MARKUS BREUSS An eclectic and undoubtedly innovatory composer, trumpeter and investigator of electronics, Breuss is an emblematic figure of the creative freedom. A traveller that alternates every year his stay in Spain with long periods in India, he combines, in his music, the remotest influences with a drastic review of popular music from electronics, collage and chamber music compositions. His contemporary background and the constant interest for eastern music turn him into one of the most singular composers and multi-instrumentalists of the European musical scene. He is the founder of one of the most interesting Spanish groups: Clónicos. As improviser are interesting his works with Scorecrackers and lately with Kalimpong Trio. Born in Alstätten (Switzerland) in 1956, he is a recognized performer, composer, and developer of his own sound by making electronic-acoustics instruments and diversity experimentation in the music sphere. This eclectic composer and multi-instrumental performer who establish his residence in Madrid (Spain) in 1982 is certainly the most emblematic and liberal figure of the spanish vanguard. Markus Breuss is the only possible and concrete personality representing the passage between the noise to the post-noise in the spanish contemporary music. He has register more than 90 tunes including electronic-acoustic music and Chamber music. In 1962 by the hand of his father Joseph Breuss, trumpet player member of the Symphonic Orchestra of Switzerland who teach him the music that bring him to start as a trumpet player in the Opera of Saint Gallen (Switzerland) with Aida of Verdi. All this background and his continuos interesting for the oriental music make this mixture and contrasting artist one of the most vanguard multi-instrumentalist and revolutionary figure in the European panorama. He has collaborated with groups such as: Margind Band, Moslang-Guhl Duo, Big Band AMADS, Luis De Pablo, Malcom Goldstein, Taller de Música Mundana, Luis Paniagua, Llorenç Barber, Fátima Miranda, Sergi Jordà, Big-Band of Tolosa, Christian Marclay-Günter Müler, Finis Africae, Mil Dolores Pequeños, etc. He performed in pretigious places as: Fundación Joan Miró (Barcelona), Arco (Madrid), Cycle of Experimental Music (Universidad de Valencia), Jorge Kreisler Gallery (Madrid), Biodealdia eta Muzak-Crash (Guipozcoa), Spanish Jazz Festival of Copenhagüe (Dinamarca), Festival Hispano-Mexicano of Contemporary Music (Madrid), Autumn Festival (Madrid), Muestra Internacional de Teatro (Valladolid), Jazz Festival of Moers (Germany), Swiss Club (Switzerland), Actual Festival (Logroño), New Spanish Music Festival (Sevilla), Madrid-Paralelo Festival (Madrid), Transformadors (Barcelona), En el Limite Festival (Santander), Espacio P (Madrid), Gràcia Territori Sonor (Barcelona), Círculo de Bellas Artes IV International Festival of Electroacoustic Music (Madrid), Hurta Cordel I Festival of improvise music (Madrid), Association Contrabajo (Huesca), Jazz in Málaga (Málaga), Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), National Auditorium of Music (Madrid), etc. Samuel B. Jr. DISCOGRAPHY •Seguridad y Televisión (cassette, Cloned Tapes, 1984) •Tubes and Cubes (cassette, Toracic Tapes, 1989) •Desnudo (Hyades Arts, 1992 / Doronko Records, 2000, cassette - CD) •Awake Hu (CD, CEDI, 1999) •Zwei Kompositionen (CD, Doronko Records, 1999) •Muda na Kenshin - Devoción Inútil (CD, Doronko Records, 2000) Compilations: •Richard Kimball es inocente (partes l a lV) (Schwarzkopf", cassette, Toracic Tapes, 1989) •Entschlüsse ("Franz Kafka", cassette, Hyades Arts, 1991) •An Urban Meeting ("Audioscope", CD, Geometrik, 1992) •The Return of Monster Magnet ("Unmatched Evangelio 2º", CD, Hall Of Fame, 1997) •Modelo Piloto 2.5 (Book-Record "Laboratorio", El Europeo, 2001) with Clónicos: •Aspetti Diversi (LP/CD, Linterna, 1985) •Figuras Españolas (LP, Gasa, 1988) •Copa De Veneno (CD/LP/cassette, Ed. Cúbicas, 1990) •Esquizodelia (CD, Triquinoise, 1995) •Clónicos/1996 - El mundo del fin del tiempo (Soundtrack) (CD, Doronko, 2001) •Burnt Hits (CD, Doronko, compilation, 2002) with OCQ: •OCQ (LP/CD, Linterna, 1986) •Metalógica (LP, Linterna, 1988) with Scorecrackers: •Eating Flowers (CD, Por Caridad, 1997) •x2 d2 (unpublished track on "Trienni" CD, G3G/Talp Club, 1999) with Kalimpong Trio: •Washi Chiyogami (CD, Hazard Records, 2000) Gregorio Kazaroff - Iñaki Rios - Markus Breuss: •En el Albergue de Peregrinos (CD recorded -live- in León, Doronko Records, 2002) with Breuss-Arrizabalaga Quintet: •Concert For Kowald (CD Hazard Records, 2002) •Nfamoudou-Boudougou (CD, Hazard Records,2003) with FAKTOR BOSSAR: •7pm eastern wartime (CD, Doronko Records,2003) •slow & hard (CD, Doronko Records, 2004) CLONICOS Y MARKUS BREUSS Madrid 1984: Markus Breuss (switzerland), Pelayo F. Arrizabalaga and Justo Bagüeste found Clónicos, a poly-stylistic experience under the influence of K.H. Stockhausen, Edgar Varese, Fred Frith, John Zorn, The Art Ensemble of Chicago... Hardcore, free jazz, Chinese, contemporary and any other kind of music working together to find explosive new formulas difficult to classify without losing track of their meanings in the process. Open to a great variety of expressive forms, they use everything from primitive percussion to high-tech synthesizers and samplers, along with invented instruments (electrified springs and triggered transistors), classical musical instruments such as the trumpet, bass clarinet and cello, as well as toy guitars, hubcap and "super Constellation" airlines. Markus Breuss, a musician with a solid musical education, is the director and main composer. The band had permanent changes during ten years. The first line-up, next to free-rock, including Markus Breuss (trumpet, fliscornio, tube, percussions, voices, turntables, synthesizer, tapes, invented instruments and toys), Pelayo F. Arrizabalaga (baritone sax, turntables, paint, voice), Victor -Polanski- Vázquez (guitar, voice), Justo Bagüeste (tenor sax) y Celes -Coyote- Arbizu (drums). The last line-up, more poly-stylistic, including Breuss & Arrizabalaga plus Antonio García (guitar), Susana Kulia (voice, percussion), Rlcardo Fuentes (keyboards), Luis Escribano (bass, cello), Pedro López or Inma Crespo (drums) and a-one strings section. Other collaborators, in recordings as live performances, are Llorenç Barber, Antón Ignorant, Pedro Garhel, Luis Paniagua, Fátima Miranda, Juan A. Arteche, Wade Matthews, Javier Corcobado, Poch, Victor Nubla, Javier Colis, JuanCrek,Ajo... Clónicos is a radical, provocative and avant-garde propose. In fact, their quality made them to take part in the prestigious Möers Festival (Germany), for instance. Samuel B. Jr.
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