MUSIC FOR ADVANCED FOOLS by BIERDÜMPFL / ŠVEJNAR / TANTANOZI
Over the last 30 years improvised music has taken so many shapes and forms, that makes it difficult to put it under one simple label. We are now in 2026 and it is still going.
''Music for advanced fools'' is a collection of 11 tracks that put a fold on different approaches, techniques, and momentarily lapses of unpredictable twists and turns. Three members of the ensemble:
Daniel Bierdümpfl - Guitar, FX
Marina Tantanozi - Transverse Flute, Bassflute, FX, Vocals
Jakub Švejnar - Drums, no input mixer, Vocals, Recorder flute, Radio are working really hard to lay down a great piece of that has all the qualities of diverse tonalities and diverse approaches to the instruments they are using. They get as much out of them as it is insanely possible and they excel at this.
How to treat this album? Definitely as a testimony that improvised music can be engaging and on the other hand it can be equally nuanced and sophisticated.
Improvising is a way of making music that strives to be
as open, as unconditioned, as sound-centred, as present and as process-oriented as possible.
It is less a musical method than a form of consciousness.
This album stands precisely at the boundary of all the subconsciously constructed cultural frameworks and is an attempt to break with the hierarchy of aesthetics.
This album is as much jazz as it is noise, and as much free improvisation, as much new music, as much punk rock, as much live sound design.
It is a conscious and playful exploration of all the historical and musical influences of the participating artists.
“…Ultimately, as Derrida (2016) reminded us at just the right time, it is not at all about preaching the abolition of the boundaries that unite and separate ‘language’ and ‘world,’ ‘persons’ and things, ‘us’ and ‘them,’ ‘humans’ and ‘non-humans’—reductionist simplifications and pocket monisms are as much out of the question as fantasies of fusion—but rather about ‘irreducing’ and ‘imperforating’ these boundaries, bending their dividing line (their successive parallel dividing lines) into an infinitely complex curve. It is therefore not about blurring contours, but about folding, condensing, distorting, iridescent, fractalizing them…” ( Eduardo Viveiro de Castro, Cannibalistic Metaphysics, Merve Verlag 2019, translated from portuguese to german by Theresa Mentrup —> quote translated to english )
This album is an appeal to us all.
Life consists of a multitude of states, emotions, and worlds.
Let's fold, condense, distort, iridescent, and fractalize boundaries for an exciting future of jazz!
credits
released May 15, 2026
Daniel Bierdümpfl - Guitar, FX
Marina Tantanozi - Transverse Flute, Bassflute, FX, Vocals
Jakub Švejnar - Drums, no input mixer, Vocals, Recorder flute, Radio
Recording, Mix & Master - Daniel Bierdümpfl
Album Cover - Severin Koller
Published on UNIT Records
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