BROM - Beierbach / Roder / Marien

Whether in concert, in rehearsal or in the studio, the Berlin trio BROM is at work together - comparable to a collective artist's workshop in which the three of them are busy modeling a sculpture or carving a sculpture. Tenor saxophonist Alexander Beierbach, double bassist Jan Roder and drummer Christian Marien have been playing together in this band for around 15 years. In numerous concerts, they have developed their very own way of combining composed and improvised music.

The basis is Alexander Beierbach's open compositions, from which a wide variety of musical tableaux repeatedly emerge. In the combinatorial game, composed parts and free improvisations constantly meet anew; they overlap and reunite in a different context - the same material can appear in the light of the most diverse moods and styles. New free spaces open up in the compositions, while clear structures emerge in the free improvisations. Each concert thus follows its own logic, and a different, collectively designed sculpture is created each evening.

The development of this playing concept can now be traced on three CDs: The debut album there. released on gligg-records in 2013 was followed by Cardboard Sea on the band's own label Tiger Moon Records in 2018. The current CD A Night and 43 Seconds has now also been released there.

Alexander Beierbach - tenor & soprano saxophone
Jan Roder - bass
Christian Marien - drums