Pascal Niggenkemper

bassist - composer


Described by the New York City Jazz Records as "one of the most adventurous bassists on the scene” and by the Chicago Reader “genius for sound exploration” Franco-German bassist and composer Pascal Niggenkemper creates music bluring the lines between improvised, pure sound, and experimental music with a distinct musical language.

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Pascal Niggenkemper





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Pascal Niggenkemper writes the music for the climate catastrophe
Tobias Lehmkuhl in FAZ about the CD ‘.Kipppunkt’

“He has definitely found something unique which is both exciting, different and totally uncompromising.”
Tor Hammerø about 6CD boxset ‘blòc’

“Once we recognize that ‘la vallée de l'étrange’ is one of the most fascinating double bass solos of the last twenty years” 
Ettore Garzia in Percorsi Musicali

"one of the most adventurous bassists on the scene” New York City Jazz Records

“genius for sound exploration” Chicago Reader


...”Talking Trash, est un disque troublant qui nécessite de s’immerger totalement pour donner du sens à ce que l’on entend. Le son peut être politique ; c’est la certitude qu’agglomère ce Septième Continent.”... Frankie Barriaux dans citizenjazz (ELU Citizen Jazz)

…”Trash with a groove, trash that sings the blues.”… Todd McComb's Jazz Thoughts about the CD ‘talking trash’

A true work of a double bass poet, sonic explorer and adventurer (and mad scientist), who revisits and reinvents his - and ours - relationship to the bull fiddle. Eyal Hareuveni in freejazzblog about the CD ‘la vallée de l’étrange’