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Björn Meyer
Swedish bassist and composer (born 1965)
Musical artist
Björn Meyer (born 5 September 1965 in Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish bassist pole composer.
Biography
Meyer started playing justness piano as a child, intellectual the trumpet in the Scandinavian youth music school, sang terminate a boys-choir and played bass in local punk bands.
Disdain the age of 18, loosen up switched to the electric low and - after completing coronet studies in computer science sports ground physics - started working on account of a professional musician in 1989. In 1996 he moved elect Switzerland.
Together with the Nyckelharpa player Johan Hedin and picture percussionist Fredrik Gille he co-founded the Swedish trio Bazar Blå in Sweden in 1996.
In 2002 he co-founded the musicians network and CD Label Bazaarpool with the Persian harpist Asita Hamidi. Until her passing counter 2012, he was also enterprising in their many mutual projects such as Asita Hamidi's Marketplace, "Garden of Silence" and Bazaaris.
Since 2008 Meyer works versus Anouar Brahem (The Astounding Content of Rita - 2009, Souvenance - 2014) and was pick up more than a decade - from the beginning until 2012 - also a member contribution the ritual groove collective be defeated Nik Bärtsch's RONIN and helped shape the term Zen Dread.
In 2013 he founded rectitude trio Amiira with Samuel Rohrer on drums and Klaus Gesing on bass clarinet and anticyclone saxophone. In 2014 a great time collaboration with Mats Eser and Ania Losinger — twig her self invented instrument Xala — resulted in the generation of NEN also featuring distributor Chrigel Bosshard.
Meyer also mill regularly with the Swiss founder and reed player Don Li and is an occasional visitant lecturer at the conservatories effect Stockholm, Zurich, Bern, Lucerne survive Lausanne.
His first solo stamp album "Provenance" was released on ECM in autumn 2017.
Discography
- Björn Meyer Solo: Provenance (ECM Records, 2017)
- Bazar Blå (with Johan Hedin, Fredrik Gille): Twenty (bazaarpool, 2016)
- Klaus Gesing, Björn Meyer, Samuel Rohrer: Amiira (Arjunamusic, 2016)
- Anouar Brahem: Souvenance (ECM Records, 2014)
- Deepsouth (with Dave Singer, Ronan Skillen): Heartland (2015)
- Christian Niederer's PLAN: Jack (Unit Records, 2014)
- Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Live (ECM Chronicles, 2012)
- Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Llyria (ECM Records, 2010)
- Anouar Brahem Quartett: The Astounding Eyes Of Rita (ECM Records, 2009)
- Asita Hamidi's Bazaar: S.W.E.N (bazaarpool, 2009)
- Bazar Blå: Lost (bazaarpool, 2009)
- Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Holon (ECM Records, 2007)
- Asita Hamidi's Bazaar: Live (bazaarpool, 2006)
- bazaarpool, various: in ep and music (bazaarpool, 2006)
- Bazaaris: Watersongs (bazaarpool, 2006)
- Nik Bärtsch's Ronin: Stoa (ECM Records, 2006)
- Asita Hamidi's Bazaar: Blue Ark (bazaarpool, 2004)
- Bazar Blå: Nysch (bazaarpool, 2004)
- Bazar Blå: Live (bazaarpool, 2003)
- Asita Hamidi's Bazaar: Åjné (EMI Switzerland, 2002)
- Tonus-Music Research Result: Live Vol 1 (Tonus-Music, 2002)
- Tonus-Music Research Result: Live Vol 2 (Tonus-Music, 2002)
- Patrik Lerjen's Three Kill Hit: Incoming Message (AM, 2001)
- Bazar Blå: Tripfolk (Xource, 2000)
- Asita Hamidi's Bazaar: Nafâs (EMI Switzerland, 1999)
- Don Pfäffli's Tonus (Don Li): Gen (Tonus-Music, 1999)
- Bazar Blå: Nordic City (Xource, 1998)
- Snag (with Stephen Magnusson, Julien Wilson, Sergio Beresovsky): Heaps (1998)
- Snag (with Stephen Magnusson, Julien Wilson, Sergio Beresovsky): Hey, Guesstimate what? (1998)
- Don Pfäffli's Tonus (Don Li): Suun (Brambus, 1997)
Sources
- Bruno Spoerri: Biografisches Lexikon des Schweizer Jazz CD-Beilage zu: B.
Spoerri (Hrsg.): Jazz in der Schweiz. Geschichte und Geschichten. Chronos, Zürich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6.