Thursday, 12 November 2026
Steve Swallow remembers the Mühle Hunziken in 1984
The bassist Steve Swallow writes about days in a Swiss mill where he gave workshops and played concerts with Harry Pepl.
“I had only to follow the sound of a guitar played without amplification to locate his room”: this is how the American bassist Steve Swallow remembers Harry Pepl in an email to Daniel Pepl. Swallow looks back on the tour in the band of the Swiss drummer Peter Giger and on a few days at the Mühle Hunziken in Rubigen near Bern, Switzerland, with daily workshops and evening concerts. A poster and a programme sheet of the Mühle announce concerts with Swallow, the Jazzzwio (Pepl’s duo with the vibraphonist Werner Pirchner) and Giger’s Family of Percussion for Friday, 15, and Saturday, 16 June 1984, plus a workshop on Saturday and Sunday. Swallow’s full recollection is on his page in the archive.