Thursday, 6. December 2012
Filmpodium, Zurich
www.filmpodium.ch
SABEKU-Trio (Saxophone, Bassoon, Drums, Double Bass)
With ‘Il Fuoco’ (1915) and ‘Tigre Reale’ (1916), Italian director Giovanni Pastrone helped his wife achieve her final breakthrough as a silent movie star. Pina Menichelli became for Italy, what Musidora was for France – a femme fatale, getting men to lie at her feet in droves. In ‘Tigre Reale’ she plays a Russian countess whose only real love had been a Polish rebel, who, in proof of his love, had preferred death to a life without her. From this point onwards, love is but a (stage) play to her. Until she has an affair with an Italian diplomat behind her husband’s back.
The film is set to music by the SABEKU-Trio with Sandra Weiss (saxophone, bassoon), David Beglinger (drums) and Stefanie Knuckler (double bass). Originally born as a jam band, the formation plays with the contrasts of sharp song outlines and free improvisation. Own compositions, free improvisation and jazz standards are intertwined; sound arcs rise up, uneven beats rumble across them while chord patterns flash up.
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