{"id":34,"date":"2011-10-14T08:09:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T08:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sha-music.ch\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2019-01-30T14:28:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T14:28:41","slug":"press","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sha-music.ch\/?page_id=34","title":{"rendered":"Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[&#8230;] or, when saxophonist Sha steps out, like an acoustic version of Weather Report riffing off the theme to <em>The Twilight Zone<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jim Fusilli, <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His sax offers up soaring notes of purest silver.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sid Smith, <em>www.bbc.co.uk<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looking like an off-duty paratrooper with his khaki combat trousers bloused into his boots, reed player, Sha, provides a sinuous connective tissue with Bartsch or Meyer\u2019s melodic lines, that seems comprised of parping slaps and guttural rasps on the contrabass clarinet which provide a form of rhythmic ping-pong. Occasionally, or soaring, sustained alto sax notes are carefully deployed sending ripples across the surface. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sid Smith, <em>www.sidsmith.blogspot.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wails in on alto sax, like a banshee trying to charm a cobra.&#8221;<br \/>\nDan McClenaghan, <em>www.allaboutjazz.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sha tritt mit seinen Soli wie ein Krieger aus dem Schatten hervor.\u201c<br \/>\nPirmin Bosshard, <em>NLZ<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSha&#8217;s bass clarinet haloed everything in mysterious ambient soundwashes\u201c<br \/>\nStuart Nicholson, <em>The Observer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSha takes alto saxophone solos of the most outspoken sort.\u201c<br \/>\nNils Jacobson, <em>www.popmatters.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whenever the monosyllabically named Sha steps into the spotlight, the reed player evokes the modal improvisations of musicians like John Coltrane and Jan Garbarek.&#8221;<br \/>\nBrent Burton, <em>Washington City Paper<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[&#8230;] or, when saxophonist Sha steps out, like an acoustic version of Weather Report riffing off the theme to The Twilight Zone.&#8221; Jim Fusilli, Wall Street Journal &#8220;His sax offers up soaring notes of purest silver.&#8221; Sid Smith, www.bbc.co.uk &#8220;Looking like an off-duty paratrooper with his khaki combat trousers bloused into his boots, reed player, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sha-music.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sha-music.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sha-music.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sha-music.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sha-music.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sha-music.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/sha-music.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sha-music.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}