Chris Speed - sax. (USA)
Bojan Z - p./fender rhodes (YUG)
Matt Penman - b. (NZ)
Dejan Terzic - dr. (YUG)

"Geboren in Banja Luka, aufgewachsen in Nürnberg, Professor in Bern - der Kosmopolit Dejan Terzić gehört zu Europas renommiertesten Schlagzeugern und Bandleadern. Sein neues Album ist ein brillanter Meilenstein seiner Biografie." (Jazzthetik)

"Rhythmische Virtuosität,rasche Tempi, minimalistische,sich wiederholende Patterns,frei
schwebende Teile. PROMETHEUS besticht durch ausdrucksstarke Komposition, durch Biss, durch
Präzision. Chris Speed, Bojan Z, Matt Penman und Dejan Terzic wirken im Zusammenspiel
unzertrennlich."
(Jazzthing)

With Prometheus CAM JAZZ makes you set off on a journey through the unlimited expressive options of drums. Your tour guide here is Dejan Terzić , a German drummer of Bosnian origin who plays in quartet with Chris Speed on sax, Bojan Zulfikarpašić on piano and Fender Rhodes and MattPenman on bass, to disclose an amazingly rich expressive realm, made of assorted moods, energy,strength, impressive depths of sound as well as hypnotic ostinatos.Dejan Terzić wrote all of the compositions on this record: his band-mates have risen to the challenge,weaving a wide-ranging, appealing plot with him. From the opening track, “Prometheus”, passing through “Red”, “Addiction and Subtraction” and “Sundance” all the way to the closing track, “NewPa- rasomnia”, listeners will enjoy free improvisations, explosive rhythmic arrangements, dreamy interludes. Music moving from cheerful to passionate, from passionate to free, from free to structured, from structured to sweet, from sweet to outspoken, from outspoken to amusing, from amusing to inward-looking. Underlying this project is an extremely robust jazz, made up of key contributions, meetings, all-round musical life, which results in a fresh, novel, distinctive, irresistibly dynamic jazz. A high profile band, then, for a work which in title and in execution seems to represent a daring challenge to the music gods. Terzić is most obviously promethean in that he seems to have stolen fire and harnessed it. Few contemporary drummers, even the flashiest, give such a sense of controlled burn. Every piece here seems to settle round the rhythms that he establishes, which seem to come from jazz, rock, folk forms and more abstract locations, but all fused together in a singular musical imagination.

Chris Speed (b. Seattle, Washington, 1967) is an American saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He stu- died classical piano from the age of five, and began clarinet at eleven. In high school he took up the tenor saxophone and began studying jazz. He later attended the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Speed has lived in New York City since 1992. He leads or co-leads the groups Pachora (with Jim Black, Skúli Sverrisson, and Brad Shepik); Human Feel (with Andrew D‘Angelo, Black, and Kurt Rosenwinkel); yeah NO (with Black, Sverrisson, and Cuong Vu); and Trio Iffy (with Ben Perowsky and Jamie Saft). The latter two groups predominantly feature Speed‘s compositions. Well-known avant-jazz groups Speed has performed with are Tim Berne‘s Bloodcount (with Berne, Jim Black, Michael Formanek, and sometimes Marc Ducret); The Claudia Quintet (with John Hollenbeck, Matt Moran, Ted Reichman and Drew Gress); Jim Black‘s Alasnoaxis (with Black, Sverrisson, and Hilmar Jensson); and The Clarinets (with Oscar Noriega and Anthony Burr). The Collaboration with Dejan Terzic began in 2003 with Dejan’s former Band Underground.They have re- leased 4 Albums together.
www.chrisspeed.com

Bojan Zulfikarpasic started playing piano at the age of 5. As a teenager, he started playing in bands on Belgrade jazz scene, where he received an award as the Best Young Jazz Musician of Yugoslavia award in 1989. In 1986 studied with Clare Fischer at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. He was influenced by the traditional Balkan music playing in an army orchestra during his military service in former Yugoslavia, which would influence all his subsequent work. He moved to Paris in 1988, playing with Noël Akchoté, Julien Lourau, Magic Malik, Marc Buronfosse, Henri Texier and other renowned French musicians. In 1993, he recorded the debut album with his Bojan Z Quartet with Label Bleu, followed by Yopla!. In 1999, he was engaged in multi-ethnical project Koreni (Roots) with musicians such as Karim Ziad from Algeria, Kudsi Erguner from Turkey, and Vlatko Stefanovski from Macedonia. His solo piano album Solobsession (2001) brought him wider worldwide recognition. On Transpacifik (2003) he started collaborating with American jazz musicians Scott Colley and Nasheet Waits, and continued on Xenophonia (2006) with Ben Perowsky and Ari Hoenig, as well as Frenchman Remi Vignolo. He often uses the combination of acoustic piano with Fender Rhodes electric piano, often playing them simultaneously, and recently is claimed to be the inventor of „Xenophone“, a hybrid instrument, based on the customized Fender Rhodes electric piano. It can be heard on Xenophonia. In 2002 Bojan Zulfikarpašić was granted the title of Chevalier de l‘ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and received the Prix Django Reinhardt for Musician of the Year from the French Académie du Jazz, and in 2005 he was granted the European Jazz Prize as the Best European Jazz Musician. www.bojanz.com

Matt Penman Originally from New Zealand, Matt Penman moved to the U.S in 1994 to attend Berklee College of Music, and in 1995 to New York, where he maintains an international performing, recording and teaching schedule as one of jazz music’s most in-demand bassists. He is an established member of the SFJazz Collective, an 8-piece composer’s collective devoted to pre- senting the original works of its members as well as arrangements of the jazz greats‘ oeuvre. The Collective features some of the finest composer/improvisers on the scene, including Mark Turner, Stefon Harris and Miguel Zenon. In 2009, Matt founded a collaborative quartet with Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks and Eric Harland called James Farm. The band released their debut album in 2011 on Nonesuch Records. In addition to his main projects, Matt performs regularly with John Scofield; in trio and in quartet with Joe Lo- vano. He is a member of Nils Wogram’s Root 70, and Breve, a drummer-less trio with Hayden Chisholm and John Taylor. Other collaborators have included Kurt Rosenwinkel, Kenny Werner, Dave Douglas, Chris Cheek, Seamus Blake, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Guillermo Klein, Rebecca Martin, Nicholas Payton, Fred Hersch and Madeleine Peyroux. As a teacher, Matt has led workshops throughout Europe, and was an Artist- in- Residence at the Brubeck Institute in Stockton, California in 2007. He was also on the faculty of the 2009 Banff Workshop for Creative and Improvised Music. Matt‘s projects as band-leader include the co-led album ‘Flipside’ (Naxos, 1998), ‘The Unquiet’ (2001) and ‘Catch of the Day’ (2008), both on the Barcelona label Fresh Sound. He is featured on well over 100 recordings on various labels.
www.mattpenman.com

Dejan Terzic was born in Banja Luka in what was then Yugoslavia. His family moved to Germany when Dejan was 3 years old. He began playing piano at the age of 6, and took up drums at 12, playing art first in rock and funk groups. His induction into the world of jazz came through the back door. Listening to Sting‘s album „Bring On the Night“, he was grabbed by the playing of pianist Kenny Kirkland and saxophonist Branford Marsalis. It was at this point that his exploration of the world of jazz began in earnest. In the summer of 1991 Terzic journeyed to the Vermont Jazz Center, run by the legendary Hungarian guitarist Attilla Zoller. Attilla proved to be a major influence on Dejan, encouraging him, and clueing him in on the subtleties of group dynamics and improvisation. During the same summer Terzic became a member of New York‘s Drummer‘s Collective, where he studied with among others, Marvin Smitty Smith and Bill Stewart. Back in Germany, Dejan began studying at the conservatory in Wurzburg where he met up with drummer Bill Elgart, one of the most original creative players on the scene. Terzic‘s comment was, „... he brought me to some really different stuff...“ The next few years were hectic ones, filled with studies and gigs. His playing began to catch the ears of both musicians and the public - and his playing began to gather in the prizes - Young Bavarian jazz Lion 94/95, Best Drummer Krakow Festival 94, Best Drummer, Leipzig Festival 95, Best Musician, Interna- tional Jazz Festival Oberkochen, 95. Nuremberg Cultural Prize, 97. Jazzprice by the City of Munich in 2004.

ECHO Jazz Award as best national Drummer in 2014. After touring and recording numerous CDs for over 20 years, Dejan Terzic has become a very sought after and outstanding drummer on the European Jazzscene.In the years he has toured and recorded with Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, Bob Berg, Nils Landgren, George Garzone, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Lionel Louke, Gary Thomas, Roy Hargrove, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Franco Ambrosetti, Tom Harrell, Till Brönner, Marc Ducret, Mike Formanek, Jerry Bergonzi, James Moody, Antonio Farao, Django Bates, Palle Danielsson, Rita Marcotulli, Mark Helias, Chris Speed, Dusko Goykovic, Tim Hagans, Dominique Pifarely, Michel Godard to name a few. Dejan has become a mainstay on the European jazz scene. He has recorded over 100 CDs as a Sideman. In the last few years he started focussing on his own projects. These works also feature him as an composer of original music.
www.dejanterzic.com

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