One Foot In The Air

“One Foot In The Air” captures the electrifying encounter between pianist Elisabeth Harnik and percussionist Zlatko Kaučič, recorded live at Kulturhalle Eggersdorf in Austria on June 14, 2022. The music unfolds as a vivid, high‑stakes dialogue, shaped by two improvisers who treat sound as a living, reactive force. Harnik transforms the piano into a multidimensional instrument, drawing on preparations, extended techniques, and percussive attacks that expand its sonic vocabulary far beyond the conventional keyboard. All About Jazz Kaučič responds with an ever‑shifting palette of textures—rattles, rustles, resonances, and homemade objects—creating a rhythmic and timbral landscape that feels both unpredictable and deeply intentional. Together they construct a music that moves from explosive cascades to the faintest shimmer of sound, always guided by a sense of mutual curiosity and alertness. “One Foot In The Air” becomes a document of two artists listening with total commitment, shaping a performance that feels like a game of sonic chess—each move provoking a response that is surprising, precise, and utterly alive.