Project: Trio "Lichtblick"

Trio "Lichtblick"

 
Project “Trio "Lichtblick"”

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Trio "Lichtblick" 

 

Markus Stockhausen – trumpet, flugelhorn
Angelo Comisso – piano, synthesizer
Christian Thomé – drums, percussion
Stockhausen – Comisso – Thomé

The group's beginnings go back to the year 2003, when Markus Stockhausen performed the first concerts as a duo with the beguiling pianist Angelo Comisso in Italy. The German debut came the year after at the Munich Piano Festival 'Münchener Klaviersommer' and presented, for example, its "Sound collages of fascinating beauty" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) in the town of Fürstenfeldbruck.

Having expanded to a trio with the addition of Christian Thomé, an extremely sensitive and virtuoso percussionist, a concert tour through Italy followed shortly after. In Trieste the opportunity to make some studio recordings arose. The result of these recordings can be heard on the beautiful CD "Lichtblick – prima, altrove ...", which appeared on the Cologne label Aktivraum in January 2005.

The trio Stockhausen-Comisso-Thomé has been playing together since 2004. The trio's music is clearly shaped by the roots of European art music. Stockhausen's and Comisso's compositions form a harmonious synthesis with the art of improvisation so that a lightness, a kind of playfulness and also something humorous is created. All three musicians are virtuosos on their instruments and have a broad palette of playing experience. The trio's music feels close to jazz, but can amaze a more classically- or contemporary-minded audience just as much.

The following was written about the trio's latest and second CD on the internet on the 18th of January 2007: (www.codexflores.ch/printrezension.php?id=338)

Markus Stockhausen's << Es war einmal – instanti infiniti >>

....Stockhausen himself on trumpet and flugelhorn, Angelo Comisso on piano and synthesizer and the drummer Christian Thomé create meditative, melodically blessed and lyrical dreamscapes, which were performed for the first time in part at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2005. But there is more to be found behind the trio's music than just a pleasant way of grazing the pastures of the otherwise well-groomed, uplifting chamber jazz of the illustrious label ECM from Munich. Besides composing in a melodically and sonically far more subtle and coherent manner than most local independent smaller jazz formations are capable of, the accomplished improviser Stockhausen and the pianist Comisso, who also appears as a composer in half of the pieces, point at a possible direction in which typical European jazz, with its characteristic poetic sensuality, could go.

Since prominent figures such as Klaus Doldinger, Albert Mangelsdorff, Pierre Favre or Mathias Rüegg gave the typical American musical language an independent German voice, the traditions seem to have actually aligned again on both sides (letter to the editor). Stockhausen's artistic development, far from all ideologies and polemics, will therefore continue to be gladly and interestedy followed. (wb)

Read more about the CDs
„Lichtblick – prima, altrove …“
"Es war einmal"

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Examples from our press review:

	Stockhausen’s gorgeous vibrato-drenched phrasings, spiced with majestic themes – On “Es war einmal” Stockhausen leads a bass-less trio, armed... www.allaboutjazz.com
	Que voilà un beau disque ! – la beauté du timbre et la fluidité de l’articulation chez... www.citizenjazz.com

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