Christian Weber

bass

The Zürich born and based bassist Christian Weber is part of the steady working groups Mersault (with Tomas Korber (guit, elec) and Christian Wolfarth (dr)) , Wiesendanger-Weber-Ulrich (with Chris Wiesendanger (p) and D. Ulrich (dr)), WAL (with Joke Lanz (turntables) and Bruno Amstad (voc)), WWW (with Michel Wintsch (p) und Christian Wolfarth (dr)). His own Quintet‘s CD will be released in October 2006 on HatHut. The band consists of Hans Koch (cl), Michael Moser (vcl), Martin Siewert (lapsteel, electronics) & Christian Wolfarth (dr). Beside his work in the electro-acoustic & jazz field he‘s regularly playing contemporary composed music, theatermusic and filmmusic. Over the years he participated in a lot of projects like Sudden Infant, Die Welttraumforscher, Steamboat Switzerland, Collegium Novum, Big Zoom, Co Streiff Sextett, Momentum, EFZEG, releasing CDs on various labels like LeoRecords, Unit, Quakebasket, HatHut and cut. Christian Weber received for his works grants of the City of Zürich and ProHelvetia and in the last years he toured all over the world, playing on festivals like Jazz Meeting TelAviv, Hörgänge Wien, Jazzfestival Schaffhausen, Festival de Jazz Grenoble, Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, Uncool Poschiavo, Wien Modern, Moers Festival, LEM Barcelona, Taktlos Zürich, Visions Festival New York. He collaborated with Peter Kowald, Otomo Yoshihide, Irène Schweizer, Charles Gayle, Lol Coxhill, Günter Müller, Norbert Möslang, Jason Kahn, Elliot Sharp, Simon Nabatov, Evan Parker, John Butcher, Franz Hautzinger, Olaf Rupp, Stephan Wittwer, Lucas Niggli, Nils Wogram, Boris Hauf, Jacques Demierre, Martin Schütz, Phil Minton and others.