Vital Weekly
FØRSTEPERSONENTAL+1 - Christian Windfeld, Tobias Meier
2018

Christian Windfeld is a Danish improviser, composer and percussionist, educated at The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, Denmark. I don’t know much about his activity. He was part of the Aarhus-based trio Admiral Awesome. And also of the Flamingo-trio with Chris Heenan (clarinet) and Adam Pultz Melbye (double bass). With this trio he released recently their second album, released by Relative Pitch Records. Another trio he is involved in is Kolonihaven Unikum that released an album on the label established by Windberg, Lydhor records. For his solo-activity he uses the moniker Forstepersonental (= ‘first person singular’) and released two albums in 2014 and 2016. And now a single is out that recorded in collaboration with Swiss saxophone player Tobias Meier. Recorded in a hayloft in Appenzell and in a dense industrial zone in Zürich in June 2016. Meier is a saxophonist and composer based in Zurich involved in projects like Im Wald, Things to Sounds, Cold Voodoo, etc. Listening to their single, they had a very fruitful musical meeting. Condensed, short improvisations with Windfeld playing small percussion and Meier using extended techniques producing in a very communicative dialogue. They have a minimalistic approach, limiting themselves to ‘small’ sounds. But the short textures they create this way, are very rich and full of ideas by an intense interplay of subtle movements by both players. The environmental sounds (traffic) in the background are absolutely not disturbing for the listening experience. By the way, good idea to make a release of improvised music in the single-format. That is not often seen. (DM)