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"This group has been eleven years in the making. It is a chance for me to finally take up a musical position that is beyond jazz, improvised or classical styles, and realise a large part of my musical vision which has everything to do with sound, emotion, reduction, and precision.
Later in the year we will release our debut on Nonplace records which will feature Michel Ongaru, a Kenyan multi-instrumentalist and vocalist. However our live performances are still faithfully instrumental and blend the rhythmic signatures and microtonality of root70 with the subtle sound of the world of strings. I call this group more of a „music collective“ than a „band“ because although the core of us is formed in the sextet, I aim to involve several guest musicians in the upcoming projects."
- Hayden Chisholm
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PRESS TEXT for the release "Healing the Music":
THE EMBASSADORS is a music collective formed by HAYDEN CHISHOLM - reed player/producer. The Collective is the result of over twelve years of Chisholm's globetrotting, co-productions, collecting musical information and forging musical bonds. After years of world-wide music research, touring with groups like ROOT70, PLURAMON and BURNT FRIEDMAN/JACKI LIEBEZEIT, and creating the music for REBECCA HORN installations, Chisholm felt ready to begin tying it all together.
After the success of the ROOT70 album HEAPS DUB on nonplace which he co-produced with Friedman, Chisholm felt the urge to push ahead with his own songs and his own group:
"Music like this comes about through long friendship and has a long genesis. In our case, we have been playing together for over a decade in different formations. The musicians are from New Zealand, South Africa, Peru, Kenya, and Germany - more than enough reason to go forth as "THE EMBASSADORS." - Hayden Chisholm
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"Chisholm creates extremely melodic lines over a hovering rhythmic background, allowing plenty of space for the lines to breathe in which each articulation is precise and logical. Looking at his work with root70 and his cooperation with the artist Rebecca Horn, we can expect from the Embassadors, his latest project, a calm, refined kind of music making yet powerful in its message. All things trivial are avoided right from the outset, there are no musical journeys into nowhere. These are rare qualities, transcending all these disturbing musical elements that burden us so often in these times, accompanying the listener into very different spheres."
Tom Fuchs, Koelner Stadtanzeiger
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"Wogram plays with pinpoint accuracy and rapid-fire linear invention. Hayden Chisholm plays alto with a Cool-School lightness ...combine this with his uncanny ability to elicit shkuhachi-like tones and you have one of the most offbeat, personal saxophone styles I've heard in a while."
Nate Dorwood, Coda Magazine
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The collective is made up of:
- NILS WOGRAM, the leading trombone soloist of the European scene;
- MATT PENMAN, first-call bassist in the NYC and collaborator with John Scofield;
- JOCHEN RUECKERT, on drums, often imitated and sought after by figures like Pat Methany and Madeleine Peyroux;
- GARETH LUBBE, known as one of the prominent overtone singers in the world and principal violist in the Leipziger Gewandhaus;
- CLAUDIO BOHORQUEZ, cellist, one of the world´s top classical soloists with a unique faculty for improvising, and
- HAYDEN CHISHOLM on reeds and keys.
With these figures, Chisholm has brought together leading figures from across the genres, setting the foundations for what is a truly GLOBAL music collective of the highest order. |