Konzert: Jošt Drašler & Cene Resnik & Eric Arn & Vid Drašler | Bneleti (Ben Wheeler)

Improvising quartet:

Jošt Drašler - acoustic bass Cene Resnik - tenor saxophone Eric Arn - electric guitar Vid Drašler - drums

Dieses Improvisations/Free Jazz–Quartett ist eine Zusammenarbeit zwischen den slowenischen Musikern, Vid Drašler – Schlagzeug (DKD-Trio, trójnik, Orchester Senza Confini, Orkestrada), Jošt Drašler – Akustikbass (DKD-Trio, Orch Senza. Confini, Jani Moder Trio, Vito marence Gruppe ..), Cene Resnik – Tenor Saxophon (Cene Resnik Quartet, trójnik, Watch for dogs–Trio, Orch. Senza Confini) und Wiener-Ami Eric Arn - E-Gitarre (Vienna Improvisers Orchestra, Alle Formen Trio, Mieryela ensemble) Dies ist ein Forschungs-Quartett. Sie versuchen Melodien zu umarmen, alle Arten von Klängen und Rhythmen, jedoch keine Strukturen. Sie spielen am schmalen Grad, wo ihr musikalisches Material wahrnehmbar, greifbar, aber auch zerbrechlich bleibt. Somit fühlen sie sich involviert an der Profilierung eines musikalischen Handwerks in einem der großen kreativen Bereiche neuer Musik. Das Ziel ist es neue Erfahrungen, und neue Verbindungen in andere Teile Europas, zu schaffen.​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoJayPn7tUE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOjL7V6fiN8

Bneleti (ბნელეთი) is a solo project by Ben Wheeler, an experimental musician, composer, and ethnomusicologist based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Performing with an electric guitar, saz, and modular synthesizer, Wheeler integrates his impressions of the music of Caucasus, particularly Azerbaijani traditional music and Georgian polyphony, with dark ambient, drone, and experimental composition, and the aesthetic of Seattle hardcore and black metal, creating a musical world that is beyond genre classifications.

His first full-length release under the moniker “Bneleti” is set to be released in February 2026 on Inverted Spectrum Records, and will be followed by a three-week tour of Central and Eastern Europe.

Ben Wheeler is the co-founder of Mountains of Tongues, a project dedicated to preserving and promoting lesser known music from the Caucasus region. He has recorded songs in languages that have rarely been caught on tape, instruments that only exist in extremely small numbers, and performances from a variety of underrepresented ethnic, religious, and linguistic minority communities throughout the region. He is also the Senior Editor of EastEast, a journal that covers culture and society in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus, and the founder of the Caucasus All Frequency festival. He is an instructor on synthesizers at Creative Education Studio in Tbilisi. Besides his Bneleti project, Wheeler also published under his own name, composed music for multiple independent films, performed and written for a diverse selection of bands, and worked as a music director and composer.