New York’s legendary vocalist Shelley Hirsch, known for her fearless improvisations, vocal storytelling, and boundary-pushing performance art, joins forces with one of the most exciting rhythm sections emerging from the Swiss and Austrian Alps: Christian Weber (double bass) and Alfred Vogel (drums & percussion). Hirsch’s unmistakable vocal world—shifting effortlessly between song, spoken word, noise, character shifts, and pure sonic exploration—meets the razor-sharp intuition of Weber and Vogel, two musicians celebrated for their adventurous interplay and dynamic versatility. Together, they create an electrifying trio that navigates between improvised music, experimental soundscapes, and unexpected lyricism. This collaboration brings Hirsch’s New York avant-garde roots into dialogue with Alpine energy and precision, resulting in a performance that is as daring as it is deeply human—unpredictable, humorous, raw, and always alive. A meeting of three uncompromising voices in contemporary improvised music—unmissable for anyone drawn to bold, forward-thinking sound.

More info about SHELLEY:

Hirsch has appeared at festivals and concert halls and museums on five continents and has performed at the Kitchen, Roulette, BAM, and many other venues around and beyond New York City. She appears on numerous recordings of John Zorn, Elliott Sharp a.m.o. and is an active artist in the field of improvisation, performance art, since the early 80ies. Shelley was multiple awarded of high profil institutions.

about CHRISTIAN:

He performs with many ensembles all over the world. Current projects include a trio with Ellery Eskelin on saxophone and Michael Griener on drums, WWW with Michel Wintsch piano/synth & Christian Wolfarth drums as well as a duo with Joke Lanz on turntables. He is also performing regularly with ensembles for contemporary composed music, filmmusic, theatre and dance productions as well as with the post-punk-dada band Sudden Infant. In 2003 Weber received the cultural award for arts of the city of Zurich. From 2007 he was a lecturer at the universities of Basel, Berne and Lucerne. He holds a professorship at the latter since 2022.

about ALFRED:

Vogel is one of the driving forces in todays european improvised contemporary music field. Besides being an outstanding distinct and high energetic drummer in many styles he is running the festival www.bezaubeatz.at as well as the BOOMSLANG RECORDS label. He has been playing with musicians like Leo Genovese, Camila Nebbia (EYES TO THE SUN), Luis Vicente (BEZAU BEATZ ORCHESTRA OF GOOD HOPE), Barry Guy, Mats Gustafsson, Liuadas Mockunas, HANG EM HIGH and many others.