Andreas Tschopp on The Jazz Standard with Brenda Sisane

For over twenty years, he has been one of Switzerland's busiest and most versatile voices on the trombone. Whether he is performing in the brass-percussion fire of Le Rex, the avant-garde precision of the Vertigo Trombone Quartet, or the celebrated South African-Swiss collective Skyjack, his music has always been about the play with the unexpected. But today, we are talking about a moment of profound solo clarity. After two decades of collective creation, he has released What If We Align Our Breath. a record that bridges continents, featuring the ancient resonance of South African kudu horns alongside flutes made by his grandfather forty years ago. It is a project born between Zurich and Johannesburg, mixed with the help of Shane Cooper, and grounded in the ethos of Ubuntu.