Das Kapital + Erdmann-Sooäär Dessert Time
A German saxophonist, a Danish guitarist and a French percussionist form the band Das
Kapital. After all, financial capital now moves freely across all borders in a globalized world, so why shouldn’t music? Since its first steps in 2002, the trio has made a name for itself in the jazz scene. It`s sound elegantly blends acoustic and electronic, improvised and composed elements.
They produced their two first albums - Das Kapital & sons in 2005 et All gods have children in 2006 and created two shows with the swiss! lmmakers Nicolas Humbert and Martin Otter
(Wonderland in 2006 and Lenin on tour in 2008).
Their last project dedicated to german composer Hanns Eilser - with two albums : Ballads & Barricades in 2009 and Conflicts & Conclusions in 2011 - obtained fantastic and deserved echoes from press & specialized medias, allowing Das Kapital to perform in all major jazz places in Europe & beyond.
Daniel Erdmann (Tenor saxophone)
Born in 1973 in Wolfsburg, Germany, Daniel Erdmann began to play the saxophone when he was ten years old and studied from 1994 to 1999 at the National Music School Hanns Eisler in Berlin, with teachers like Gebhard Ullmann, Jiggs Whigham, Aki Takase...
He founded his own band Erdmann 2000 in 1999, with Frank Möbus (guitar), Johannes Fink
(bass) and John Schröder (drums), three famous musicians of the german jazz scene. This
band, now called Erdmann 3000, published its third CD, «Supermivrogravity» in 2007 (Enja
Records), noticed- by all european jazz critics. Its third CD, a live in Berlin will be out on october 2010 (Quark Records).
Daniel Erdmann also created Das Kapital with guitarist Hasse Poulsen & drummer Edward
Perraud in 2002. They produced two first Cds and created two shows with swiss filmmakers Nicolas Humbert and Martin Otter (Wonderland in 2006 and Lenin on tour in 2008). Their last CD dedicated to german composer Hanns Eisler was a real success with great echoes in jazz medias, allowing the trio to play a lot of concerts, in all major jazz places, in Europe & beyond. In 2007, Daniel Erdmann joined the band of Finnish saxophone player Miko Innanen, Innkvisitio, and he recently participated to its last CD wich will be out on october 2010.
Hasse Poulsen (guitar)
Born in Denmark in 1965, Hasse Poulsen grew up in Copenhagen and began to play music
with a violin, but without enthusiasm. At thirteen, he choose the guitar and started to study
flamenco with Christian Sievert and songs with Tom Baily. In high school, Karsten Houmark taught him the jazz theory.
After a year in United States, he came back in Denmark and went to Jazz, Rock & Folk Academy, where he study improvised rhythmic music, that he still plays now. Among his teachers, there were Ed Thigpen, Horace Parlan and NHOP, but the first musician who has really influenced him is his uncle, a guitarist too, who offers him albums of Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Amstrong, Fats Waller et Big Bill Bronzy. At the same time, Hasse saw all the great musicians who came to play in Copenhagen (Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Dizzy Gillepsie...) and listened to each danish production of Jaspers Thilo, NHOP, Jesper Lundgaard, and many others. Concerning composition, Hasse was strongly influenced by contemporary music, composersas Ligeti, Stockhausen, Nørgaard, Xenakis and found inspiration in the ideas of John Cage and Fluxus. For a decade, he tried to create a language based on this and his ressearch drove him into improvised music where musicians like Derek Bailey, Keith Rowe, John Butcher or Joëlle Léandre created a space for innovative and creatve music.
These days Hasse Poulsen tries to blend atonal music with jazz and rock to make it more
approachable. His work is mostly inspired by Louis Sclavis with whom he played for five years, especialy with Napoli’s Walls quartet. Hasse Poulsens led since 1991 the Sound of choice trio and since 2008 The Progressive Patriots quintet. He plays with Speeq quartet, Roy / Poulsen / Chevillon trio, Marc Ducret for a duo, and of course Das Kapital. He plays also in Hélène Labarrière’s Quartet.
Edward Perraud (drums)
Edward Perraud starts to play guitar at eight years old and then learns trombone and classical percussion in Rennes. After a Master in Music, he studies with Hugues Dufour at the IRCAM and works on the music analysis of Tristan Murail. He integrates the National Music Academy, studying with Michael Levinas and obtain a first prize in analysis two years later. He is currently working on his doctorate with Jean-Marc Chouvet. Classical and contemporary music, jazz, indian music that he works with Biplab Battacharia in Calcutta, and free improvisation deeply influence him. Edward plays with modern jazz musicians (Yves Robert, Sylvain Kassap, Joe Rosenberg...), free improvisors (duo Calx avec Jean-Luc Guionnet, Hubbub...), in contemporary music (as a composer) or alternativ rock (Tempsion, BIG with Frederick Galiay).
Edward created Quark-Records, his own label in 2005. He appears in around fourty albums
for many different labels around the world. These past ten years, he played with Paul Rogers, Dan Warburton, John Butcher, John Edwards, Johannes Bauer, Bernard Lubat, Michel Portal, Vincent Courtois, Daunik Lazro, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Didier Petit, Camel Zekri, Lucias Recio, Olivier Benoit, Peter Scherr, Marc Helias, Itaru Oki.
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