Mockūnas - Mikalkėnas - Windfeld "Plunged"

Trio dėmesys skiriamas originaliajai medžiagai, kurią parašė Mockūnas ir Mikalkėnas, ir ją galima apibūdinti kaip modernų kamerinį džiazą, įkvėptą šiuolaikinės klasikinės muzikos ir laisvo džiazo. Kompozicijos turi skaidrią struktūrą, kurioje ritminiai ir melodingi šablonai yra atspirties taškas labai atvirai improvizacijai. 2014 m. Spalio mėn. Trio atliko dviejų savaičių koncertinę kelionę Lietuvoje, Estijoje, Norvegijoje ir Čekijoje. Į kelionę įtrauktas festivalio koncertas Vilniaus džiazo festivalyje, kuris buvo įrašytas ir išleistas kompaktinėje plokšetėje pavadinimu „Plunged“.

LINKS:

Label http://barefoot-records.com/plunged/ 

Album https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljuYaCU_ZdM&t=50s 

- Live video from Kaunas, 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNqMBQd7KsE

Renowned Lithuanian saxophonist Liudas Mockūnas put in 2013 together a trio that connects. Lithuanian and Danish improvised scene. Mockūnas has for many years been one of the most important avantgarde musicians from the Baltic region, with a wide range of collaborations across Europe, USA and Japan. On piano and accordion, we have Arnas Mikalkėnas who is one of the most promising improvisers from the younger generations of musicians from Lithuania. The last member of the trio is Danish drummer Christian Windfeld, who has worked with Mockūnas in several contexts such as Mockūnas/Windfeld Duo and others.
The trio focuses on original material written by Mockūnas and Mikalkėnas, and can be characterized as modern chamber jazz with inspiration from contemporary classical music and free jazz. The compositions have a transparent structure where the rhythmic and melodic templates provide a starting point for a very open kind of improvisation. In October 2014 the trio played a 2week tour with concerts in Lithuania, Estonia, Norway and the Czech Republic. The tour included a festival concert at Vilnius Jazz Festival, which was
recorded digitally by Lithuanian state radio. The recording resulted in the CD “Plunged”; an and accurate documentation of the trio’s work.

Liudas Mockunas has been active on European Jazz scene as a leader and co-leader of bands Mockuno Nuclear, Pasborg - Mockunas Toxikum, Saga Quartet, Red Planet, Kablys, duos with Marc Ducret, Barry Guy, Ryoji Hojito, William Hooker and Petras Geniusas. He is a member of Pasborg’s Odessa 5 and Stefan Pasborg‘s „Free Moby Dick“, Mikko Innanen’s Inkvisitio, Copenhagen Art Ensemble, Konvoj Ensemble feat. Evan Parker and Sten Sandell, Lithuanian New Music ensemble Gaida and Lithuanian Music Network Ensemble. The creative interests of Mockūnas are focused on improvised music and experimental jazz stage. In 2004 Liudas received the "Danish Music Award' for there album "Toxikum", Mockunas also has received "Vilnius Jazz Prize" 2006', Birstonas Jazz 2008, Lithuanian Musicians Union prize "Golden Disc" 2008' and the “Golden Cross” for the best Lithuanian drama theatre composer 2011. As a soloist of new academic music he played with Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Kralovy Hradec Symphony Orchestra, St. Christofer Chamber Orchestra, Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra and string quartet Chordos. As a composer he has been comissioned to write music for Copenhagen Art Ensemble in 2006, Klaipeda Chamber Orchestra in 2008 and 2013 and string quartet „Chordos”. He is one of the founders of Lithuanian Jazz Federation and Vilnius based independed record label NoBusiness Records which focuses on releases of experimental jazz music.

Arnas Mikalkėnas composer,piano and acordion player declares that his goal is to foster the non-commercial art of improvised music, animate the audiences with the intensity of music. Moreover, he is well known in the academic music world – has garnered prizes in a number of competitions, performed in Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Ireland, etc. Arnas co-leads a fluxus inspired trio „Oak Birches“, duo with trumpetist Dominykas Vyshniauskas, takes part in performances, composes music for Kaunas Drama Theater, etc. Played with : Lasse Lindgren, Kenny Wollesen, Jerohme Fourier, ,Ken McCann, Vytautas Labutis, Dominykas Vyšniauskas, Francesco Angiuli, Arvydas Joffe, Tomas Razmus.

Christian Windfeld
Born 1983 , lives in Aarhus, Denmark and frequently tours the world as a snare-drum soloist and with a variety of groups. Christian has collaborated on over 40 record-releases world wide with various groups including, Flamingo, Ellipsis, FØRSTEPERSONENTAL, Kolonihaven Unikum and Admiral Awesome. Windfed has performed with a.m.o. Audrey Chen, Okkyung Lee, Nina De Heney, Mette Rasmussen, Gene Perla, Pietro Tonolo, Fredrik Ljungkvist, Mikko Innanen and Axel Dörner. In 2015 Windfeld received the 2 year long highly esteemed grant “The young Elite” from the
Danish Arts Council.