Ever since the brazen adventures of Airbass released in 2009 by the extraordinary bassist Gina Schwarz, she has strengthened her reputation as a musician and bassist of great repute. Since that release she has no limits to her explorations. Along the way, in a deftly balanced presentation of strikingly contrasting essays through her groups Jazzista and now Gina Schwarz Unit she offers beautifully turned, reflective and buoyant readings of sui generis works.

Gina Schwarz is a bassist with a deep knowledge of the bass. She is blessed with a natural ability for intertwining lines of colour and texture in a highly original manner. Her approach is well-formed and advanced, yet her style is fluid and deceptive, her growling, euphonious tone artfully leavening her logical but nonetheless oblique and unpredictable melodic thinking.

Outstanding drummer, winner of Echo Price 2017, Diego Pinera from South America is putting his stamp on the music and Schwarz’s long-time fellow musicians, guitarist Heimo Trixner, reeds player Fabian Rucker and keyboardist Philipp Nykrin add an updated, refined Viennese touch to the distinct, uninhibited drumming of Pinera. The clever, fast shifting rhythm section of Schwarz and Pinera is now embraced by open and intense interplay that simply calls to mess with the pulse – stretching it, mimicking it, beating it at its own game. The quintet charges Schwarz’s original compositions with passionate urgency, still folded in an emphatic interplay of the musicians.