Steamboat Switzerland: With innovative border crossers between hardcore and avantgarde – breath-taking, radical, exact.

A steamboat is a boat that is propelled primarily by steam power, typically driving propellers or paddlewheels. Steamboats sometimes use the prefix designation SS, S.S. or S/S (for ‘Screw Steamer’) or PS (for Paddle Steamer); however, these designations are most often used for steamships. How many steamboats there are in Switzerland I actually don`t know, but there are a band with the name Steamboat Switserland. A band that offers fascinating avant prog on the album Terrifying Sunset, and two more than 20 minutes longs track.

The Swiss trio is a energetic and innovative border crossers between hardcore and avantgarde – breath-taking, radical, exact.

Contemporary German artist Albert Oehlen invited Steamboat Switzerland to create music for his solo exhibition Tramonto Spaventoso at the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles, 2021.

Oehlen and the experimental Swiss ensemble had already collaborated in 2019/2020 at the Serpentine Galleries (London). The recorded instant compositions draw connection with Oehlen’s own visual strategies in which he interprets and transforms John Graham’s painting Tramonto Spaventoso (Terrifying Sunset) (1940–49).

The music has been played throughout the day of the exhibition from June 10–July 24, 2021.

The «Hammond avantcore trio Steamboat Switzerland is a damn wild and absolutely virtuoso band. They tour worldwide and played a wide range of different festivals – from Donaueschinger Musiktage and Moers Festival to Patti Smith’s London Meltdown Festiva» etc.

The group combines elements from jazz, metal and contemporary scores. The sounds exchange between dark power ambient and boulez on the rocks.

Steamboat Switzerland was founded in 1995. Ever since independent in their own management. To date several hundreds of performances and some 8 albums. Concerts in the US, Canada, China, South Africa, Mozambique, Russia, Georgia and nearly all of Europe.

Rare guest appearances or cooperations with a.o. Stephan Wittwer, Michael Wertmüller, John Cale, David Dramm, Eugene Robinson.

Several prices (City of Zurich, Swiss Music Award Nomination)

Labels: Unit, Moon, Grob, D.B.Waves, Trost.

Tracklist:

1. Chimborazo=South=Face (22:02)

2. Tiger=East=Face (23:43)

Dominik Blum – Hammond organ, (opt. piano, Korg MS20 synthesizer, Hohner clavinet),  voice,

Marino Pliakas – e-bass

Lucas Niggli – drums

Steamboat Switzerland – Terrifying Sunset

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Steamboat Switzerland: With innovative border crossers between hardcore and avantgarde – breath-taking, radical, exact.

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