed a new composition for PORTA CHIUSA(part four) for 3 clarinets(46 min)-2017 he composed the music for the play "everything is just fine" with Yara Bou Nassar and AnnaLena Fröhlich
-2018 Music Prize from the canton of Bern 2018
-2021 he composed the music for the play tomorrow is the best day of my life from Yara Bou Nassar

 He did projects with Bart Maris(B), Ottomo Yoshide(JAP), (J)Noeel Akchote(F), Matt Wand(GB), Jason Kahn(US), Koji Asano(JAP), Bruno Meillier,(F) Jim Meneses(US), Stephan Wittwer(CH), Steve Buchanan(US), Dorothea Schürch(CH), Kato Hideki(JAP), Werner Lüdi(CH), Michael Wertmüller(CH), Kido Natsuki(JAP), Masashi Kitamura(JAP), Katsui Yuji(JAP), Margrit Rieben(CH), Saadet Tuerkoez(CH), Yoko Miura(JAP), Hans Koch(CH), Martin Schütz(CH), John Edwards(GB), Sabina Meyer(I), Michael Zernag(US), Christine Sehnaoui(F), Mazen Kerbaj(LEB), Raed Yassin(LEB), Sharif Sehnaoui(LEB), Takumi Seino(JAP), Tarek Atoui(F), Uriel Barthelemi(F), Marcos Fernandes(JAP), Maki Hachiya(JAP), Kaido Yutaka(JAP), Usui Yasuhiro(JAP), Keiko Higuchi(JAP) Shayne Bowden(AUS), Mori-Shige(JAP), Adachi Tomomi(JAP), Yara Bou Nassar, AnnaLena Froelich and many more.........
http://www.paed.ch/

Kawol SamarQandi:
he was born in the port town on October 7.
as a child, the first music he listened to was the noise of
shortwave radio and hymns.
he began writing poetry at the age of 6.
he began to playing guitar and singing at the age of 12.
he began composing at the age of 14.
he joined the fringe of the Tokyo new wave music scene
at the age of 17. then he has performed as
a odd singer-songwriter in a variety of venues.
mid-20s, he wandered about
North Africa (Tunisia) and the Mediterranean region
and studied Arabic traditional music under Mr. Ali Sriti.
After performing theater solo concert, festivals,
TV appearances, etc. there, returned to Japan,
he did a lot of commercial work (e.g. “City pop”) as
a guitarist, arranger, composer, lyric writer and vocalist
in recording studios, on the airwaves, and on tour.
in 1997, he launched his private label PLAKA for EARDRUM.
in the new century,
he began his lifework of creating non-nationality “poor” music
by improvising with only his faltering guitar and trembling voice.
and he collaborates with musicians across borders
(sometimes face to face, sometimes on the Internet)
to make works and to perform in various places.
in 2007, he formed REFUGEES with Mary Meacha Goldfish.
in August 2021, Ramble Records released vinyl record album
“silence, notes and structures 1”.
in April 2024, he was invited by the Sharjah Art Foundation
to perform solo and REFUGEES concerts and workshops in UAE.
same month, Ramble Records released CD album
“Noli me tangere”.
in October 2025, he and Meacha were visit to perform in Athens, Greece.
in December 2025, he will release a brand new vinyl record album called
“energeia” recorded in a historical place in Sharjah, UAE.
in July 2026,
he and Meacha are scheduled to perform in Wellington, New Zealand.

the will to keep listening attentively to the world through
the austerely and beautiful silences, notes and structures of improvisation.
https://kawolsamarqandi88059347.wordpress.com/


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