MI 29.06. 20:00 CONCERT
SHA - MONBIJOU
JAZZ CLUB
Multimusician and echolot for emotions
Swiss multi-musician and composer Sha was born in Bern in 1983 and lives wherever music takes him. Sha received saxophone lessons from the age of 11 and went on to study at the Lucerne School of Music, where he completed two master's degrees.
Since 2004, he has played worldwide tours with Nik Bärtschs' Ronin, Nik Bärtsch's Mobile, The Legendary Lightness and Piet Klocke. He composes for his own groups Sha's Banryu and Sha's Feckel and collaborates with dance and theater projects at Zurich Opera House, Gessneralle and Vor Ort. In February 2021 Sha released his first solo album Monbijou, recorded in the huge hollow interior of the box girder bridge Monbijou in Bern. The record consists of several different vignettes composed over the years and woven into a 30-minute suite. While the idea of a solo performance might evoke images of an inner monologue, Monbijou is essentially a work about the hidden space around us, defined by the sounds we create.
Echo sounder for emotions, if you will. "Sha's music speaks to both hemispheres, creating its own unity that can be absorbed on a purely instinctual level, while providing plenty of fodder for those who like their music as food for thought."
John Kelman, www.allaboutjazz.com
"[...] or, when saxophonist Sha steps out, like an acoustic version of Weather Report riffing off the theme to The Twilight Zone."
Jim Fusilli, Wall Street Journal
"His sax offers up soaring notes of purest silver." Sid Smith,
www.bbc.co.uk
"Sha's bass clarinet haloes everything in mysterious ambient soundwashes."
Stuart Nicholson, The Observer
