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Close Links Magically Attracted Lips on Glass Overheated Rooms Shimmering (CD)The humming of transformer substations. Steps echoing in the hallway. A dog howling at satellites. In the distance, a train rattles past. Night in the city. Empty streets. Through an open window comes the sound of an old typewriter - a long overdue farewell letter written, but never sent. In the background, there is the crackling of a shortwave receiver. A voodoo priest stamps his foot. The neon sign over the bar across the road begins to flicker. The rhythmic beat of drums rises from the cellar next door. A woman’s voice makes contact with the sisters of the ancestral spirits. A saxophone sings a strangely gripping theme. On the door hangs a poster: SOUND/BODY/CELLS. In the park, the birds flock together. The animals are in control until a new day dawns.
The formation SOUND/BODY/CELLS, founded last year is made up of vocalist Ronni Gilla, drummer Denis Stilke and bandleader, composer and saxophonist Joachim Gies. This trio, playing unplugged, moves between the poles of deep, dark urban music and light, transcendental songs of the shamans, to reveal uncharted musical territory. Between loud and quiet, strong and gentle, this music merges with the space surrounding it. It is not cerebral music, nor an esoteric sound. It is music which, if you can open yourself to it, has the power to move intensely.
The Berlin-based members of the German-Israeli trio come from very different musical directions. Saxophonist Joachim Gies has worked with Cecil Taylor, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Johannes Bauer and Hanns Zischler, drummer Denis Stilke has played in metal, jazz and electronic formations, while vocal artist Ronni Gilla has explored the lyricism and depths of the human voice as a soloist with the Jewish-Arab Jazz Ensemble and in opera performances. All these different experiences flow subtly into the music of this trio to create something entirely new, as their new album “Shimmering” or their live concerts reveal. (Text: Red Current)
Biography / Ronni Gilla
Soprano and vocal artist Ronni Gilla studied in Israel at the Rimon College of Jazz and Contemporary Music and received her classical training at the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. She studied oriental singing and Arab music at the Jewish-Arab Cultural Center in Jaffa. She gave concerts of her own songs in Europe and Israel and was a soloist in musicals and opera productions. She was also a member of the Israeli Philharmonia Singers and a soloist in the Jewish-Arab Jazz Ensemble.
Through her multicultural family background with its Sephardic (Ladino) and Polish influences, Ronni Gilla developed a very individual and personal vocal style. For some years now, she has lived in Berlin and is now focusing on developing a form of contemporary vocal music which involves individual expression, different cultural layers, virtuosity and communication, movement and spatial presence.
Biography / Joachim Gies
Saxophonist and composer Joachim Gies was born in Bonn, and studied music, literature and politics in Berlin. His saxophone playing draws on extremely varied sound structures: delicate, richly coloured, even fragile. This experimental approach to listening and hearing presents audiences with unexpected layers of sound.
2009: Concerts in Tel Aviv (Israel); performance at the international music festival ROARING HOOVES (Mongolia); concerts at the Ulan Bator Philharmonic Hall, in the Gobi desert and in Buddhist monasteries. Shimmering, the latest CD by the trio SOUND/BODY/CELLS, will be released this fall.
2008: concerts in the Philharmonic Hall in Ulan-Ude (Republic of Buryatia, Russian Federation) with Buryatian artists. Performance with Israeli vocalist Ronni Gilla at the Literature Festival of the Berlin Academy of the Arts. 2008: performances in the Philharmonic Hall in Ulan-Ude (Republic of Buryatia, Russian Federation) with Buryatian artists. Performance with Israeli vocalist Ronni Gilla at the Literature Festival of the Berlin Academy of the Arts. Performance of musical scores of Franz Kafka in Tscheboxary (Chuvash Republic, Russian Federation) in October 2008.
2007: Film score for the documentary film produced by Deutsche Welle TV “Eine phantastische Reise oder Auf Wiedersehen, Cézanne!“ which was shown at the New National Gallery in Berlin.
CDs for Leo Records, including the 2007 recording of “Tenderness of Stones” with vocalist Lauren Newton. Scores published by Hermann Löffler Verlag, Ries and Erler in Berlin.
Productions of radio plays with Jörg Jannings, music scores for literary texts, musical accompaniment for readings by Tina Engel, Peter Fitz, Peter Härtling, Werner Rehm, Gerd Wameling and Hanns Zischler.
Concerts in Europe and Asia with Joëlle Lèandre, Lauren Newton, Cecil Taylor, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Johannes and Matthias Bauer.
Biography / Denis Stilke
Denis Stilke, born in Weimar in 1972, studied percussion in Berlin and Boston, USA. Since 1996 he has been working as a freelancer in the musical scene of Berlin and in different projects nationwide. His nuance way of playing is recorded on more than ten CDs.
He has participated in numerous international master class workshops with Jack De Jonette, Jim Black, Aldo Romano, Ed Soph and John Marshall, and collaborated in the international percussion project "Clave of Life" with (Cube; Gahna, D).
