Home Stretch

Photo by Jamie Croft

​Philipp Gropper - tenor saxophone
Antonis Anissegos - piano
Dan Peter Sundland - bass
Steve Heather - drums
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Free jazz and new music composition techniques meld together in Home Stretch's deep, jangly grooves and intuitive dogmatism

Norwegian bass player Dan Peter Sundland has gathered three of Berlin's most prominent improvisers in his Home Stretch. The quartet combines chamber musical timbres and sensitivities with the immediacy and freedom of free jazz and improvised music through improvisations and Sundland's compositions.
Propelled forwards by Steve Heather's (The Still, Booklet) sensitively messy beats and Dan Peter Sundland's (MeoW!, Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus) distinct, electroacoustic bass sound, piano guru Antonis Anissegos (Christian Lillinger's Open Form For Society, Potsa Lotsa XL) and saxophone giant Philipp Gropper (Philm, Tau) perform a neck-breaking, swirling dance through deceptive 12-tone matrices, Morton Feldman-like clusters and layered tonalities.
The band connects through combining innovative intuition, deep listening and timbral awareness in what was already in their premiere concert described in the press as "near-perfect communication".
Home Stretch's first record was released on Portugese record label Creative Sources in 2016.

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"[...] the communication was next to perfect."
"[...] an original and wonderful [musical] expression"
- Jan Granlie, salt-peanuts.eu