Zen World Cables Reza Askari

• 1Revisiting Resonance03:51
• 2Zen World Cables00:23
• 3Interceptor00:18
• 4Cbgb05:16
• 5Threads of Introspection03:11
• 6Synecdoche07:33
• 7Decadence Redux01:39
• 8Calima (Sand)05:21
• 9Zen Detectorat02:48
• 10Desayuno Nica03:20
• 11Nacatameles04:16
• 12Journey Through The Non-Place World05:16
• Total Runtime43:12

Info for Zen World Cables

"ROAR feat. Christopher Dell" is the logical extension of Reza Askari's trio. Saxophone, double bass and drums are joined by the vibraphone - quasi percussion, harmony and rhythm instrument in one and therefore the ideal complement. Dell not only brings vibrating metal plates and beating mallets into the existing trio, but also his own way of thinking and working: Structures are questioned, gutted, negated or reassembled. Within the buildings that "ROAR" creates and has built, windows open up. They unlock a view of new soundscapes. While Askari's compositions for the trio let off steam in their respective frames, the quartet sometimes scrapes at the frame of the frame, scratches some varnish from the surface, leaves it and returns to it again.

When improvising together, the top premise is always the group. The three musical counterparts are always the linchpin on which their own playing is suspended and oriented. Communication that is based on trust, the joy of playing and ears as big as satellite dishes.

The extended instrumentation creates denser sound structures. The minimalism of "ROAR" gives way to a newly differentiated complexity and colorfulness. On the first album released in 2022 of the four people band, "rhythms, patterns, textures, ideas quickly pile up while Askari’s compositions provided the base for experimental improvisations.

On this second album in quartet format, the enlargement to include Dell has provoked an urging of the group to go along with completely free improvised music.

Change is the foil on which the four musicians draw their paintings. They are grounded in free space and focus. In this way, the potential of "ROAR" is exploited in a new together with Christopher Dell.

Stefan Karl Schmid, clarinet, tenor saxophone
Christopher Dell, vibraphone
Reza Askari, double bass
Fabian Arends, drums

Recorded at Fattoria Musica Osnabrück by Alexander Binder
Mixed by Alexander Binder and Reza Askari
Mastered by Markus Abendroth at Zodiaque Berlin
Produced by Reza Askari

Reza Askari
was born in Fulda in 1986 to a father who immigrated from Iran and a German mother, and first began playing the piano at the age of five. At the age of eleven, he discovered the electric bass guitar for himself and began his musical career early in local punk and jazz bands.

After graduating from high school, Askari began his music studies in 2006, majoring in electric bass at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz in Cologne with Marius Goldhammer and later also on the double bass with Dieter Manderscheid and Sebastian Gramss. He completed his studies in Cologne in 2012 with distinction. Askari then continued his studies in the Master of Improvising Arts at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen with Robert Landfermann, also graduating "Summa cum laude" in 2014.

From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the Landesjugendjazzorchester Hessen, from 2010 to 2011 of the Bundesjazzorchester and the European Masterclass Big Band under the direction of John Ruocco.

Askari has worked at festivals and clubs with artists such as Marc Ducret, Lee Konitz, Benny Golson, Hayden Chisholm, Jeff Hamilton, Barre Phillips, Mark Dresser, Peter Herbolzheimer, Mike Herting, Philipe Catherine, Ramesh Shotham, Frank Haunschild, Thomas Rückert, Frank Gratkowski, Heiner Wiberny, Gerd Dudek, John Hollenbeck, Jiggs Whigham, Gary Versace, Max Herre, Clueso, Sophie Hunger, Max Mutzke, Götz Alsmann, Wolf Biermann and Carolin Kebekus and travelled through countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, USA, Canada, Colombia, Panama and many European countries with different formations.

With his ensemble "ROAR", consisting of Stefan Karl Schmid, Fabian Arends and Askari, he released two albums in 2017 and 2020 as a trio, and in 2022 as a quartet with vibraphonist Christopher Dell as bandleader.

This album contains no booklet.