Sylvie Courvoisier / Mary Halvorson Duo

Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and guitarist Mary Halvorson's experimental debut album "Crop Circles" was released in 2017, and its follow-up "Searching for the Disappeared Hour" was even more focused and multi-layered, optimally aligned with this duo's nearly limitless possibilities. Courvoisier and Halvorson are celebrated musicians who move between the improv scene, free jazz and new music. In their formations, it is always a matter of breaking up well-rehearsed patterns, of using deconstructive methods to tease something out of the players that has so far remained hidden from them in their own actions.

This has something shimmering, sometimes confusing, and the listeners are given an exciting task: to think together construction and negation as a process, to listen to the harmonies in their decomposition, to understand the unfamiliar as a utopian search for another language - in short: as a great adventure.