Crossing patterns, accentuated rhythms, grooves and filigree excursions into the lands of musical superstructures Martin Schlumpf's Bermuda Viereck has gone through several storms. Right now it rose with new members and new program. Not everything about Bermuda Viereck 1992 is new - the quartet still lives Schlumpf conception: crossing patterns, accentuated rhythms, grooves and filigree excursions into the lands of musical superstructures and solo. Composition and improvisation interact in a specially productive way by mutual intervention, marvellous melodies nestle to scratchy noise, chamber music breaks into heavy jazz. New about this Bermuda Viereck is its easiness of motion, its wit and the chamber musical base. And more than ever: irreverence to any stylistical (self-)limitation. As its title says: "Cumuli", the cloudy signs of a thunderstorm approaching, impressive, picturesque, growing exuberantly, but always keeping typical shape - this is Bermuda Viereck 1992. Pius Knüsel