Claus Boesser-Ferrari / Thomas Siffling
Duologix
Label: JAZZ´n´ARTS
Cat. No. JnA 5411
Release date: June 2011

Claus Boesser-Ferrari and Thomas Siffling provide their first concert in the national theatre in Mannheim. This concert will be a huge success; the "Mannheimer Morgen" praises from an "adventurous seafaring in the ocean of never heard sounds". Neither the available album "Duologix": The two musicians succeed in leading their seemingly different music styles together in an exciting way. Thus both musicians benefit from each other. On the one hand the trumpeter which is well known with Pop and Groove and likes it harmonious and round. And on the other hand the "Sound explorer".

Besides that it has also to be noticed that especially the otherwise bulky Sound explorer Boesser-Ferrari on "Duologix" provides his melodist in himself open space. Apart from that the project distinguishes itself from a wanted unclear role distribution which changes from part to part and sometimes even within a track. After the successful Live-Premier the two go in the area of the local forest "Odenwald" where a friend of both, Adax Dörsam, got his studio. Actually the three musicians planned also three days for the recording. Happily they needed only one and a half days. People who know former records of the both artists will hardly not hear the special scent mark in the track list: A interpretation of the Beatles-song "Come Together" can already be found on the current album "cruisen" from Siffling.

Boesser-Ferrari´s preference to filmings from Karl May and the used film music of it which is played by Martin Böttcher can be found continually in his whole discography. Furthermore on "Duologix" are some self-willed, very intimate and partly relaxed interpretations from foreign compositions like "Afro Blue" (Mongo Santamaria), "Ghost Town" (Bill Frisell) and "Coming Home" (Uli Wagner). Boesser-Ferrari explains the content of the Album: "The album is actually a mix of total improvisation, interaction from the current situation and other things which have been observed and shaped together." Particularly interesting are the four dialogues which operate under the title of "Dialoque". Boesser-Ferrari defines them as "sound sculptures which were created just from the moment".

Some parts of the album remind me to scenes when my mother talked to one of our neighbours: the moment when somebody catched his breath was used by the other one to say something. You can’t practice something like that!

The both musicians are very proud that it is possible to reproduce the surprising sound fullness of "Duologix". Apart from some "commercial stomps" (Boesser-Ferrari), the sound wasn’t manipulated. Moreover the album is free from samples and overdubs which make the essence from this meeting of the two musicians more intensive - this makes plenty of appetite for the coming Live shows.