Studio Percussion brings together Vienna's finest percussionists to interpret the compositions and improvisations of three pillars of Austrian-Swiss contemporary jazz: Harry Pepl, Wolfgang Muthspiel, and Armin Pokorn. These are musicians of international standing, known for pushing jazz into free and avant-garde territories. What you get here is percussion-forward interplay—drums, vibraphone, mallets trading ideas with each other and with intricate harmonic and melodic concepts. The result sits somewhere between composed structure and pure improvisation, with the kind of intellectual playfulness and technical mastery that defines the best of the European free jazz scene. If you dig ensemble jazz that prizes clarity and conversation over raw energy, this rewards close listening.

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