Stockhausen: Tuierkreis & Schwartz: The Neon Pterodactyl [CD]

"[T]he world's greatest female jazz singer, Sophie Dunér." - Art Music Lounge"Dunér is a high-octane performer who thrives on visceral contrasts, rhythmic changes, and simmering intensity. Startling vocalese. A weirded-up Anita O'Day." - MusicWeb International"She not only fits the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, but seemingly all of the desperate fear and unbridled joy of human existence into everyextraordinary lyric." - Jazz da GamaKarlheinz Stockhausen was the innovative, controversial leading figure in postwar German music - an electronic music innovator - a creator of multidisciplinary works combining theater, dance, music and multimedia whose works delved into matters spiritual, mythical, and interstellar. He influenced The Beatles, Miles Davis, Brian Eno - and Swedish jazz vocalist Sophie Dunér, who studied for two summers at Stockhausen's legendary music courses.In her newest release and Urlicht AudioVisual CD debut, Sophie, together with acclaimed new music pianist Steve Beck, deliver their unique jazz interpretation of Stockhausen's zodiac-inspired and most accessible work, Tierkreis with vivid character and virtuoso vocal flourishes, in an exciting and accessible program coupled with American composer Francis Schwartz's witty and colorful The Neon Pterodactyl.