CD ‘Pendant La Nuit’
Mark Lotz
A collaboration between Mark Lotz and theater director Eric de Vroedt for the soapera Pendant la Nuit. Music created for the theater show features night music in solo, duo, trio, and quartet settings by flutist/composer Mark Lotz and his wide-awake ensemble. Dynamic performances blend playful improvisations with tender, wry, and lively moments, ranging from dusty tribal sounds to amusing kitsch.
“Can’t say enough good about this one either. Lotz, as ever, wields an estimable selection of flutes and melodic hooks (first time out of the mailing envelope, I played the opening, highly Stravinsky-esque ‘Cowboy Game’ eleven times in a row before I went on to the next track.” (Jazz Now, Ken Egbert, USA)
“Here you hear how to make the most beautiful music within the most unthinkable instrument setting.” (Brabants Dagblad, The Netherlands)
“… they demonstrate no small amount of ingenuity.” (All About Jazz, USA)
Mark Alban Lotz (piccolo, c-, alto-, bass-, PVC contra bass flute, vocals)
Edwin Berg (piano, prepared piano, melodica, charlie (e organ), vocals)
Eric Surmenian (bass, vocals)
Frederic Jeanne (drum set)
Alan ‘Gunga’ Purves (percussion set, harmonica, water cymbals, bells, wooden spoons, snare and low pitch drum, baby marimba, mini thumb piano, vocals)
Sonic Squid Music
Catalogue number 2024.08
(Former LopLop Records 2005 release, catalogue number LLr 017)
Recorded september 2004 in Zeist, The Netherlands
Produced by Mark Lotz
Artwork by Frauke Erichsen
Mixed by Marius Beets
Jazz Magazine, Ken Vos – rated four stars, The Netherlands
“Spontaneous improvised miniatures and elaborate songs.”
All About Jazz, USA
“… they demonstrate no small amount of ingenuity.”
Draai om je oren, The Netherlands
“A varied and easy to listen too album, much more than merely a decor for a theater play.”
Uni Magazine, Czech Republic
“Pendant La Nuit changes between subtle jazz and ethnic tuned chamber music – intimate melodic’ness up to passionated sound sculptures. Cowboy like playfulness to introvert dream’ness. A happy album. Challenging to unproblematic listing but maintains it’s high musical quality.”
Jazzflits, , The Netherlands
“Pendant la Nuit is the kind of CD you set your CD player on repeat and let it play a whole evening.”
Jazz Now, Ken Egbert, USA
“Can’t say enough good about this one either. Lotz, as ever, wields an estimable selection of flutes and melodic hooks (first time out of the mailing envelope, I played the opening, highly Stravinsky-esque ‘Cowboy Game’ eleven times in a row before I went on to the next track).”
Jazzdimensions, Germany
“The music is as iridescent and colorful as the biography of multiflautist Mark Alban Lotz. A collection of great miniatures … toy instruments and ‘objects trouvés’ make ‘Cowboy game’ a sound jewel.”
Brabants Dagblad, Rinus van der Heijden, The Netherlands
“Here you hear how to make the most beautiful music within the most unthinkable instrument setting.”
