premiere april 23 2014
With Trygve Seim and Harmen Fraanje we play our first concert on April 23 at the Unterfahrt in Munich. Stay updated for the coming news and concerts…
magic sound stalagmites
With ambiq we are planning a release tour for this coming fall. The release concert in Berlin will be on May 9 at the XJazzfestival @ Radialsystem V.
open source music
Klaus Gesing, Björn Meyer and Samuel Rohrer build a new trio since March 2013. After a few concerts in Germany, Switzerland and Iran, they just got an invitation for Beirut, Lebanon, to attend the Beirut & Beyond Festival 2014. There are also plans to return to Iran this year. Besides that they will record their first album this year.
ambiq – out on arjunamusic and iTunes
Since last Friday our debut is officially released. You can get a copy or a download HERE or find it on iTunes.
over and over again
In that very moment, when flying becomes as natural as being strongly connected with the ground, you understand how little you need to do. Or how much. Nothing. And everything. To take space or to offer. To switch between action, reaction or being the observer. And the receiver. For inviting and sharing possibilities. Over and over again.
new band announcement/new demo
Samuel Rohrer “codes of nature” – w/ Trygve Seim & Harmen Fraanje
A promissing trio is on its way. Trygve Seim on tenor sax, Harmen Fraanje on piano and Samuel Rohrer had their first meeting for a demo recording last August in Berlin. More events will come up soon.
ambiq – new release on arjunamusic
The release of ambiq, the new group with Max Loderbauer on buchla200e, Claudio Puntin on clarinets/electronics and Samuel Rohrer on drums/electronics gets closer. The release will be on February 14. The official prerelease we will celebrate at the WDR Jazzfestival on Fabruary 1st 2014. as official premiere of the band.
First tour
The first small swiss tour with Klaus Gesing on bass clarinet, Björn Meyer on electric bass and Samuel Rohrer on drums was a wonderful start of a new journey. Some more concerts will take place in February 2014 in Iran, Austria and Germany.
New Release November 15
“from the inside of a cloud”, recorded live in Munich, with Daniel Erdmann, Vincent Courtois & Frank Möbus, will be released on arjunamusic November 15
Noreia at the Leipzig Jazzfestival 2013
“If jazz first and foremost means the desire to surprise, Samuel Rohrer’s Trio Noreia could be considered one of the top acts of the 37th Leipziger Jazztage festival. In unusual instrumentation with percussion, baritone bass guitar and clarinets, varying sound patterns were magically created that transcended and broadened horizons. From the silence, Rohrer and Claudio Puntin, the two Swiss living in Berlin, let their sumptuously exciting cineastic sound grow with luxuriant power against the dark string magic of the Icelander Skuli Sverrisson.”…
Leipziger Volkszeitung 7.10.2013