Flux @ DOWNSTAIRS

In the organizer's words:

Accordionist Florian Stadler and saxophonist, clarinettist and composer Christina Fuchs have been an unparalleled musical couple for many years. They move with ease and great intensity through the unique world of their compositions and seem to know no technical boundaries. Whatever Fuchs and Stadler start is always a musical dialog: they can play fast and loud. They can groove, but much more important to them is the sound, merging sound structures, filigree sound fabric or in free, sometimes wild, always intensely interrelated improvisation, with breathtaking turns from total fusion to total individuality. Their exciting playing is effortless, intimate, fun and humorous.

"With "Roots and Rhyzomes", the Cologne duo FLUX presents a masterpiece of improvised chamber music...The recordings in the chamber music hall of Deutschlandfunk were made in just three days without any preparation. Its transparent surround sound provides the ideal resonance space for the spontaneously developed improvisations - making the organically grown, self-contained result all the more remarkable. "Roots and Rhyzomes" celebrates the art of spontaneous improvisation at the highest level and is a perfect example of the free musical interaction between two confident instrumental artists acting as equals." Jazzthetik 7/24