Stefan Keune

German saxophonist Stefan Keune initial got noticed over the free of charge improvisation scene within the 1990s along with his trio and his duo with John Russell. His selection of the sopranino saxophone as primary instrument provides him an unusual audio, which he pairs using a textural strategy similar to John Butcher. He provides performed numerous improvisers in the German and United kingdom scenes, specifically Matthias Bauer, Hans Schneider, Paul Lovens, and Paul Lytton. Keune was created in 1965 in Oberhausen (where he continued to be structured). Until age group 17, he previously no particular curiosity about music. In 1982, after witnessing Peter Brötzmann doing his thing, he chose there and to get a tenor saxophone. He examined traditional technique with personal teachers initially and shifted from there, keeping free of charge improvisation at heart. He played for quite a while within a trio with Martin Blume, but his open public career really began around 1987, when he turned towards the sopranino. Producing contacts with set up music artists in 1990, he finished up within a quartet with Dietmar Diesner, Bauer, and Lytton. Another year he produced his initial group, the Stefan Keune Trio, with bassist Schneider and drummer Lovens, which documented the Compact disc Loft (1992, Cross types). In 1993, Keune asked John Russell to become listed on the group re-christened Avoid Artwork. The quartet produced just a few looks, however the saxophonist as well as the English guitarist developed a particular musical romantic relationship. When Russell and drummer Roger Turner went to Oberhausen throughout a tour of Germany, they asked Keune to become listed on them. Since 1997, he and Russell perform few concerts yearly like a duo, ultimately liberating Excerpts & Offerings on Acta in January 2001. This association continues to be long-lasting and is mainly in charge of Keune’s first worldwide publicity. The duo went to Japan in Apr 2001 (a monitor like a quartet with Brett Larner and Masahiko Okura shows up within the compilation Deluxe Improvisation Series, Vol. 2 2001 Component 1). In 2000, Keune started playing the alto saxophone together with his sopranino. He founded the Outfit Echtzeit, which also comprises Schneider, Lytton, Thomas Lehn, Gunda Gottschalk, Melvyn Poore, Marc Charig, Erhard Hirt, Ute Voelker, and Philippe Micol.