new interview with superterz on www.norient.com

Disrupting contexts

by Thomas Burkhalter and Simon Grab 2011

"When listening to Superterz, free improvisation, beats and cuts, noise storms and dissonant soundscapes collide wildly. The music is barely placeable. Ravi and Marcel Vaid from the Zurich long-term collective tell Norient why." (with 30' podcast)

new interview with superterz on www.norient.com

 

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“Electronic music – so to speak – strikes roots in the earth of new music, improvisation and postrock.Ueli Bernays, NZZ

BUY THE NEW DOUBLE-ALBUM 'insomnia' FROM superterz

Artist: Superterz
Album: Insomnia
Time : 147:35

Line-Up:

Ravi Vaid – Electronix, Sequencer, Sampling, Synthz
Marcel Vaid – Piano, Guitars, Kalimba, Vibes, Melodica, Programming
Oliver Schmid – Percussions, Drums, Turntables, Pads, Soundz
Piano on Track 5 (Two) by Marianne Schroeder
Trombone on Track 1,3 (One) & 3,7 (Two) by Bernhard Bamert
Accordion on Track 1 (Two) by Martin Schumacher
Cello on Track 1 (Two) by Martin Birnstiel

Credits:

All songs written and produced by Superterz / Recorded live at Studio-Lift by Superterz 2007–2010
Mixed by Marc Holthuizen and Superterz / Mastered by Dan Suter, Echochamber Zurich / Track 4,5 (Two) recorded live at Taktlos-Festival 2007, Zurich by Jerden Visser / Mixed by Martin Pearson

"It is a monster of an album, with lots of mile-long tracks, fascinating soundpaths, techno rhythms, hollow and trembling bass surfaces, pausing moments and deranged zones." ________ JAZZ AND MORE / PIRMIN BOSSHARD

”The brothers Marcel and Ravi Vaid are among the most distinguished Swiss innovators of electronic music..”

WoZ / FREDDI BOSSHARD - Journalist & Founder of the Taktlos- Festival' in Zurich

Superterz worked with ...

Harald Haerter, Sophie Hunger, Heidi Happy, Marianne Schroeder, Martin Pearson, Jürg Jecklin, Markus Schoenholzer, Daniel Goetsch, Martin Birnstiel, Simon Berz, Oliver Schmid, Marc Flury, Koho Mori-Newton, Mario Forte, Hugues Vincent, Manu Rindlisbacher, Alessandro Gianelli, Bernhard Bamert, Robert Alexander, Nicole Biermaier, Iva Sanjek, Norbert Möslang, Christian Weber, Jasser Haj Youssef, Stéphane Blok u.v.m...

 

concerts
 
we are booking for 2012/2013 (switzerland & international)
 
may 2011 - Superterz, Ghent (Belgium)- feat. Luc Gobin & Luke Aaron Clark
may 2011 - Superterz, Paris - EAF-Festival Cité internatinals des arts, Paris
avril 2011 - Superterz, Paris - feat. Koho Mori-Newton & Mario Forte
march 2011 - Superterz, Paris- feat. Huques Vincent
february 2011 - Superterz, Moods (Zuerich/Switzerland) - Finale INSOMNIA-Sessions

dec/jan 2010/11 - Superterz live at Starkart - INSOMNIA-Sessions (Zuerich/Switzerland) - 6 concerts in a week - 9 guests

may 2010 - Superterz, Open Broadcast (Basel/Switzerland)
avril 2010 - Superterz, Satisfactory (Basel/Switzerland)
avril 2010 - Superterz, Walcheturm (Zuerich/Switzerland)
may 2010 - Superterz, Grabenhalle (St. Gallen/Switzerland)
avril 2010 - Superterz, EXIL (Zuerich/Switzerland) - Release INSOMNIA

SUPERTERZ feat. Simon Berz & Harald Haerter ____________ April 2010 Open Broadcast & Satisfactory, Basel /// 13. Mai 2010 Grabenhalle, St. Gallen

Juni 2010 - INSOMNIA, the 5. album from Superterz:

The double album “Insomnia” emerged from countless studio sessions between 2007 and 2010.
Created were gigabites of sounds and grooves, which were condensed in these two CDs. Multiple
sequencers interlock, counterbeats arise without measure, tones of irritating familiarity. The
conscious distancing from pre-established ways, the creation of musical antimatter, can be
experienced on “Insomnia” like on no other of the 5 former CDs by Superterz.

The sensualization of bits and bites

Surprising, unfamiliar and iridescent they are, these crystallizations of huge halls, ceiling-less
churches, labyrinthine corridors, wide plains, ragged chasms and infinite heights and they keep
spitting us out like Alice from Wonderland. Rhythms seem to be standing outside of time and yet
grooves form that go straight to the guts. One imagines oneself to be inside a machine. Seemingly
familiar sounds of guitars, drums, synthesizers and electronics, voices and a trombone, like woven
into a veil dance, ensnare but never lull. “Insomnia” is a poetical work in which bits and bites mount
up to sensual realities and every second constitutes a new discovery.

Between the concerts

“Insomnia” is not a compilation of songs that you can hear again in concert. They are journals,
instantaneous recordings in cosmic noise that will never return but which are resumed. Each
concert is a new beginning on the basis of what faded out last time. This unique musical language
of Superterz develops from a purposeful meandering without a direction being given. The
references are a few tracks, this groove that we all know from the cellars and canteens of the
Techno movement and this claim never to do the same thing twice but to move ahead without
determining a direction like the expansion of cosmic energy after the big bang.

„Goodnight Nobody“
Inspiriert ist „Insomnia“ auch durch das Portrait auf dem Cover. Es zeigt einen Insomniac aus der Ukraine, der 12 Jahre lang nicht geschlafen hat. Ein medizinisches Wunder in der Trance zwischen den Welten, welches im Film „Goodnight Nobody“ (DOCMINE 2009, Jacqueline Zünd) portraitiert wird. Die Musik zum Film schrieb Marcel Vaid.

Superterz live im Open Broadcast¨
Samstag, 13. Juni 2009 um 22:00 Uhr

Musik/Kunst - Was für die Ohren
Open Broadcast Radio Village
Utengasse 15
Basel, SwitzerlandDas weitere Programm wird täglich bekannt gegeben, hier und über: http://openbroadcach/team/weblog

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Superterz
live am ELITA Music-Festival, Milano

26. April 2009

 
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Superterz im Moods Zürich
Mittwoch 21. Januar 2009 - 21h
guest: nIc Video
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Superterz & Gäste am Stadtsommer Zürich 2008
08. August am Platzspitzpark 20.30h
 
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Under the spell of the displaced: The new album "Insomnia" of the Swiss electronica band Superterz

von Ueli Bernays, NZZ 2010 (click)

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WIDE AWAKE- from Frank von Niederhäusern

Advanced techno music beyond dull NzNzNz loops has long been in league with ornate pop and jazz improvisation. The Zurich project Superterz provides significant contributions since years.

For her new double CD, the tinkering brothers Marcel and Ravi Vaid have assembled togehter with the drummer Oliver Schmid live recordings and studio recordings into a 13-part dreamsuite. Those ones who get involved in this puzzle pictures of digital and analogue sounds are guaranteed to remain awake.

Radiomagazin, Kulturtip

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"I’m thinking of Supersilent’s rockiest moments (mostly bits of 1-3, 5 and 7). Rather unpredictable yet comfortable."

François Couture, Monsieur Délire RADIOSHOW, CA

"Superterz is a Swiss trio consisting of Ravi Vaid (electronics), Marcel Vaid (keys, guitars, percussion). Insomnia is a looong 2-CD set (two hours and a half), but it offers some interesting music, improvised yet beat-driven, groovy atonal music, funk experimental ambient with an electro-jazz flavour. I’m thinking of Supersilent’s rockiest moments (mostly bits of 1-3, 5 and 7). Rather unpredictable yet comfortable."

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Superterz has a new label in switzerland:

Unit Records (www.unitrecords.com)

 

Alpinechic.net proudly presents the release of iChic, the 6th free mp3-compilation

.[...] On this compilation SUPERTERZ with the song: "married to an ivy tree" (Voc: Markus Schönholzer)

Listen + download Song "married to an ivy tree"
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Listen Song + Download Song "Lunar Park"
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"Fascinating sound universe of Superterz" ____ Christoph Merki, Tages-Anzeiger 2011

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****'INSOMNIA Sessions' is the latest live project from Superterz. Fixed star in the middle of this ever-changing constellation are the brothers Ravi and Marcel Vaid. They invited nine extraordinary musicians for their first Happening in Zurich (December 2010). For example the jazz guitarist Harald Haerter or the diy-sound artist Norbert Möslang. In a series of seven concerts, the band developed into changing formations improvised soundkosmoi which consistancy lies in its modification.****

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"Currently the brothers Vaid and their live drummer Simon Berz have made an opus magnum, six so- called Insomnia Sessions, meaning literally gatherings of sleplessness for six sequenced nights." __________(duk, zueritipp)

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“It is manic music, music that crosses the line, a merging of various worlds. Fading in and out: electronics, percussion and acoustic instruments in a discourse between Jazz, Electronic and Post-Rock; music as field than as sealed composition. SUPERTERZ, the project of the two brothers Marcel and Ravi Vaid (the former a multiple awardee of film music, the latter the maker of the Dachkantine-film) is dedicated wide awake to improvisation on the upcoming album “Insomnia”. A double-CD with journals of live encounters like with the Neue-Musik-pianist Marianne Schroeder and the trombonist Bernhard Bamert. The Jazz guitarist Harald Haerter and thedrummer Simon Berz will accompany Superterz on the occasion of their CD-Release. _____”
(sib/züritipp)

Superterz INSOMNIA-SESSIONS Finale Moods (Pics by Thomas Burkhalter)

Superterz INSOMNIA-SESSIONS Starkart-Galerie, Zuerich 2010/11 (Pics by Michelel Ettlin)

 

 

SUPERTERZ

 

“Superterz display the communicative demeanour of folk musicians combined with the swift reaction time of free jazz artists. Yes, the pioneer Pierre Schaffer would be delighted; electronic music has mastered the impromptu and the dialogue.” _________Christoph Merki (Tages-Anzeiger)

contact: ravi.vaid@superterz.ch

INSOMNIA-SESSIONS:

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”I’m thinking of Supersilent’s rockiest moments - rather unpredictable yet comfortable._____Francois Couture / Delire Radioshow, Canada

“...of a daring knight move on the playing grounds of the musical now and here: from the improvising avant-garde forwards to German techno and then two squares back to the Bristol past."

_____Ueli Bernays (NZZ Feuilleton)

 

2010/2011      

guests

     
     
Christian Weber      
       
     
Norbert Möslang      

 

     
     
Stéphane Blok      

 

     
     
Simon Berz      

 

     
     
Harald Haerter      
       
       
     
Iva Sanjek      
       
     
Bernhard Bamert      
       
     
Hugues Vincent      
       
     
Robert Alexander      
       
     
Markus Maggiori      
       
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Martin Birnstiel

     
videos

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