Silvan Schmid

• DIGIPACK EDITION

Musicians as different as Bill Dixon, Wadada Leo Smith, Axel Dörner, Susana Santos Silva have experimented with the lonely, no-safety-net discipline of solo trumpet playing. It is one of the hardest avocations in music: no harmony instrument, no pedal notes, no supportive pick-up if things go wrong. Schmid seems to follow in that line and yet the solo performances on Augmented Space, for all the extreme discipline of his technique, seems very different to the artists above. There is something of the lone bugler in his playing, a sense of communicating identity with the narrowest and least elaborate of means.

PERSONNEL:

• Silvan Schmid - trumpet

Switzerland, November 2019 and January, 2020

TRACKS:

• 01. Gamut
• 02. Raumwege
• 03. Augmented Space I
• 04. Augmented II