Ernst Reijseger plays the cello with an unrivalled craftsmanship and uses his talent enthusiastically to further the development of improvised music... The humor of his unexpected musical turns and the original and unconventional use he makes of his instrument add to the accesibility of his music."
He plays with Misha Mengelberg's ICP orchestra, the Gerry Hemingway Quintet, and Trio Clusone (with Michael Moore and Han Bennink). Ernst Reijseger is frequently abroad, performing as a soloist and in a variety of international combinations, with such artists as Louis Sclavis, Trilok Gurtu, Voches de Sardinna, Franco D'Andrea and Yo-Yo Ma. A television documentary about Ernst Reijseger was made and broadcast in 1994.
In 1995 the Trio Clusone toured extensively in Australia, China and Viet-Nam, in addition to their regular haunts at the major jazz festivals of Europe. In the same year Ernst Reijseger was presented with the coveted Bird Award at the North Sea Jazz Festival.
Ernst Reijseger continues to perform with many renowned musicians in various exciting combinations, and yet he spends a good amount of time doing cello workshops for children and solo concerts.
Mola Sylla, who came to Amsterdam in 1987 from Dakar and has been living in Holland ever since, plays thumb-piano and flutes. He sings mostly in Wolof, a language which has survived alongside French and which is spoken by 90% of the Senegalese. He looks to his country's history, Moslem brotherhoods and historic figures such as Cheikh Achmadou Bamba, whose spiritual force grew stronger during his forced exile. His liberal follower Ibra Fall is also in the picture, as is the eminent scholar who gave his name to Dakar's university, Anta Diop. He also sings about the taking of the old capital, Ndar, and loneliness in Europe, about certitudes and mourning, about the grandson of the Prophet Mohammed, and about the hopeless waiting after foreigners who never keep their word. He sings about that which is, about reassembling it and moving it around.