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    Lucas Niggli

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    Lucas Niggli

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    Lucas Niggli Drums, Percussion, Komposition

    Lucas Niggli (1968) musiziert als Schlagzeuger und Perkussionist im Grenzbereich von improvisierter und komponierter Musik.

    Zu seinen aktuellen Formationen gehรถren STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND (mit Dominik Blum und Marino Pliakas), Biondini - Godard โ€“ Niggli, KALO YELE (mit Aly Keรฏta), das Duo mit dem Sรคnger Andreas Schaerer sowie verschiedene Formationen von und mit dem Bassisten Barry Guy.

    Urauffรผhrungen von den Komponisten Felix Profos, Michael Wertmรผller, Olga Neuwirth, David Dramm, Helena Winkelmann, Barry Guy ua.

    Seine Konzertreisen fรผhrten ihn durch die ganze Welt und an viele renommierte Festivals, von Donaueschingen bis Capetown, von Vancouver bis Lucerne Festival.
    Seine musikalischen Partner sind oder waren Nils Wogram, Barry Guy, Kalle Kalima, Maya Homburger, Fred Frith, John Cale, Pierre Favre, Elliott Sharp, Matthias Loibner, Erika Stucky, Wu Wei, Flea, Xu Fengxia, Tim Berne, Paul Plimley, Melvin Gibbs, Fritz Hauser, Aly Keรฏta, Corinna Harfouch uvm.

    Er arbeitete mit Herbert Fritsch am Schauspielhaus Hamburg in der Produktion Valentin, in versch. Musiktheater Produktionen (ua Staatsoper Hamburg, Lucerne Festival).

    Seine Diskographie umfasst 50 Titel, davon 17 CDs als Leader und Komponist, zumeist auf dem Label INTAKT Records.

    2018 erscheint seine erste, vielbeachtete Solo Produktion ALCHEMIA GARDEN.
    Er hat verschiedene Festivals kuratiert ( ua TAKTLOS Zรผrich 2018) und organisiert seit 2003 die Konzertreihe PAM ( Platz fรผr Andere Musik , Uster).
    Er ist als Dozent fรผr Improvisation an der Zรผrcher Hochschule der Kรผnste (ZHdK) tรคtig.

    ENGLISH:
    Lucas Niggli
    Born in 1968 in Cameroon, he now lives with his family in Uster near Zurich (CH). As drummer and improviser, he plays in various bands including "Steamboat Switzerland" (with Dominik Blum and Marino Pliakas), He composes and generates concepts for his own band: Lucas Niggli ZOOM and BIG ZOOM, in a Duo with Xu Fengxia, the Drum Trio with Peter Conradin Zumthor and Fritz Hauser or BEAT BAG BOHEMIA (his Drum Quartet) and plays regularly with Barry Guy, Maya Homburger, and Pierre Favre, Andreas Schaerer, in a trio with Luciano Biondini and Michel Godard, as well in a Band with Aly Keรฏta and Jรผrg Wickihalders BEYOND.
    He toured all over the world including Festival-performances (Vancouver, Berlin, Willisau, Moers, Saalfelden, Le Mans, Donaueschingen, Bath (UK), Capetown a.m.o.). He has performed the works of contemporary composers (Olga Neuwirth, Helena Winkelmann, Sam Hayden, D. Dramm, M. Werthmรผller) and taken part in several crossover projects with such musicians as Butch Morris, Stephan Wittwer, Sylvie Couvoisier, Trevor Watts, Fred Frith, John Cale, Hans Koch, Peter Kowald, Phil Minton, Samuel Nori, Tom Cora, Ikue Mori, Xu Fengxia, Michel Portal, Flea, Urs Leimgruber, Erika Stucky, Susanne Abbuehl, Arkadij Shilklopper, Wu Wei, Michel Portal, Andrew Cyrille and many others. He teaches at the University of Arts in Zurich, ZHdK and is promoter of a concert series for contemporary music.

    Publication

    Diskografie Lucas Niggli (1968)

    STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND, Terrifiying Sunset
    ( fรผr die Ausstellung in LA / Gagosian von Albert Oehlen ) , Vinyl, Trost Records, 2022

    Desiree Meiser / Lucas Niggli Duo : Frรผhlingsopfer // Gedichte und Prosa // Gertrud Leutenegger // Schweizer Fonogramm // 2021

    STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND EXTENDED // ORANGE SLICE (2000) by David Dramm

    Keรฏta Brรถnnimann Niggli KALAN TEBAN, Intakt Records, 2020

    Lucas Niggli Solo Alchemia Garden, Intakt Records, 2018

    Barry Guy and the Blue Shroud Band Intensegrity (5 CD Box), NotTwo Recrods // 2018

    Charlotte Hug Lucas Niggli Duo // Fulguratio // Sluchaj Records // 2018

    A NOVEL OF ANOMALY ( Schaerer Biondini Kalima Niggli). // Act Records 2018

    BEYOND (Jรผrg Wickihalder, Barry Guy, Lucas Niggli) Intakt Records, 2017

    Barry Guy , The Blue Shroud Band, Intakt Records, 2016

    Barry Guy The Blue Shroud Band, Tensegrity ( 4CD Box!), NotTwo Records, 2016

    Keรฏta - Brรถnnimann โ€“ Niggli, KALO YELE, Intakt Records , 2016

    Large Ensemble, Hochschule Der Kรผnste Bern / Michael Wertmรผller / Lucas Niggli / Django Bates // Terrain!Terrain! Pull Up! Pull Up!, Neos Records, 2016

    Le Miroir Du Temps / Michel Godard // A Serpents Dream // Intuition Records, 2015

    Lorenz Raab Quartet, Impassioned, UNIT Records 2015

    Schaerer Niggli Duo, Arcanum, Intakt Records . 2014

    SCHAERER NIGGLI DUO, Try-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met, Jazzwerkstatt 2013

    BIONDINI-GODARD-NIGGLI, MAVรŒ, Intakt Records, 2013

    SHARP - GIBBS โ€“ NIGGLI, Crossing The Waters, Intakt Records, 2013

    STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND, Zeitschrei, Trost Records, 2013

    STEAMBOAT SWITZERLAND EXTENDED, Sederunt Principes d.b. records 2013

    Plimley โ€“ Guy โ€“ Niggli, โ€žHexentrioโ€œ, Intakt Records, CD 206, 2012

    Biondini โ€“ Godard โ€“ Niggli, โ€žWhat is There What is Notโ€œ, Intakt Records, CD 185, 2011

    Lucas Niggli Drum Quartet โ€žFellowship Of The Drumsโ€œ a Film by Martin Fuchs.
    Intakt Records, DVD, 2011

    Lucas Niggli BIG ZOOM, โ€žPolisationโ€œ, Intakt Records, 2011

    Lucas Niggli ZOOM meets ARTE Quartet, โ€ž CRASH CRUISEโ€œ, Intakt, 2007

    Lucas Niggli BIG ZOOM, โ€ž Celebrate Diversity, Intakt Records, 2006

    Lucas Niggli ZOOM Ensemble, SWEAT Intakt Records CD 093. 2004

    Lucas Niggli Big ZOOM, โ€žBig Ballโ€œ, Intakt Records, CD 083, 2003.

    Lucas Niggli ZOOM, โ€žRough Rideโ€œ, Intakt records, CD 082, 2003

    Lucas Nigglis ZOOM, โ€žSpawn Of Speedโ€œ ,Intakt records, CD 067, 2001

    Xu Fengxia Lucas Niggli Duo, โ€ž BLACK LOTOSโ€œ, Intakt Records 2009

    Lucas Niggli Drum Quartet โ€žBEAT BAG BOHEMIAโ€œ, Intakt Records, 2008

    Lucas Niggli โ€“ Peter Conradin Zumthor, โ€žSpiegelโ€œ , Edition Therme Vals, 2012

    Lucas Niggli โ€“ Peter Conradin Zumthor โ€žPROFOSโ€œ, Not Two Records, 2009

    Lorenz Raab Quartet, Expanded Unit Records, 2011

    Felix Profos FORCEMAJEUR, Lingua Mortuorum, ZHdK Records, 2011

    Demierrre-Guy-Niggli, โ€žBrainforestโ€œ, Intakt Records, CD 107, 2006

    Steamboat Switzerland, Felix Profos, โ€žGet Out Of My Roomโ€œ, Grob, 2010

    Steamboat Switzerland, โ€žZone2โ€œ, Grob 2007

    Steamboat Switzerland, โ€žWerthmรผllerโ€œ, Grob, 2005

    Steamboat Switzerland, โ€žunknown songโ€œ, Grob, 7โ€œ, 2001

    Steamboat Switzerland, โ€žac/dB [hayden]โ€œ, GROB 316, 2001

    Steamboat Switzerland, โ€žBudapestโ€œ, GROB 315, 2001

    Steamboat Switzerland, UNIT Records, 1998

    Lucas Niggli &Sylvie Courvoisier, โ€žLAVINโ€œ, intakt records, 1999.

    Barry Guy, London Jazz Composers Orchestra, โ€žRadio Rondoโ€œ, Intakt Records, 2009

    Fred Frith, & Arte Quartet, โ€ž Big Pictureโ€œ, Intakt Records, 2009

    Pierre Favre, European Chamber Ensemble, intakt records, 2000

    Pierre Favres Singing Drums, intakt, 1997

    Susanne Abbuehl, โ€žCompassโ€œ, ECM, 2006

    Erika Stucky, โ€žSuicidal Jodelsโ€œ, Traumton 2008

    Erika Stucky, Princess, Traumton 2006

    Roots of Communication and Erika Stucky, Wonderland, 2004

    Border Meetings, โ€žPedretti-Grichting-Schรผtz-Niggliโ€œ, Altri Suoni, 2000

    Roots Of Communication, Al Valico dei Secoli, Esperia, 1998

    Acoustic Stories, Rahel Hadorn, Live At Moods, Red Note, 1997

    Roots Of Communication, โ€žPro Helvetiaโ€œ, UNIT Records, 1996

    Scholl-Erismann-Niggli-Frith-Koch-Kowald, โ€žNILโ€œ, UNIT Records, 1996

    Michael Gassmann Quartett, โ€žLiveโ€œ, UNIT Records, 1993

    Sainkho Namtchylak, โ€žLettersโ€œ, Leo Records, 1993

    Hoffmann-Niggli-Percussion, โ€žDrumscapes & Mute Songsโ€œ, CW 1993

    Kieloor Entartet, โ€žThe Red Light Fugueโ€œ, UNIT Records 1995

    Kieloor Entartet, โ€žA Good Dog Has A Day...โ€œ, UNIT Records 1992

    Kieloor Entartet โ€žNo More Beerโ€œ, Ex Libris 1990

    Plus Diverse Sampler.