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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6CD boxset blòc, subran music - compiles highlights of my 2017-2022 musical journey

CD1 : vèrs revèrs - subran01

suite for 8 voices & solo double bass drawing on texts in occitan by Jaumes Privat
Voix en Rhizome & Pascal Niggenkemper

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CD2 : levar lenga - subran02

9 musicians, 2 dancers and a poet set into the wild around texts by Privat & Pieyre

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CD3 : le 7ème continent .Kipppunkt - subran03 (2nd cd of the ensemble)

collapsing container ship music for double trio or tripple duo

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CD4 : Pascal Niggenkemper la vallée de l’étrange - subran04

a face to face between a double bassist and an autonomous augmented double bass in octophonic setting

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CD5 : have you ever wondered -subran05

chamber music for carillon, trumpet, voice, electronics & double bass

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CD6 : beat the odds - subran06

music for 2 cellos, 2 double basses, amplifiers and motors

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‘look with thine ears’, clean feed records

 


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 le 7ème continent, ‘talking trash’, clean feed records

  

 
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 PNTrio : CD ‘urban creatures’ JHM 188 & Konnex KCD 5214

 

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collaboration:

baloni : LP ‘Ripples’, CD ‘Belleke’ & CD ‘Fremdenzimmer’ clean feed

‘miner’s pick’ Heberer - Niggenkemper, FMR

PascAli ‘suspicous activity’ creative sources



as a sideman: (selection)

John Butcher + 13 fluid fixations, Weight of Wax

PANG! Sophie Agnel - Ben LaMar Gay - Sam Pluta - PN, the bridge session

Imaginary Numbers : Joe McPhee - PN - Ståle Liavik Solberg, Clean Feed Records

Ingrid Schmoliner’s watussi: ‘listen closely’ April 2013 & Stargazers, Klein 

Gerald Cleaver’s Black Host: ‘Life In The Sugar Candle Mines’ Northern Spy Records

Caroline Pook, the Pookestra - HERZKOPF dances

Larry Ochs The Fictive Five: CD Tzadik & CD Anything Is Possible Clean Feed

from wolves to whales
CD’ from wolves to whales’ & CD ‘Strandwal’ Aerophonic Records LP ‘Dead Leaves Drop’, Dropa Disc

Thomas Heberer‘s clarino:
CD ‘cookbook’ red toucan 2012;‘LP klippe’ NoBusinessRecords & clean feed

Morris/Carlberg/Niggenkemper/Gray: Cosmopolitan Greetings, Red Piano Records

Harris Eisenstadt’s Canada Day IV, Songlines / Quartet Live / On Parade In Parede CF

Gebhard Ullmann’s Basement Research 'hat and shoes', between the lines

Yoni Kretzmer ‘PROTEST MUSIC’ outnow recordings 

Frank Carlberg Quintet: Word Circus, Red Piano Records

Frantz Loriot Systematic Distortion Orchestra The Assembly outnow recordings

Carlo Costa's Acustica, Neither Nor records

Carlo Costa minerva: ‘saturnismo’ between the lines

Alan Bjorklund’s ‘Amygdala History Lesson’ 577 Records

Douglass Bradford: atlas obscura fresh sound new talent

Scott Fields : Seven Deserts, new world records

Jean-Brice Godet – Lignes de Crêtes, cleanfeed

Carate Urio Orchestra ‘Lover’Sparrow Mountain’ Klein

HNH & HNH II clean feed records

Joe Hertenstein‘s polylemma: ‘polylemma’, red toucan