ヨアヒム・バデンホースト Joachim Badenhorst　
マルチリード奏者（クラリネット、バス・クラリネット、テナーサックス等）
1981年ベルギー、アントワープ生まれ。ヨーロッパ、諸外国のエクスペリメンタル/インプロヴァイズドミュージックシーンで活動を行う。
ハーグ王立ジャズスタディで修士号を取得後は、時を隔てアメリカ、ヨーロッパの都市を点在しながら精力的に演奏活動やレコーディングを行う。
各地でのジャズや実験的な音楽、アーティストとの関わりの中でTony Malaby、Noel Akchote、Frantz Loriot、John Butcher と Paul Lytton のプロジェクトやHan Bennink トリオにも参加するなど、多彩な活動を展開している。
絶え間なく身体の内側からほとばしるような音のエレメント、その表現の幅はソロインプロヴィゼーションから彼が率いる大編成の即興集団Carate Urio Orchestraにまで至る。

Joachim Badenhorst (°1981 Antwerp) has been active in the experimental and improvised music scene in Europe and abroad for the past 15 years. Following his master degree in jazz studies at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, he has since divided his time between Belgium and cities in the US and Europe, collaborating and recording with jazz and experimental music ensembles and artists, such as Han Bennink, Tony Malaby and Noël Akchoté while incessantly exploring the visceral elements of sound. His output ranges from solo improvisation to leading large formations, such as his own Carate Urio Orchestra.

Badenhorst is artistically interested in integrating ideas from various different art medias into his musical compositions. He also takes deep interest in revealing the inherent relation between contemporary and traditional musics, having collaborated with traditional musicians from Turkey and Japan, and toured in China with reinterpreted traditional Chinese music.

In recent years, Badenhorst is contemplating the evanescent site specificity of sound as well as the relation between space and sound. In recent years, his work has taken a deeper focus on composition, namely that of computer­based composition and processing. Through continual research and experiment, he delves into a re­imagination of the boundaries between improvisation and composition, of abstract sound explorations and harmonic passage, and continues to attempt at a personal aesthetic language that interact with spaces and engage with different audiences.

Badenhorst appears on over 50 cd’s on over 10 record labels. In 2012, he launched his own label KLEIN, as a creative platform to initiate collaborations, experiment and play with unconventional design, and as an outlet for fringe musical projects.

Since 2010 Badenhorst has been developing his solo​programme consisting of improvisations and compositions for solo acoustic and electro­acoustic wind instruments. Badenhorst released three solo albums: The Jungle He Told Me (Smeraldina­Rima 2012) , Forest//Mori (Klein 2014) and Kitakata (Santé­Loisirs 2016).
Solo performance highlights include Météo Festival (France 2016), Mengi (Iceland 2015), Brussels Jazz Festival (Belgium 2015), Taktlos Festival (Switzerland 2015), Molde Festival (Norway 2014), Stanser Musiktage (Switzerland 2014), Orléans Festival (France 2014).

Badenhorst is a composer and performer of the ensembles:

​Carate Urio Orchestra​. This ensemble released the albums Sparrow Mountain (KLEIN,2013), Lover (KLEIN 2016), Ljubljana (Cleanfeed 2016).
Carate Urio performance highlights include Jazz Middelheim (2014), Brand! Festival (2015), Bimhuis Amsterdam (2015), Ljubljana Jazz Festival (2015), Gent Jazz Festival (2016) and tour of the east coast of the USA in June 2016.

The Icelandic quintet​Mógil​ released the albums Ro (Radical Duke 2008), I​ stilluni hljomar (Mogilmusic 2011), ​Korriro (Mogilmusic 2015). Mogil performance highlights include the Reykjavik Jazzfestival (2015), Dranouter aan zee (2012), Iceland Airwaves (2008 and 2012) Womex Festival (2009).

The acoustic duo Rawfishboys with French bassist Brice Soniano released the albums War (self­released 2005), ‘Piano works/worksnt’ (Spocus 2010) and an upcoming album for De Werf in 2017.

The acoustic trio​Baloni​(with Frantz Loriot and Pascal Niggenkemper) released the albums​ Fremdenzimmer (Cleanfeed 2011), ​Belleke (Cleanfeed 2014), Ripples (Cleanfeed 2015).
Baloni’s performance highlights include Meteo Festival (2013), Banlieues Bleues Festival (2013), Jazz Nevers Festival (2013), JIGG Lissabon (2014).

　
　
大上流一  Riuichi Daijo [Guitarist]
潮流や新奇性にとらわれない極めてプリミティブな即興演奏による音楽的アプローチを実践している。 2004年から2013年まで毎月planBで行われたソロシリーズ「Dead Pan Smiles」は、 独自の作業性を追求した定点ソロコンサートとして109回に及んだ。 2015年ソロシリーズ音源からの抜粋「Dead Pan Smiles」5CDboxをファーストリリース。 以降も水道橋Ftarriでの企画「Shield Reflection」等、平行して多様なミュージシャンとの共演を重ねる。 2019年に即興音楽のためのオルタナティブスペース「Permian」を開設し、主な拠点として現在も積極的に演奏活動を続けている。

Riuichi Daijo
Guitarist. Born in Yokohama, Japan in 1978.
started playing the guitar and soon came to concentrate on improvisation.
Since 2004 he had continued regular solo concerts until 2013 Sep, as an approach to delve into the workability of solo playing.
also he try to meet other musicians.