Thomas Gansch & radio.string.quartet

When the core repertoire of a string quartet does not include the corresponding oeuvre of Beethoven, Schubert or Bartók, but instead the Weather Report hit “Birdland” is elicited from the strings, it is worth listening carefully. Whether Radiohead, “Strange Fruit”, a tribute to the Mahavishnu Orchestra, “Moon River” or the use of voice and electronics:

An ensemble that, like the radio.string.quartet, draws on such diverse sources of inspiration and resolutely defies narrow-minded genre categorisation is good for many a surprise. The creative jack-of-all-trades Thomas Gansch is well aware of this, with whom skilful border crossings and sound excursions of this kind find their counterpart. So there is no shortage of fuel for this exciting and rare encounter.