The Belgian / Dutch electric guitar quartet ZWERM was founded in 2007. The starting point of the four musicians of ZWERM is their common interest for new music: composed, improvised, experimental and performative. The awareness of the similarities between these different elements and the challenge of presenting them in a meaningful way is very important. In the twentieth century the electric guitar has proved to be the instrument of 'low culture' and underground music. Nevertheless, it has found its way to composed music only very recently. The gap between these two fields is still big. In this context we want ZWERM to be a group that is able to work in both directions whithout the former boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture.A group which links things, uses/abuses traditions and navigates between the many styles, conceptions and stages which are representative for the music today. Musicians: Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelissen, Matthias Koole, Toon Calier Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.