© Alexander Beierbach

BROM – Beierbach / Roder / Marien

Alexander Beierbach – tenor & soprano saxophone
Jan Roder – bass
Christian Marien – drums

Whether in concert, in rehearsal or in the studio, the Berlin trio BROM is at work together – comparable to a collective artist’s workshop in which the three of them are busy modeling or carving a sculpture. Tenor saxophonist Alexander Beierbach, double bassist Jan Roder and drummer Christian Marien have been playing together in this band for around 15 years. In numerous concerts they have developed their own unique way of combining composed and improvised music. read more

The basis is Alexander Beierbach’s open compositions, which result in a wide variety of musical tableaux. In combinatorial play, composed parts and free improvisations constantly meet anew; they overlap and reassemble in a different context – the same material can appear in the light of the most diverse moods and styles. New free spaces open up in the compositions, while clear structures emerge in the free improvisations. Each concert thus follows its own logic, and a different, collectively designed sculpture is created each night.

The development of this playing concept can now be retraced on three CDs: The debut album there, released in 2013 on gligg-records, was followed in 2018 by Cardboard Sea on the musicians’ own label Tiger Moon Records, on which also their latest CD A Night and 43 Seconds has now been released.

COMING SOON (to be released June 2024):
BROM – Beierbach / Roder / Marien
A Night and 43 Seconds (TMR 014)

CDs

PHOTOS

all concert photos © Frank Schindelbeck

PRESS

African Paper (www.africanpaper.com) – April 2019 – A. Kaudaht about “Cardboard Sea”
“Without rest, new goals are constantly being set off, ambiguous beautiful mood details are explored. … The fact that all of this never really gets out of the way and always finds new directions shows how well the trio is in tune with each other.”

JazzPodium – October/November 2018 – Rainer Bratfisch about “Cardboard Sea”
“… lyrical, with carefully balanced arches, played virtuoso, exciting and always good for surprises.”

The Free Jazz Collective (www.freejazzblog.org) – September 2018 – Martin Schray about “Cardboard Sea”
“What never falters is the freshness of his compositions.
… A very atmospheric album that matures the more you listen to it.”

SONIC – September 2018 – Hans-Dieter Grünefeld about “Cardboard Sea”
“BROM takes the liberty of deciding for itself and intuitively whether the notes or the situation has priority. The band has succeeded in discreetly presenting this aesthetic blurring in many colorations.”

Jazzthetik – September 2018 – Angela Ballhorn about “Cardboard Sea”
“The Berlin based Trio explores the various possibilities of the saxophone trio. Almost without exception, the compositions are by Beierbach, and it can be seen that the trio has become even more familiar and well-rehearsed over the years.”

BAD ALCHEMY – September 2018 – Rigo Dittmann on “Cardboard Sea”
“It is the charm of poetry that makes even papier-mâché swing, and finally Beierbach `sings´ Vian à la Gandhi once more.”

taz-Plan – 28.06.2018 – Tim Caspar Boehme about “Cardboard Sea”
“Together with Jan Roder on bass and the drummer Christian Marien, Beierbach relies on discreet overblowing and finely chiseled melodies, which Roder and Marien play around with varying pulse frequencies.”

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