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Samuel Blaser
18 monologues élastiques

Samuel Blaser: 18 monologues élastiques (CD)

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Artist: Samuel Blaser
Title: 18 monologues élastiques
Format: CD / DL
Release date: October 6, 2025
Reference: BM018
EAN: 0730706016851
Recorded: January & February 2013 by Martin Ruch at Funkhaus Nalepastrasse, Berlin, Germany with two Schoeps mk4 microphones on a boom, in ORTF or XY configuration, 702T and Zoom H4N recorder sound devices.
Mix and Mastering: Martin Ruch
Artwork: Sophie Morisson Tansini
Liner notes: Thomas Staudter
Produced by: Samuel Blaser

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October 6th 2025
℗ & © 2025 Blaser Music

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Samuel Blaser (trombone)

18 monologues élastiques takes its name from Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques, the landmark collection by Blaise Cendrars, the Swiss-born modernist poet who grew up around the corner from Blaser in La Chaux-de-Fonds. Less a tribute than a wink, the album is a collection of solo trombone improvisations recorded at the former DDR Radio Studios in Berlin: seriously playful, unrepeatable, and as resistant to category as Cendrars himself. The trombone, uniquely mimetic, gives voice here to an entire world at once.

Format: CD / DL
Release date: October 6, 2025
Reference: BM018
EAN: 0730706016851
Recorded: Recorded in January & February 2013 by Martin Ruch at Funkhaus Nalepastrasse, Berlin, Germany with two Schoeps mk4 microphones on a boom, in ORTF or XY configuration, 702T and Zoom H4N recorder sound devices.
Mix andMastering: Martin Ruch
Artwork: Sophie Morisson Tansini
Liner notes: Thomas Staudter
Produced by: Samuel Blaser

A true fireworks display of everything the trombone allows: clarity of playing, full and round sound, supple articulation, technical mastery, inventiveness, and humor.

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Il Manifesto, guido michelone, April 2026
These monologues are even more unique. He recorded the album while walking throughout multiple acoustically-designed areas in Berlin's famous Funkhaus studio complex... the building's spatial qualities are also adapted to the creation.

Jazzword, Ken Waxman, March 2026
Imagine how it is improvising with nothing but three valves, a manipulating slide and a body tube. But that's what Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser does.

The Whole Note, Ken Waxman, March 2026
Technique of excellence and inspiration go hand in hand, there is nothing academic or forcedly virtuosic, and the tracks connect, despite their extreme diversity, with soft naturalness.

Blowup, Piercarlo Poggio, November 2025
Samuel Blaser as the non-conformist trombonist who juggles sound, space, and movement.

Jazzhalo, Georges Tonla Briquet, November 2025
No flowing melodies, but sketches, impressions, glissandi, and above all well-considered playfulness.

Jazzmania, Georges Tonla Briquet, November 2025
Both an artistic statement and a cultural homage

Impronta de Jazz, September 2025
What a stroke of genius.

JazzMa, Hegedüs Zsuzsanna, October 2025
Here's another to add to their number alongside Mangelsdorff, George Lewis, and Paul Rutherford. A hugely varied and enthralling release, highly recommended.

Jazz Journal, Andy Hamilton, October 2025
A collection of sound and surprise, seriously playful, a modernist's answer, unrepeatable, to another puzzling question.

Salt Peanuts, Eyal Hareuveni, October 2025
A one-of-a-kind listening experience.

Jazzhalo, Ferdinand Dupuis-Panther, August 2025
We knew he was capable of almost anything with a slide, but not at this level of abstraction and experimentation.

Citizenjazz, Franpi, September 2020
An act of discovery rather than a simple improvisation.

Jazztimes, Shaun Brady, September 2020
A magnificent solo recorded in the former GDR studios in Berlin.

Jazzmania, Jean-Pierre Goffin, August 2020
A veritable map of the musician's psyche.

All About Jazz, Doug Colette, December 2020

Documentary by Stéphane Talneau

Recorded at Wincraft Music Studios, Hill Barn, Hazleton, Cheltenham, United Kingdom by James Towler on October 8th and 9th, 2023.
Mixed by James Towler in 2024
Mastered by Stefan Heger on April 26th, 2024
Produced by Samuel Blaser

Cover artwork & design: Sophie Morisson Tansini
Pictures: John Guillemin

BM013LP
October 24th 2024
℗ & © 2024 Blaser Music

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DANIEL HUMAIR - drums SAMUEL BLASER - trombone HEIRI KÄNZIG - double bass

Format: CD / DL
Release date: May 24th 2024
Reference: BM012
EAN: 0730706013454
Recorded: September 26th and 27th 2022 at Studio 2 RSI, Lugano-Besso, Switzerland by Lara Persia.
Mix: Lara Persia.
Mastering: Dave Darlington
Artwork: Sophie Morisson Tansini
Liner notes: Manfred Papst & Ruedi Ankli
Produced by: Samuel Blaser

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Sarah Maria Sun - soprano
Ensemble SONGS

Format: CD digisleeve + DL
Physical release date: May 20th 2022
Reference: SONGS001
Barcode: 0730706005015
Recorded: Recorded by Ines Kammann at Gare du Nord, Basel, Switzerland on Dec. 15th and 16th 2020.
Mixed and mastered: Ines Kammann at Nordklang, Billerbeck, Germany.
Artwork: Niklaus Troxler
Liner notes: Paul Kildea
Production: © 2022 SONGS / Blaser Music
Executive Producer: Samuel Blaser

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Samuel Blaser 18 monologues élastiques

A true fireworks display of everything the trombone allows: clarity of playing, full and round sound, supple articulation, technical mastery, inventiveness, and humor.

Explores the extreme possibilities of the instrument through rapid glissandi, multiphonics, and physical percussions. Between contemporary music, postmodern jazz, and sound art.

These monologues are even more unique. He recorded the album while walking throughout multiple acoustically-designed areas in Berlin's famous Funkhaus studio complex... the building's spatial qualities are also adapted to the creation.

Imagine how it is improvising with nothing but three valves, a manipulating slide and a body tube. But that's what Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser does.

Technique of excellence and inspiration go hand in hand, there is nothing academic or forcedly virtuosic, and the tracks connect, despite their extreme diversity, with soft naturalness.

Samuel Blaser as the non-conformist trombonist who juggles sound, space, and movement.

No flowing melodies, but sketches, impressions, glissandi, and above all well-considered playfulness.

Both an artistic statement and a cultural homage

What a stroke of genius.

Here's another to add to their number alongside Mangelsdorff, George Lewis, and Paul Rutherford. A hugely varied and enthralling release, highly recommended.

A collection of sound and surprise, seriously playful, a modernist's answer, unrepeatable, to another puzzling question.

A one-of-a-kind listening experience.

We knew he was capable of almost anything with a slide, but not at this level of abstraction and experimentation.

An act of discovery rather than a simple improvisation.

A magnificent solo recorded in the former GDR studios in Berlin.

A veritable map of the musician's psyche.

Documentary by Stéphane Talneau

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