"I hope that Hans Burgener will share with us in the future his feelings many, many more times." (Barre Phillips, Liner-Notes) The violinist begins playing and yet, there is no artistic concept interfering, no organized progression leading to a final point. Nevertheless, there is intention in his playing. Bernese violinist Hans Burgener has named this solo recording "IN-SIGHT" and elected to title the 12 tracks simply as Part I through XII. His work informs us of a life-threatening situation and Burgener has recreated in sound what has moved his innermost world in a transformative manner. The listener does not hear somebody who is out of order but rather a man standing with his feet planted firmly on the ground. Nevertheless, the music goes far beyond the physical and into incomprehensible dimensions. Burgener draws from the wide spectrum of his own musical experience. He combines the classics with noise and folkloric elements with contemporary sounds. However, the result is not fusion. His compositions simply follow the track which is following him. The resultant music has a richness of expression and impetus. Because of this, the ear can recognize the influence of baroque, minimalism, Eastern as well as experimental music. The archaic atmosphere of the churches in Amsoldingen and Blumenstein of the Bernese Oberland lend the sounds an unvarnished and elementary touch. Burgener plays concerted sounds, with repetitive patterns. Like a painter with his brush, his music is transported to the canvas and becomes plastic, fibrous, urgent. Hans Burgener (57) began playing the violin as a child and started by honing his craft in classical orchestral settings. However, in short time he became interested in more experimental expressions. The most important of these projects has been in a string trio with Barre Phillips (b) and Martin Schütz (vc), a quartet with Richard Teitelbaum, Günter Müller and Carlos Zingaro and the trio "Bent II" with the Austrian trumpeter Franz Hautzinger and the English percussionist Steve Noble. Performing has taken him through Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan, South Africa and Russia. Additionally, he has initiated projects with practitioners of other disciplines including dance, the fine arts, theater and film. He has worked with the texts of Adolf Wölfli and even found inspiration from brain research done by the Neurophysiologic Department at the University of Bern. "This records a moment in the landscape of my soul. I am certain that music is more than a simple sequence of sounds. Music has always been an expression of the human life force and of human inrospection" Burgener explains in the booklet accompanying his solo-recording. "IN-SIGHT" gives you the possibility to hear an instrumentalist who does not look for self-implementation but for energy. Pirmin Bossart, translated by Tammy Piccirillo