Ten Variations On An Unknown Theme

The music is interesting, almost academic,
Adam Greenberg

The BOX, outside of which this band almost always searches for sounds, together, against each other - creating tapestry and mood of exceptional quality. The three Zurich-based musicians (Claudia Ulla Binder, Dieter Ulrich, and Christian Weber - piano, drums, bass, respectively) are solid senders in the improvised music scene and have performed all over the European and Asian continents. Combining passion, emotion and intellect easily, they perform improvised music that reflects structure while still in the process of construction. Engineered by Martin Pearson (Keith Jarrett, Pierre Favre), BOX is the fifth recording in Origin's Zurich Series, a collection of improvised projects curated by master Swiss bassist Jonas Tauber.

Production Info:

Recorded by Martin Pearson at Radiostudio DRS 2, ZURICH, Switzerland
Mastered by Martin Pearson
Produced by BOX
Cover art by Edgar Conradi
Layout & design by BOX
Graphics by John Bishop

Reviews of Ten Variations On An Unknown Theme

All Music Guide (Adam Greenburg)
A trio of Swiss jazzers here combine for a series of entirely improvisatory jazz built in theory around a theme. That said, the theme is also unknown. The goal is to make improvisatory music while creating a theme by way of its variations. By circling in from the outside, the core form will eventually become clear. The players all perform well on t ...

Dijazz ()
Ten variations on a unknown subject jazz is the perfect title for a disc of free. The music improvised in Europe continues taking to unknown and magical places. Claudia Ulla Binder, that is masterful of piano and part of the scene free jazz of Switzerland, has been published by Origin Record. The teacher Caludia Ulla Binder, like so many musicians ...