‘Tungemål’ is Danish for ‘tongue’. For the Danish-Argentinean guitarist and composer Mark Solborg, born in 1972, this is a fitting metaphor for jazz and contemporary, improvised music of today. Working with chamber music textures, Solborg, together with Susana Santos Silva (trumpet), Simon Toldam (piano) and Ingar Zach (percussion, bass drum, ‘vibrating membrane’), develops his own language for improvisation, creatively opening up new spaces for discourse in order to exchange and discuss with his instruments. But how can you find a common language when you come from different cultural backgrounds and speak a completely different vocabulary? For Solborg and his quartet, the answer is simple: jazz and improvised music are polyglot and therefore universally understandable, allowing them to play across cultural differences and come together in a unique symbiosis.
Susana Santos Silva – trp
Mark Solborg – gtr/efx
Simon Toldam – p/key
Ingar Zach – gran cassa/perc/vibrating membranes
