The Necks

Legendary improvisers, The Necks, have a worldwide following, but they return in 2010 as they do every year to honour their Australian roots.

Not entirely ambient, nor minimalist, nor jazz, The Necks create a music that is unique in the world today. Since their beginnings nearly 23 years ago, they have continued to craft an immersive, hypnotic, ritual-like concert experience that allows the listener to perceive the very fundamentals of music in a completely new light. As The Guardian (UK) said: “The Necks can find eternity in a grain of sand.” Their completely improvised concerts on acoustic piano, bass and drums have the room ringing with sound and the audience utterly mesmerized. A performance by The Necks is a transcendent, unrepeatable trip. 

"...Entirely new and entirely now...They produce a post-jazz, post-rock, post-everything sonic experience that has few parallels or rivals. They may teach us to listen in a new way, but they communicate a fierce energy and warmth at the same time. Their music is a thrilling, emotional journey into the unknown. Like seeing a world in a grain of sand, The Necks permit us to hear a whole new world of music in a sliver of sound"  THE GUARDIAN (UK)

"...transports the listener into an almost mystical state...sound journeys whose route led us not only through meditative valleys but also into loud, cacophonic mountains of sound, to die away on sleepy tonal beaches" TAZ BREMEN (BREMEN, GERMANY)

"a brilliant mix of the calculated and the spontaneous, which under constant fire develops an almost hypnotic effect that one cannot resist.. As a painter fills the screen with colour, so The Necks layer their music together. The individual processes pile up on top of each other, until after an hour's playing time- everything collapses, glowing in magnificent noise. Such a powerful demonstration of musical confidence has not been heard in a long time" DER TAGESPIEGEL (BERLIN, GERMANY)

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