Alan Purves & Mark Lotz in an emotional roller coaster full of imagination
A meeting in music by two free spirits on the top of their game. Percussion and surprising sound objects meet the family of of flutes and electronics.
Two modernists in a quest for reinvention. Music which is sensual and moving.
Purves & Lotz love to play with the emotions of the audience. They give the audience a hint of an emotion, but just to surprise with another. They will be responsible for tears and laughter.
Music that sparkles with imagination. Free of conventions, continuously balancing on the edge of the eve of discovery.
Offene Ohren (Germany)
“They tell an insane story.”
Jazznu (On Jazzfest Amsterdam)
“Created perhaps the most surprising performance of the day.”
WAZ (Germany)
“A royal pleasure as anything else by Mark Alban Lotz and Alan Gunga Purves, who made the jazz carousel spin.”
Freie Klänge
“Completely new listening experience and imagination. Mysterious gentle melodies … What can be heard, however, is an almost spiritual experience: … “
KRO Passagio (The Netherlands)
“Hypnotic as Sirens. Haunting music!“
Longplay (Poland)
“Takes us to an alternative reality, created by music we have never known before.
His Voice (Czech Republic)
“Full of imagination and full-hearted emotions.”
The Whole Note (Canada)
“Intriguing!”
All About Jazz (USA)
“Let’s see—Campfire music? Check. Star gazing music? Check. Dance music? Check. Dream music? Check. Road music? Check. That’s Food Foragers.“
New Eurasian Improvised Music (Taiwan/Dutch/German)
Highly explosive meeting of two young Taiwanese musicians with Lotz/Purves/Duo.
Line up
Li Li-Chin • sheng
Shi-Yang Lee • piano, melodica
with Mark Lotz & Alan Purves
Alan Gunga Purves
toy carroussels, wee shakers, sruti boxes, dadabells, hemarimbas, claxons, toy horns, brim bram, balacone, bones, whirlie pipes, tin whistles, clock chimes, frame drum, wee frying pans, etc
Mark Alban Lotz
piccolo, c-, alto-, bass-, pvc contra bass flutes, Indian Bansuri, prepared flute, voice, bird/game calls, fx
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mark2019-02-20 21:09:202019-05-06 12:30:09WAZ 2018Performances a.o. at the Zomer Jazz Fiets Tour, Vers Festival, Offene Ohren München, Grounds, Jazz Festival Amsterdam. They made music for early French experimental film (Jean Epstein, Man Ray) at Eye-museum Amsterdam.
Concert performances often combined with a solo set by Lotz and Gunga or a workshop/masterclass.
Purves and Lotz collaborated earlier in Lotz Of Music, Global Village Orchestra, the Kamil Erdem Quartet and released duet recordings on two Lotz Of Music CD’s. Both released highly acclaimed Solo CD’s.
Lotz/Purves Duo also performed with guests: Goncalo Lopes (clarinets), Jörg Brinkmann (cello), Alfredo Genovesi (guitar, analog effects), Anton Goudsmit (guitar), Leszek Hefi Wisnowski (flute), Pau Sola Masafrets (cello), Kenzo Kusuda (dance)
Scottish drummer/percussionist Alan Purves was dreaming of playing drums but no money to afford them, Alan build his own instruments since his early childhood. Within the years now proudly carrying one of the titles: ‘Professor Of Squeakology. His setting contains next to various drums, tin whistles up in his nose, feet and mouth, rubber toys, as well as self made instruments like the Brim Bram.
Alan played and recorded with such as: Ernst Reijseger, Palinckx Brothers, Sean Begin, Joe Williamson, Wolter Wierbos, Tobias Delius, John Zorn, Valentin Castrier, Sardinean choir and makes music for Werner Herzog.
“Alan Purves is a musician who makes unique music in a phenomenal way.” (Moors Magazine, The Netherlands)
Raised in Thailand, Uganda and Germany my appetite for musical adventures takes me all over the globe. Always on the lookout for vibrant collaborations with unique voices in music, far from conventional, hitting the essence and celebrate life.
I deliver a sound, giving my instrument dimension and depth and I love to casually shatter any stereotypes around the flute. My solo recitals in contemporary music, interpretations of Afro Cuban religious folklore, West African Fula music and Turkish free improvised music especially gained much international acclaim.
Obsessed by music I use my voice to reach a world beyond. I surrender completely to artistic expression.
Professor for flute at the Utrecht and Rotterdam Conservatories.
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