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Olga Witte
She is a jazz pianist and church organist, and she plays Balinese gamelan. Witte's knowledge of Balinese gamelan is based on longterm ethnomusicological fieldworks in the period 2005-2020. When Olga Witte is in Bali she lives in and takes part in different gamelan groups in the area Kecamatan Sukawati. Olga Witte composes music that explores the dynamics between experimental jazz, contemporary music and Balinese gamelan, and has presented her experimental organ music in Denmark as well as abroad. She also composes and arranges for other groups such as Travelling Tribes, KALAHA and Aarhus Jazz Orchestra.
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"...is Olga Witte the Jon Lord of our time? Just a thought! The woman with the largest instrument of the day had composed Onkel Alberts Rumtid, inspired by a children's book of the same name [The time and space of uncle Albert by Russell Stannard] and his theory of relativity. And here the hymn dust was seriously blown out of the organ pipes in a frighteningly violent intro. One imagined the sound of the creation of the world, followed by Vogel's alto sax, which as a fresh sprout in the silence after chaos symbolized the origin of life
Thelonious Monk
piano
Kit Downes
keyboards
