Peter Scharli - Rumrum (2020)

Almost 30 years ago it wasn't a project, but rather a “Manha De Carneval” with Dom Um Romão at the Berimbao or a “Temayimisasa” with an African percussion team. From then on, however, the Swiss trumpeter Peter Schärli collected duo recordings, which brought him together sparsely instrumented with drums of various kinds. Many come from their own environment, from Maris Egli and Fredi Flükinger to Fredy Studer, some are internationally known, such as Gerry Hemingway, Pierre Favre or Tony Marsh. Schärli's approach tends to be elegiac, he loves fanfare-like, high-contrast breaks, the free flow of lines. As a double album, “rumrum” is on the one hand the documentation of an experimenter and on the other hand a sketchbook of austerity, to which an inner glow of communicative attention gives acoustic power.