charhizma presents: Anna Högberg & Susana Santos Silva @ Blue Tomato

Anna Högberg - Alto Saxophone
Susana Santos Silva - Trumpet
Dieter Kovacic - Turntables
Christof Kurzmann - lloopp

Samstag, 25.03.2017 – 20:30 – Blue Tomato, Wurmsergasse 21, 1150 Wien


Anna Högberg,

by Micke Keysendal

with her radical and experimental saxophone playing, is active in a number of constellations and as a soloist on the Swedish and European jazz/ improv scenes. She is currently working with bands such as her free jazz sextett Anna Högberg Attack, the  punk/ jazz trio Doglife and off course the giant Fire! Orchestra. She has also appeared as a guest in Mats Gustafssons The Thing and NU Ensemble and is constantly exploring new collaborations working in the field of improvised music.


”Her tone being able to cut landscapes open, to melt your brain as we know it.”
- Mats Gustafsson





Susana Santos Silva

by_Christer Männikus

 is a trumpeter, improviser and composer from Porto, Portugal. In the last years she has been considered by the international press as one of the strongest emerging voices in contemporary jazz and improvised music.
With a singular approach/voice that comes out of a comprehensive spectrum of influences, from classical and contemporary music to jazz and textural sound art, she is interested in stretching the boundaries of the instrument and in exploring new ways of expression within music.
She leads her projects Impermanence and Life and Other Transient Storms (with Lotte Anker, Sten Sandell, Jon Fält and Torbjörn Zetterberg), and co-leads duos with Zetterberg (also in trio with Hampus Lindwall), Kaja Draksler, Jorge Queijo, Alexandra Nilsson, Hearth (with Mette Rasmussen, Ada Rave and Kaja Draksler) and a quartet with Christine Wodrascka, Christian Meaas Svendsen and Håkon Berre. She is also part of the LAMA trio, Torbjörn Zetterberg's Och Den Stora Frågan and Coreto.
She played, among many others and besides her working bands, with Fred Frith, Chris Cutler, Craig Taborn, Thomas Morgan, Kris Davis, Mat Maneri, Ingrid Laubrock, Joe Morris, Mats Gustafsson, Per-Åker Holmlander, Okkyung Lee, Christof Kurzmann, Tobias Delius, Achim Kaufmann, Frank Gratkowski, Christian Lillinger, Kresten Osgood.

She has been performing and recording in Portugal, Spain, France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Poland, Hungary, Romenia, Slovenia, Serbia, Croacia, Kosovo, Italy, Greece, Egipt, Morocco, Ireland, United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, USA, Uruguay, Argentina, Indonesia and UAE.
“Susana Santos Silva is a extremely busy global musician who leads and co-leads various groups of different sizes, but always with her confident, nearly free approach as the focus. Her sound is liquid yet fiery, resonant, strong and flexible and her sharp command of the instrument is typically expressed in creative improvising situations where an ability both to blow torrents of sound and compose compact melodic statements - all entirely in the moment - make her a valuable asset in her many recording and performance roles.”
Ken Micallef, NYC Jazz Record

Selected Discography

Life and Other Transient Storms, Clean Feed 2016
Santos Silva/Stadhouders/Almeida/Costa Buku Cylinder 2016
Wodraschka/Santos Silva/Svendsen/Berre Rasengan! Barefoot Records 2016 Kaja Draksler / Susana Santos Silva This Love Clean Feed 2015
Torbjörn Zetterberg Och Den Stora Fragan Om Liv och Död Moserobie 2015 Santos Silva / Zetterberg / Lindwall If Nothing Else Clean Feed 2015
Coreto Sem Chão Carimbo Porta-Jazz 2015
LAMA & Joachim Badenhorst The Elephant's Journey Clean Feed 2015
Susana Santos Silva Impermanence Carimbo Porta-Jazz 2015
Santos Silva/ Tom Chant/ Vasco Trilla The Paradox of Hedonism Discordian Records 2015 De Beren Gieren & Susana Santos Silva The Detour Fish Clean Feed 2014
Torbjörn Zetterberg Och Den Stora Fragan Moserobie 2014
Adam Lane's Full Throttle Orchestra Live in Ljubljana Clean Feed 2014
João Guimarães Zero TOAP 2014
Coreto Mergulho Carimbo Porta-Jazz 2014
Susana Santos Silva & Torbjörn Zetterberg Almost Tomorrow Clean Feed 2013
SSS-Q Songs From My Backyard LP Wasser Bassin 2013
LAMA & Chris Speed Live in Portalegre Clean Feed 2013
Coreto Aljamia Carimbo Porta-Jazz 2012
LAMA Oneiros Clean Feed 2011
Susana Santos Silva Quintet Devil ́s Dress TOAP 2011