etienne nillesen

Some very exciting concerts coming up! September 20th: SOLO + w/ Elsa M’Bala, Paul Hübner, Hannes Siedl, Christoph Ogiermann, Oxana Omelchuk, Liz Kosack, Kamilya Jubran, Naoki Kikuchi and David Helbich in Frankfurt am Main (GER) at You Are Here!/ Palmgarten. https://www.facebook.com/events/633485367591083/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22surface%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22permalink%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D September 24th: w/ Maria Portugal (drums) and Sebastian Gramss (double bass) in Moers (GER) ___________________ October 8th: w/ Matthias Muche (trombone), Matthias Müller (trombone), Daniel Riegler (trombone), Rie Watanabe (grand casa) in Köln (GER) […]

Very excited about this record that will be released September 17th 2020 on IMPAKT records !! T.ON plays Matthias Muche T.ON is Matthias Muche – trombone, Constantin Herzog – double bass and myself -extended snare drum. The album has three pieces by Matthias Muche and was recorded april last year. Being part of this ensemble and recording this great music with two of my favorite musicians was absolutely amazing! This project means a lot to […]

Really happy to travel to one of my favorite cities again to play a concert as part of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival! Sunday July 12th 2020, 20:00h VARI presents: KøKö (DE/DK) KøKö is an exciting collaboration between the creative music scenes of Cologne and Copenhagen with several more concerts coming up in both cities. KøKö is initiated by VARI. I am playing the first set that evening in a trio with Matthias Muche and Zoe Efstathiou. Playing […]

New album EMISZATETT – PHYSIS is out now on Impakt Records ! Elisabeth Coudoux – Violoncello, Motor Matthias Muche – Trombone Robert Landfermann – Double bass Philip Zoubek – Prepared piano, Synthesizer Etienne Nillesen – Extended snare drum credits released June 17, 2020 All compositions (1.,3.,7.) by Elisabeth Coudoux Free improvisations by Emiszatett Recorded September 2019 by Christian Heck Mixed and mastered January 2020 by Robert Nacken Cover art and design by Markus Dorninger  

Here is the concert I played yesterday at the Moers Festival 2020 with Marlies Debacker (piano), Carl Ludwig Hübsch (tuba) and Florian Zwissler (analog synth). Although I was sceptical at first to play without an audience on such a big festival it turned out to be an amazing experience! Thanks to the Moers Festival (staff, sound engineers, crew, volunteers etc.) and ARTE.TV, it felt like a real concert! Debacker, Zwissler, Hübsch, Nillesen starts at 1:06:15 […]

Saturday, May 30th, I am playing at the MOERS FESTIVAL 2020 w/ Marlies Debacker (piano), Florian Zwissler (analog synth) and Carl Ludwig Hübsch (tuba). I am really looking forward to play again at the MOERS Festival! Being able to do that in these weird times with these great musicians and friends is something special! ARTE TV will be streaming the entire concert/ festival in their ‘super live stream’. You can see all concerts on the […]

Thursday, May 14th, the premiere of ME! A duo with the great trombone player Matthias Muche. Although we have been playing together for several years in different projects (Elisabeth Coudoux EMISZATETT, Carl Ludwig Hübsch ART BLAU and the trio T.ON w/ Constantin Herzog on double bass) this is our first duo concert! Really looking forward to play with Matthias and in front of a live audience again!!! Concert starts at 20h,  Stadtgarten Cologne    

  Weston Olencki and I are digitally releasing our first record as a duo EN on May 1st on bandcamp! Eva Jeske made the beautiful cover for this project. Three panels of friction, breath, and sustained action. Etienne Nillesen – extended snare drum. Weston Olencki – trombone. releases May 1, 2020 All pieces recorded live May 2019 at studio 501, Chicago, IL. Mixed/Mastered by Weston Olencki. Album art and design by Eva Jeske.

Here’s a short ‘tonal’ improvisation on my extended snare drum recorded with my phone at home. This is something I am very interested in right now. Playing melodies on a snare drum without extra tuning or pitching by pressing the drumhead. Just letting the snare drum sing. Everything you hear are the natural acoustics of the drum + drumhead with no electronics used.

Paviljoen Ongehoorde Muziek invited me to participate in the POM Good Virus Sessions with a 1 minute improvisation. Here is the idea of POMs Good Virus Sessions: The musician records a one minute improvisation which ends in such a way so that another musician can pick this as a start of his 1 minute improvisation. And here is my contribution:   I thought it would be nice to send my video to two of my […]