Mathieu Schneider – Inside Out (CH)

Mathieu Schneider, flûte

“Incredible“, “impressive“, “I am speachless“… These are some of the numerous comments posted of the YouTube users, having viewed the videos «Beatboxing Flutes Loops», published by Mathieu Schneider. On these sutnning recordings, one discovers the flutist who, with the use of a «looper», records in real time, and plays on his own loops, layer after layer. In this way, he transforms himself into a flute ensemble. With his flute, he is able to imitate a bass or a set of drums.
But these videos represent only a glimpse on Mathieu Schneider’s talent. Soloist of the jazz ensemble «Inside Out», malicious virtuoso in the humor quartet «Les Gais Lutrins» or de luxe sideman for the saxophonist Georges Robert, he has also written and interpretated the sound tracts of various shows. Recognized and praised pedagog, he is professor at the «Conservatoire de musique neuchâtelois», in the classical and jazz departments, and in the jazz department of the «Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne» (HEMU).
Possessing a solid classical background, Mathieu Schneider and transcended this into a resolutely personal and original style. Thanks to a very rythmical playing and the voice effects, this unparalleled improviser offers an assertive approach of the instrument, contrasting with the «lovely» way of playing often reproached to the jazz flutists.
He plays the conventional flute in C, and also alto and bass flutes. As tireless experimentalist, he was among the first musicians in Switzerland, since 1988, to adopt the EWI (Electronic Wind Instrument), a sort of electronic saxophone that allows to control the breathing by computer. As opposed to this, without a flute on a beach in Toscany in August 2011, he has made a flute out of a reed, and has obtained an excellent primitive flute, that connects him to a material and acoustic prehistorical reality. He shares his organic  and spellbinding sound of this improbable instrument on stage and on youtube..

Olivier Nussbaum, Double Bass

All through his career this double base player has had the opportunity to work with quite a few jazz groups ranging from duo to big band, and also in around twenty or so multimedia creations, whether this be in Switzerland or abroad ( France,Italy , Belgium, Germany, Austria, England,Poland, Mauritius, Canada and Cuba.) either on stage or in the studio, playing with exceptional musicians.
After having acquired a solid training and experience as electric base guitar player, he became very enthusiastic about the acoustics of the this instrument and it’s many aspects , so he developed a line aimed at the essentials of enhancing the intuitive and spontaneous aspects of his playing.
His fascination with the different facets of composition, improvisation, and sound research are  the ingredients which feed his daily approach to music.

As from 2005 he has worked with developing innovative projects together with the strings instrument makers Duvoisin & Co. What’s more he is backed by an agreement with the European importer Ace Guitars for Warrior Base Guitars, the Swedish manufacturer of EBS amplifiers and the American Strings Company GHS, recognizing his presence beyond Swiss frontiers.

He has played in many important International Festivals such as :

International Festival Jazz Plaza in Havana, Cuba – Montreal International Festival of Jazz, Canada – Euro Pop Days, Freibourg Im Brisgau, Germany – The International Festival of University music – FIMU- in Belfort, France – The Avignon Festival, France – The Francosonic Festival in London UK.

With various formations, in Switzerland and abroad, he has played alongside, on stage and in the studio, such artists as ,the Beninois Lionel Louke, the Canadians Charles Papasoff, François d’Amours, Jean Pierre Zanella, the British Dave O’Higgins and Steve Grant, the German Wolfgang Obert, the Frenchman Denis Leloup, the  Yugoslavian Stepko Steve Gut, the Russian Arkadi Shilkloper,  and the Swiss Thierry Lang, Mathieu Michel, John Voirol, Popol Lavanchy, Jean-François Bovard  , Emilien Tolk, Alain Tissot, Mathieu Schneider,Serge Kottelat, Marcos Jimenez, Julien Monticello, Michel Zbinden, Claude Berset,Lucien Dubuis, Maurizio Peretti, Jacques Dittisheim, Christophe Bertet, Teddy Bärlocher, Hans Koch and Mattias Ziegler, to name but a few…….

In 2008 he brought out a solo album and put together a multimedia project (Naïma) with the group Anyma and Size.
He has toured with different shows and groups including Corpus, Grand Reportage Ensemble, Blue Groove Syndicate, Alias trio and the Conservatory Big Band, among others.

Olivier Nussbaum teaches base guitar and double base at Neuchâtel Music School and the Geneva Music High School, for whom, at the Neuchâtel site ,he runs workshops for free and jazz improvisation and didactic studies of improvisation and groups.
In the private sector he also leads workshops of improvisation and creativity.

Serge Kottelat, guitar

In 1975 after playing over and over and wearing out his favorite disc ,a recording of “Made in Japan” by Deep Purple, Serge Kottelat, guitar player, decided to follow the path of his idol Ritchie Blackmore, he bought an electric guitar from a mate and 10 days later, …..he bashed it against his bed….!
Today he no longer demolishes his guitar, however he invests, with the same ardour, in his music.

Modern jazz has, little by little encroached upon the hard-rock,but each time he picks up his guitar it’s like an electric thunderstorm .
From 1980 to 1992 with Sacrifice and Jade, he played numerous concerts and Festivals in Europe, especially the Eurockéennes de Belfort (F) in 1989 and 1992, a Maxi LP, an LP, a CD, a video clip shot in London and gallons of hard working sweat.

Since 1991 he played with the Sextet Art Ensemble , which became Inside Out in 1993.

As ever many concerts and Festivals including Montreal in 1996 and Montreux in 1997, tours in Canada in 1995 and ’96, and also England in ’96. , the Balkans in 2003 , 5 CD’s and lots of tales to tell !!

At the same time he was performing other concerts with various groups and had a few appearances on other friends CD’s. He has played with Thierry Lang, Matthieu Michel,Alain Caron,Charles Papasoff,Simeon Shterev,Sylvain Beuf, Eric Seva, Jean-Pierre Zanella, John Voirol, Hans Koch,Julien Monticello, Popol Lavanchy, François d’Amours, Dave O’Higgins,Denis Leloup,Jean Pierre Schaller,Olivier Nussbaum, Le Schindou, and many more, unfortunately for them, lesser known musicians.

Alain Tissot, drums

From 1982 to 1987 Alain studied percussion at the Chaux de Fonds Conservatory of Music in the class of Jacques Dittisheim,furthering his drum studies with Vinnie Colauita, Joey Baron, Dave Weckl, Jojo Maier etcetera.

He is the accredited drummer with Inside Out, Argentieri-Borey-Tissot UNITRIO, Tissot-Papaux Drumming Duo, Alain Roche Trio, Blue Groove Syndicate, Mildred, Frédéric Recrosio.

He has played by the side of Teddy Bärlocher, Alain Caron, Big Band of Lausanne, The Drummers ( an octet run by Pierre Favre ), Lionel Loueke, Damien Argentieri, Fred Borey, Thierry Romanens, Eric Séva, Sylvain Beuf, Marco Figini, Charles Papasoff, Denis Leloup, François D’Amours, Matthieu Michel,Patrick Muller, Marcel Papaux, Christian Baader, Hans Koch, Jean Pierre Zanella and others.

He has composed many jazz pieces, for theater and ballets, and percussion groups, a concerto for vibraphone and orchestra .

At the present moment Alain Tissot teaches  at The Jurassien Conservatory and Music School (EJCM) in Delémont and also in the Jazz department of the Chaux de Fonds Music Conservatory.