Superimpose

Matthias Müller on trombone and Christian Marien on drums sound like what they are: a working band. They met in 2003 in Berlin, Germany’s capital of improvised music, and their collaboration resulted in the foundation of the duo „Superimpose“ in 2006. Since then they very consciously developing their music, using and at the same time questioning the full range of musical parameters such as dynamics, density, rhythm, sound, form and tonality. They take paths you can only discover after playing together for a long time with high intensity. The outcome is a raw music, at the same time brutal and peaceful, ugly and nice.

One major goal of their work as a duo is meeting and exchanging with other artists. Among others they collaborated with drummer Michael Zerang, trombonist Johannes Bauer, saxophonists Tobias Delius, Matthias Schubert, Frank Gratkowski and Jack Wright, guitarist Olaf Rupp, bassists Wilbert de Joode, Christian Weber and Clayton Thomas (with whom they have the trio “The Astronomical Unit”).

In 2007 they released their debut-CD “Superimpose” on the Portuguese label “Creative Sources”. In 2009 they released their second CD “Talk Talk” on the English label “Leo Records”.
 

Matthias Müller – trombone
Christian Marien – drums
 

Matthias Müller moved from Essen, where he had lived for ten years, to Berlin in 2004. He played together with many outstanding international improvisers and was a member of the “Deutsch-französisches Jazzensemble”, conducted by Albert Mangelsdorff, for many years. His CD “Bhavan”, released on “Jazzhausmusik” in 2004, was produced by musician and journalist John Corbett from Chicago. He played concerts in India, Russia, USA and many European countries.

Christian Marien lives in Berlin since 2000, studied jazz drumming in Amsterdam and Berlin. He is a member of many projects (Superimpose, The Astronomical Unit, Computerband, Miss Platnum), releasing CDs on labels like “Leo-records” or “Jazzwerkstatt” and playing all over Europe and the United States. A large focus is put on the collaboration with dancers, actors and painters to merge music with other forms of artistic expression. Especially within the project „Ritsche, Zast & Marien“ he is doing performances and creating exhibitions.

CDs:

sounds:

from the cds “Superimpose”, Creative Sources, 2007, and  “Talk Talk”, Leo Records, 2009:

Superimpose by matthiasm-1  

videos:

live in Basel 26/05/2009

live in Hannover, 09/04/2011

recorded by ddavid

concerts:

01.-14.10.2012 england & scotland
31.01.-04.02.2012 norway & denmark
23.10.2011 berlin, tag der posaune/schloss britz
16.07.2011 DK-aarhus, jazzfestival
30.04.2011 UK-edinburgh, grind sight open eye/st.cecilia’s hall
29.04.2011 UK-sheffield, mick beck’s house
28.04.2011 UK-liverpool, view two gallery/lost voices
27.04.2011 UK-oxford, folly bridge inn
26.04.2011 UK-london, arch 1, feat. ricardo tejero, ts
09.04.2011 hannover, atelier grammophon
08.04.2011 dortmund, plateau
07.04.2011 aachen, raststätte, feat. paul lytton, dr, and paul hubweber, tb
18.02.2011 hamburg, freitagsmusik/linker laden
28.01.2011 berlin, sowieso
21.10.2010 FR-strasbourg, stimultania
15.10.2010 ROM-sibiu, jazz & more festival
17.04.2010 berlin, ausland
01.03.2010 berlin, babette
14.11.2009 berlin, miss hecker
12.11.2009 essen, “free essen festival”, goethebunker
11.11.2009 dortmund, domicil, feat. simon camatta, dr/perc
26.05.2009 CH-basel, fim
24.05.2009 berlin, aufsturz, feat. peter evans, tp, and clayton thomas, b
22.05.2009 saarbrücken, künstlerhaus
13.04.2009 USA-new york city, bar 4, feat. nate wooley, tp
12.04.2009 USA-kutztown, eckhaus gallery
10.04.2009 USA-allentown, westwire studios, feat. stanley schumacher, tb, and evan lipson, b
09.04.2009 USA-allentown, westwire studios, feat. stanley schumacher, tb, and evan lipson, b
05.04.2009 USA-wilkes barre, st. stephens, feat. ron stabinsky, p
04.04.2009 USA-new york city, ibeam
21.12.2008 NL-utrecht, “u-ex”, sju jazzpodium, feat. wilbert de joode, b
20.12.2008 ludwigsburg, maxstrasse eins, “max.experimentell”
19.12.2008 wuppertal, ort
30.11.2008 AUT-wien, rote laterne
29.11.2008 AUT-wien, amann studios
13.06.2008 bremen, improvisationen 127 xxl, café grün, feat. nils gerold, fl
20.04.2008 berlin, aufsturz, double duo feat. johannes bauer, tb, and michael zerang, dr
30.03.2008 USA-new york city, abc no rio
29.03.2008 USA-washington dc, velvet lounge, spontanous infinity festival
27.03.2008 USA-philadelphia, bowerbird
26.03.2008 USA-kutztown, eckhaus gallery, feat. jack wright, as
23.03.2008 USA-new york city, goodbye blue monday
22.03.2008 USA-baltimore, red room
21.03.2008 USA-cambridge, studio 234, feat. eric zinman, p
20.03.2008 USA-lowell, 119 gallery
18.03.2008 USA-providence, as220
28.02.2008 berlin, kulturhaus mitte (solo & duo)
20.01.2008 dresden, atelierkonzert (solo & duo)
16.12.2007 berlin, bewohnbar
05.12.2007 essen, capribar, free essen festival
08.11.2007 berlin, 103club, feat. robert würz, as
03.11.2007 berlin, galerie zero
20.09.2007 berlin, stralau 68