Buttercup Metal Jacques

Buttercup Metal Polish + Jacques Demierre
featuring: Buttercup Metal Polish (Nicolas Field, Alexandre Babel): drums
Jacques Demierre: piano, Michiyo Yagi: koto

Artist Information:

Buttercup Metal Polish

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A pair of nomadic drummers with loose ties to the Swiss city of Geneva and further bases in Amsterdam and Berlin, Nicolas Field and Alexandre Babel are the two halves of percussive pair-up Buttercup Metal Polish.

Under that moniker, Field and Babel set out for structured and semi-structured improvisations that yield to none of the canonized idioms of the avant-garde, bundling raw energy with purposeful virtuosity. The duo pulls no punches, whether it’s hitting the skins hard or scraping the eeriest of soundscapes from the bottom of its toolkit – as heard on their first album “50 Ballets”, released by the highly respected Creative Sources label.

Field and Babel have a long track record of collaboration in free music and noise (Maja Ratkje, Fe-mail, Jazzkammer, Keiji Haino, Phô, Peeesseye, K.K. Null, Fuckhead, Axel Dörner, Damo Suzuki, and many more) as well as in structured ensemble work (Berliner Ensemble, International Percussion Center). Both visited Super Deluxe in 2006 with different projects, improv-noise duo The Same Girl (Field) and experimental jazz outfit Gekko (Babel).

Jacques Demierre (piano)

Michiyo Yagi (koto)

free entrance after 11 pm & open for lounge until 2 am!!