samuel sacher
News and future projects
Spring 2010
As Sacher is now in Zagreb, Vjestice are playing again.
One of the first gigs was in Ost Klub in Vienna.
Just finnished the music for the documentary film "A Hundred years of the Ethnographic Museum Split".
Beginning of 2010
Work on the documentary TV-series "With Mario to infinity", about the life and work of late Mario Saletto, begins.
The recording of the album "Tranzicija" is nearly finished.
Autumn 2009
Kyma
Sacher has finally got his hands on Kyma. He immediately canceled his trip to Portugal, and dived into reading a over four hundred page manual. You won't see him around for a while.
As he is staying in Zagreb for a winter, the "live" album of Vjestice, with working title "Tranzicija" should be completed.
Hopefully he'll be able to use Kyma on the studio album as well.
He has also started to compose music for the documentary "Badnjica u Cisti", with assistance of Jurica Jelic.
In the documentary there is a field recording of a very exotic local vocal technique called ganga. It remains to be seen if either Kyma or Melodyne will be able to analize the voicing in case the ears don't suffice. Sacher's plan is to make a SCL scale out of it, to be able to dis-tune synths.
Spring 2009
New album
Sacher has finished recording a new album of about 30 songs with a new line-up of his band "Vjestice" (Miljan Bakic, Boris Leiner, and himself.).
Many people have appeared as guests: Danko Buric, viola, Ivana Curkovic, violin, Samir Kadribasic, bass, Robert Lovric, flutes, Mateo Martinovic, piano, Hrvoje Niksic, keyboard, Janko Novoselic, drums, Jura Novoselic, sax, Assish Roy Nimai, tabla, Nikola Santro, trombone and Ratko Vojtek, clarinets.
To the dismay of his bandmates, while traveling through Europe he indulges in destroying his "beautiful songs". He applies granular resynthesis, spectral polymetric delaying, microtonality and some other song-molesting techniques.
Another album
The new line-up of "Vjestice" has also recorded the best of the old songs "live", with new arrangements, and some have different lyrics.
This project is waiting for Sacher to come to Zagreb for long enough to complete it.
New band
Samuel Sacher has formed a new band, »Sacher grupa« to explore music that in his hometown, Zagreb would be known as »biennale music«. Noise and poetry.
In his own words: »Vjestice are my day job, something like a lifelong companion, or a wife with whom I allready have grandchildren, and Sacher group is more like a young mistress, a breath of fresh air that middle aged men sometimes welcome in their lives.«
Other musicians playing in Sacher group are:
Jurica Jelic, fretless guitar
Nimai Roy, tabla
Hrvoje Niksic, electronics
Samuel Sacher on stage, photo by the photographer unknown to the artist