Kārlis Auziņš - saxophones

David Helm (DE), Edvīns Ozols - double bass

Simon Olderskog Albertsen and Kaspars Kurdeko - drums

Double trio, where sonic meditation meets explosive energy. This ensemble performs a piece called “Equilibrium suite” composed by Kārlis, which was written specifically for this ensemble. The composition includes elements from contemporary, improvised and jazz music, combining conceptual rhythms and melodies influenced by traditional music of various nations with energetic passages and soundscapes in the realm of minimalism.
It is a modern-day ritual that encourages the listener to focus on introspection, absorb energy and at the same time find peace through this experience.

In 2024, this ensemble's concert was nominated for the Latvian radio LR3 Klasika TOP 10 as “Event of the Year in Music” as well as for the annual public media award “Kilograms Kultūras” in the winter vote.

Double trio music is recorded in a new album “Equilibrium suite”, released by “Jersika Records”.

Kārlis Auziņš - saxophones

Edvīns Ozols - double bass

Kaspars Kurdeko - drums

Konstantīns Paturskis - violin

Alīna Vižine - violin

Santa Lūcija Circene - viola

Jānis Rinkulis - cello

This project performs Kārlis Auziņš's four-part composition “String of Winds” that combines sounds of a jazz trio and a string quartet, creating a multi-layered musical world – from subtle dissonances to hypnotic rhythms.

Inspired by rhythms of Indian, African traditional music, the piece seamlessly moves between realities, fusing the traditional and the experimental, while reflecting on movements and patterns in the nature of Latvia.

In his solo Karlis explores the acoustic sound possibilities of saxophone, using them in both compositional and improvisational context. In the solo performances he strives to create a world which exists out of time and space. 

This duo with a great classical pianist Rihards Plešanovs performs "Still Nature" -

a musical piece for saxophone and prepared piano composed by Kārlis Auziņš.

Still Nature is a meditation, a fluctuation between conscious and subconscious, it is an observation of one's inner and outer worlds and impulses from them translated into sonorities of prepared piano and extended techniques of saxophone.
This composition is a continuation of my practical and compositional research within the sonic possibilities of saxophone, that was documented in my solo album "Oneness and The Transcendent Truth". In this case I also added (prepared) piano to create a different world of sounds coming from these two instruments and hopefully, through the unconventional paths, take the listener on a journey.
Performed

 

Latvian experimental jazz trio based in Riga. Here all three musicians explore the different universes of their original compositions composed mainly by Matīss and Karlis.

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Kārlis Auziņš - saxophone

Matīss Čudars - guitar

Ivars Arutyunyan

This is a quartet that plays music composed by Karlis, where compositions are a starting point for an improvisational journey.

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Karlis Auzins - saxophones

Artur Tuznik - piano

Joel Illerhag - bass

Simon Olderskog Albertsen - drums

Improvisational music or instant composition collective formed by four like-minded musicians. Their music is a journey into unknown tearing down barriers between jazz, the avant-garde, world music, rock and pop. This music isn't about genres. It's all about unity, equality, trust and communication.

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Karlis Auzins - saxophones

Lucas Leidinger - piano

Tomo Jacobson - bass

Thomas Sauerborn - drums