With their strange mix of hardcore rock, free improvisation and contemporary composition Steamboat Switzerland toured Europe and Northern America since 1998 very successfully. Making optimal use of their varied musical educations and careers, the trio traced the ancestry of Swiss Art Brut master Adolf Woelfli (1864-1930) and developed their musical language in the direction of spontaneously confronting multi-idiomatic modules - descending from on the one hand (post-)serialistic structures and on the other noise-core power grooves - with free textures.
They perform at festivals, in concert halls and in museums of contemporary art in various contexts including Jazz, Rock, Avantgarde, Improvisation and New Music. Their first CD Live (Unit 4104, 1998) was received very well. Besides the usual concept of written structures interacting with impovised textures, their current repertoire features British composer Sam Hayden's tremendous composition 'dB[I-VII]' (premiered at Gaudeamus 99).
Steamboat Switzerland received the Music Award 2000 of the City of Zurich and last year released two new CDs Budapest and 'ac/dB[hayden]', both on the Cologne-based label GROB.

Musicians
Steamboat Switzerland
Prepared amplified piano, KORG MS 20, Leslie speaker:
Dominik Blum (1964, Switzerland)
Prepared amplified classical guitar:
Marino Pliakas (1964, Switzerland)
Drums, percussion:
Lucas Niggli (1968, Switzerland)

Credits
Hans Martin Müller and Christian Heck of Loft/Cologne, Dan Suter of Echochamber/Zurich, Peer Seemann

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