Georg Wissel
Biography
Georg Wissel enjoys a largely autodidact education, where it has been quite natural -thanks to good old Wanne-Eickel´s tradition- that improvisation is a mean to develop musical forms, as well as to be form/music itself. So his collaboration with W.-E. trio "Pöhl Musik", recording and touring along with Jon Rose in Germany, France and Southamerica from 1986 – '88, left him an important mark.
Until the early 90s he spent several years playing a lot of different styles of music, including big-band-jazz, rock and punk, top 40 and the music he composed especially for his own trio "Salz" and which he calls 'nojazz'.
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Then he turned his artistic focus mainly towards Improvised music and meanwhile he is working internationally, performing solo or with ensembles/projects (together with …George Cremaschi, Michel Doneda, Gunda Gottschalk, Matthew Goodheart, Peter Jacquemyn, Hans-Jürgen Kanty, Misha Mengelberg, Joker Nies, Roland Ramanan, Yves Romain, Alan Silva, Nicolas Simion, "LIO"… in clubs and on festivals (e.g. "New Jazz", Moers; "A-Cute", Bremen; "Inaudible", Brussels; "Schumannfest", Düsseldorf; "Re Discover/O Ucesnicima", Belgrade; "Fracture-Festival", Liverpool; "Humanoise Congress", Wiesbaden; "Triennale", Köln; "Free Music Festival", Antwerp).
Furthermore, like as a negative/counterpart to improvisation, he concernes himself in composition, writing for stringtrio, chamberorchestra and solosaxophone.
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