Blaser Music

07/10/2024

I am crossing all my fingers!
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07/09/2023

Out today! 🍾🚀
stream https://samuelblasermusic.ffm.to/adefiantlife

🍾Today Bl**er Music is releasing "A defiant life", the second track from an upcoming album called "Book Nine". The band I co-lead with my long-time friend Michael Bates consists of Michael Blake Music on saxes, Russ Lossing on keys and Jeff Davis on drums. Have an👂
🎵 stream https://samuelblasermusic.ffm.to/adefiantlife
💿 download https://samuelblaser.bandcamp.com/track/a-defiant-life

06/09/2023

"Swiss trombone and drum duo play a keen-eared and considered set that marries free improvisation with swing"

https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2022/08/29/pierre-favre-samuel-blaser-same-place-another-time/

💿 purchase your copy: https://samuelblaser.bandcamp.com/album/same-place-another-time

9 track album

19/02/2021

🎶🎧💿 listen to "Lamento Della Ninfa" with and

purchase/stream: https://samuelblaser.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cornelia-street-caf Samuel Bl**er (trombone) Paul Motian (drums) Russ Lossing (piano) Eivind Opsvik (bass) Produced by Samuel Bla

06/02/2021

Audio Rebel with receives the "Coup de Coeur" award from the Charles Cros Academy 2020. Thank you so much!

Coup de cœur 💖 Académie Charles Cros 2020 for Audio Rebel with released under thank you 🙏

🎧💿 purchase/stream Audio Rebel: https://bit.ly/3cMVlOV

"Pour inaugurer une série de nouveaux albums, le tromboniste Samuel Bl**er publie un enregistrement issu de sa tournée brésilienne en duo avec le guitariste Marc Ducret voici près de 7 ans. Les deux musiciens avaient alors déjà plusieurs années de collaboration, dont des traces sur CD. Avec ce duo, enregistré dans un studio (le bien nommé Audio Rebel....) qui est aussi un lieu de concert, c’est le triomphe du premier jet, comme un manifeste inscrit sur le fil du rasoir.... Dès la première plage, la musique sort des limbes pour se déployer dans un échange torride, où la vive intelligence musicale et le goût du risque sont en constant dialogue. Difficile de dire où s’établit la frontière entre l’écrit et l’improvisé (d’ailleurs, y a-t-il une frontière ? En est-il besoin ?). C’est dans ce genre de circonstance que le chroniqueur prend (reprend) conscience du fait qu’il est difficile de rendre compte, par la tentative (forcément vouée à l’échec) de décrire tout ou partie de la musique, ou de son déroulement, de ses accidents magnifiques, de ses saillies et de ses plages faussement apaisées. Bref étonné, conquis, émerveillé et transporté je fus, et demeure, à l’écoute de cette aventure sonore : indubitablement une Œuvre à part entière." Xavier Prévost

05/02/2021

you know what to do 😀

https://samuelblaser.bandcamp.com/

Samuel Bl**er (20 July 1981 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland) is a Swiss trombonist and composer.

26/01/2021

Samuel Bl**er 18 monologues élastiques

released August 14th 2020

P and © 2020 Samuel Bl**er
Bl**er Music LC-95556

available here https://lnk.to/18monologueselastiqueszO
Enjoy the full experience https://www.18monologueselastiques.com

"18 monologues élastiques was recorded by Martin Ruch at the Funkhaus on Nalepastrasse in Berlin. Located in an industrial area of the capital, the mysterious, colossal structure from the DDR era looks more like an abandoned cold-war nuclear facility than a working radio station. Here time seems to have stopped back before the Wall came down. Martin Ruch and I were looking for unique recording environments to create the 18 monologues élastiques. While working on the album we came up with the idea of adding a third dimension to the music by including motion. Instead of recording the trombone in a traditional manner, that is, in a single studio and in a static way, we decided to capture the sound while moving throughout the complex. The result is outstanding and adds a cinematographic aspect to the music. To illustrate and describe the eighteen pieces, Joanna Rusinek created paintings and collages for which I wrote descriptive poems."

22/01/2021

BM006 Samuel Bl**er, Marc Ducret, Masa Kamaguchi & Gerry Hemingway: Moods

released December 4 2020

P and © 2020 Samuel Bl**er
Bl**er Music LC-95556

available at bandcamp exclusively
https://samuelblaser.bandcamp.com/album/moods

"In October 2020, the restrictions on assembly relaxed enough to for Bl**er to venture an eight-date tour of Germany, Poland, and Switzerland. Lossing was unable to join the otherwise European-based band, so one of Bl**er’s most enduring collaborators, French guitarist Marc Ducret, stepped in. Although he and Bl**er hadn’t worked together in a quartet setting since 2013, the chemistry they have distilled in duo, trio, and other combos sharpens the attack of this one. If Bl**er’s approach to “Early In The Mornin’” expresses first effort and then defiance, Ducret’s solo, which builds from a bli zard of notes to a cloud of fuzz and then resolves with some unceremoniously chopped chords, simply blows weariness away. The blues aren’t only about melancholy and world-weariness, they’re about successful transcendence. "

20/01/2021

with and at Moods, Zurich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAlS9cy9d50

💿🎧 purchase/stream moods: https://samuelblaser.bandcamp.com/album/moods

full digital album available at bandcamp https://samuelblaser.bandcamp.com/album/moodsMal's Blues (Samuel Bl**er) Samuel Bl**er (trombone) Marc Ducret (guita...

20/01/2021

BM005 Samuel Bl**er, Paul Motian, Russ Lossing, Eivind Opsvik
Live at Cornelia Street Café

released July 24, 2020

P and © 2020 Samuel Bl**er
Bl**er Music LC-95556

available at bandcamp exclusively
https://samuelblaser.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cornelia-street-caf

"The relationship between jazz and classical music can be fraught. Old stereotypes hold that a musician’s commitment to one interferes with their ability to meet the other’s requirements, or that the virtues of one somehow confer superiority over the other. Swiss trombonist Samuel Bl**er is not the kind of guy who will get his foot caught in one of those traps. He can play each with an insider’s understanding and appreciation, so much so that his Consort In Motion project, which lasted from 2010 to 2013, didn’t sound like something from column A and something from column B, but a buffet where you could get a belly full of both." Bill Meyer

18/01/2021

BM004 Samuel Bl**er, Marc Ducret & Peter Bruun ABC vol. 2
released June 26, 2020

P and © 2020 Samuel Bl**er
Bl**er Music LC-95556

available at bandcamp exclusively
https://samuelblaser.bandcamp.com/album/abc-vol-2

"This trio is not his core recording ensemble. In fact, until he, Ducret, and drummer Peter Bruun checked into the Centre Culturel ABC in November 2016, they were his NON-recording ensemble. For a time, Bl**er admits, “I liked the idea of only being able to hear the band in a live setting.” Between 2013 and the 2020 they played around 150 gigs on three continents, booked mostly on the strength of YouTube and Soundcloud links. But eventually the recording industry took interest in the trio. “Werner Uehlinger from Hatology was pushing me to record the trio and submit a master tape for a release.” In 2018, the label issued a set recorded the previous year at the Taktlos Jazz Festival." Bill Meyer

14/01/2021

BM003 Samuel Bl**er, Marc Ducret & Peter Bruun ABC vol. 1
released May 29, 2020

P and © 2020 Samuel Bl**er
Bl**er Music LC-95556

available at bandcamp exclusively
https://samuelblaser.bandcamp.com/album/abc-vol-1

"This trio is not his core recording ensemble. In fact, until he, Ducret, and drummer Peter Bruun checked into the Centre Culturel ABC in November 2016, they were his NON-recording ensemble. For a time, Bl**er admits, “I liked the idea of only being able to hear the band in a live setting.” Between 2013 and the 2020 they played around 150 gigs on three continents, booked mostly on the strength of YouTube and Soundcloud links. But eventually the recording industry took interest in the trio. “Werner Uehlinger from Hatology was pushing me to record the trio and submit a master tape for a release.” In 2018, the label issued a set recorded the previous year at the Taktlos Jazz Festival." Bill Meyer