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Kiesewetters Gammarama Label: Double Moon Records Line-up: |
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Andreas Kurz Quartet Label: Double Moon Records Line-up: |
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Rebecca Trescher Fluxtet Label: Double Moon Records Line-up: |
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Info: The freedom and responsibility of a young generation is the experiment to doubt "old truths" at the same time as you are picking them up. That has explosive power in favorable cases. In much rarer cases, a young musician finds a new, relevant aesthetic position. Rebecca Trescher is a young jazz composer of surprising maturity. She has a commanding mastery of her handwork and uses it to create artworks, which often surprise but never offend – a wonderful and rare alliance between artistic integrity and melodiousness. Her modesty is spectacular. In the music business of brief attention spans, she dares to do without brash "convincing music" and trusts in the magnetic attraction of a good story, stable groundwork and a significant idea. "Lofoten" outlines its completely own dramaturgy of mysterious form blocks, takes its time to speak a rare language clearly and keeps its inescapable suspense for a whole nine minutes. Many compositions by Rebecca Trencher reflect the current world of fragmented truths, our networked and kaleidoscopic reality. Apparently straightforward grooves and melodies as in the "The Red Line" suddenly dispute their roles and turn the musical sphere upside down. In "Samarra", awkward and clear rhythms stumble through a hostile metric framework. The large, epic arcs of "Camille" take place in the background while fine, small melodies try to placate in the vicinity of the listener’s ear. |
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Anne Czichowsky Quintet Label: Double Moon Records Line-up: |
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Info: Jazz singing (and not only singing) has changed considerably over the past decades. This proves the ability of jazz to integrate new trends, styles and techniques and combine them into something new as only few other genres can. At times, the reference to the roots is also lost or even ignored. However, artists appear on the scene time and again, who do the one without leaving out the other. The Anne Czichowsky Quintet is one of the contemporary masters of this discipline in Germany (and beyond). It celebrates the relaxed but driving sound, which is so particular to swing jazz. But then it already switches to an uptempo bebop only to meet again in a ballad, which deeply moves the listener: with a radiating voice, but also at times with a guitar solo that could fit perfectly in a rock song. Anne Czichowsky composes lyrics for instrumental pieces and solos again and again, as she already did on her previous album (released by Neuklang), among others, "Idle Moments" (Duke Pearson) and "Blues and the Abstract Blues" (Oliver Nelson). She scat sings with her variable and very accurate voice, which you almost would want to call an "instrumental". A simply beautiful and entertaining CD has resulted, a joy for aficionados of acoustic, modern jazz. |
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Tobias Meinhart Quartet Label: Double Moon Records Line-up: |
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Info: he leader, tenor and soprano saxophonist Tobias Meinhart characterizes the very individual sound of the quartet as "between modern New Yorker ideal sound and swinging hardbop jazz of the 60s." The four young and talented musicians do not at all want to start on an adventure called "jazz is German" condemned to failure. Instead, they are fully conscious that their roots are in the styles characterized by US American jazz. They pay tribute right away to one of the big names: Joe Henderson. However, his composition "Inner Urge", subtly newly arranged by TMQ, is the only composition by someone else on "Pursuit of Happiness". This quartet is not only strong as an interpreter unit, but also may be described as outstanding and distinguished (in the true sense of the word as many awards testify to) in the area of composition. |
Website: www.glm.de Contact: infon@glm.de |
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Stefanie Boltz Label: Fine Music, GLM Music Line-up: |
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Info: “The vocal Lady has found her sound" the Munich’s Merkur writes about Stefanie Boltz. And this sound packs a punch. Anyone who has experienced her electrifying live performance could get the impression that she was born on stage. She caused a first sensation as the singing half of the duo "Le Bang Bang" with Sven Faller, which was crowned as part of the "Major League" of the Munich music scene by Elle Magazine, and with which she has now visited all the major venues of the German jazz scene. "Her intense and amazingly nuanced expressive style runs like a red thread through her music, which intuitively moves between swinging jazz, blues, gospel and acoustic songwriting. For her solo debut, Stefanie Boltz presents herself with a high-profile trio of key players of the German jazz scene: Paulo Morello on guitar, Sven Faller on Bass and Tim Collins on drums.
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Lena Mentschel Label: GLM Music, Edition Collage Line-up: |
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Info: „In My little Garden is Lena Mentschels third and definitely most personal album-release. Eleven auto-biographic compositions give the listener a glimpse into the dreamy little soul-garden of a young woman, caught up in between rock’n’roll, fancy lemon butter cream cakes, total anarchy and freehold property. Behind the thick walls of the maze which was carefully built around this garden, you can find some humorous short-stories – which of course speak about love in all its daft variations. But also, they speak about issues of a generation, that appears to be a bit lost in the chaotic „anything you want can be yours at anytime“ – century – where self-fullfillment plays such an important role, that people are on the edge of almost forgetting their own names. Love becomes a mystery, a fairytale from long gone ancient times. We fall in love, fall into despair, build mazes around our hearts and in the end we don‘t even manage to find our way back in. And the first wrinkles show up around the anxoiusly happiness-seeking eyes – yet wisdom hasn‘t arrived yet. But then, quite unexpectedly, you become aware of the fact that everything is just a try. And well worth it, since nobody knows, what all of this is really about anyway. So here we go again, posting buddhist quotes and just move on… On the record, various musical styles meet and seem to get along quite well – not even slightly worried about the Jazz / Pop – issue. A fantastic band (Michael Lagger (piano), Philipp Kopmajer (drums), Valentin Czihak (bass), Chris Neuschmid (guitars)) and a heart-warming singer create a unique sound, that every now and then tastes a bit like red wine and dark chocolate – one minute, you can feel a blue late summer melancholy – but then one minute later you’re already cruising down the west-coast in a convertible, drinking champagne. |
Website: unterbiberger.de Contact: xaver@unterbiberger.de |
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Matthias Schriefl Trio Label: himpslRECORDS Line-up: |
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Website: intuition-music.com Contact: info@doublemoon.de |
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Donauwellenreiter Label: Intuition Line-up: |
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Website: www.nabelrecords.de Contact: info@nabelrecords.de |
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Andy Lumpp · Heinrich Chastca · Stefan Hoelker Label: Nabel Line-up: |
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Info: "My art is the expression of my existence in the world" |
Website: www.neuklangrecords.de Contact: rico@bauerstudios.de |
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Marialy Pacheco Label: Neuklang Line-up: Special Guests: |
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Helmut Eisel & Sebastian Voltz Trio Label: Neuklang Line-up: |
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Colours Jazz Orchestra Label: Neuklang Line-up: |
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Info: Upon returning home, I continued to crave the new place that I discovered. I kept going back, and each time was better than the first. But it wasn’t till I was invited by Massimo Morganti in 2008 to Senigallia did I understand the true meaning of Italy.
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Rouzbeh Asgarian Label: Neuklang Line-up: |
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Belém Trio Label: Neuklang Line-up: |
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Triozean Label: Neuklang Line-up: |
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Website: www.ozellamusic.com Contact: mail@ozellamusic.com |
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Helge Lien Trio Label: Ozella Line-up: |
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Pete Alderton Label: Songways/Ozella Music Line-up: |
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Info: Improving a classic: Pete Alderton’s Living on Love remastered There’s no end to playing the blues, no definitive version of a song or album. Still, the re-release of Pete Alderton’s breakthrough Living on Love may initially come as a surprise. Although the album got off to a slow start and mainly spread by word of mouth, after all, it would eventually come to be considered a masterpiece, sell out its entire print run and establish Alderton as a leading voice on the European blues scene. And yet, even a classic can be improved: Without loosing the naked emotional power and raw intensity of the original, the re-issue includes a completely new arrangement of stand-out track "Song for David" and has been carefully re-mastered by Hans-Jörg Maucksch (16 Horsepower, Sara K), adding additional sonic warmth, richness and nuances. There may no such thing as a definitive song or album in the blues – but this version of Living on Love definitely comes pretty close.
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Gjertrud Lunde Label: Ozella Line-up: |
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Info: Timeless-sensitive blend of Jazz, Classical, Pop and World Music, gently inviting the listener on an atmospheric journey. Gjertrud Lunde’s debut album "Hjemklang" is an impressive collection of songs, gently inviting the listener on an atmospheric journey, sharing experiences and impressions of the distance travelled. An excellent four-piece band adds a wide range of expression to Gjertrud Lunde’s voice. The Cologne based artist sings her compositions in English, Norwegian, French and Portuguese. Diverse and homogeneous at the same time, "Hjemklang" unfolds its own magic, keeping the quality level up to the very last note. With luminosity, lightness -always accompanied by a live near depth- the album sounds as close and familiar as a good old friend. |
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Website: www.traumton.de Contact: info@traumton.de |
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Masaa Label: Traumton Records Line-up: |
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30 years ago it was a Lebanese, who was the first to set standards for the fusion of Arabic tradition and western jazz. One generation after the success of the oud-master Rabih Abou-Khalil, the conditions for teamwork between orient and occident have changed. The bridging of cultures is no longer exotic. Now it has a completely natural exchange. The creative flow unearths an immense palette of musical perspectives, creates completely new homelands in and for music. The bold vanguard in the new qualities of this encounter is the quartet Masaa – and with the poet, composer and singer Rabih Lahoud the focus is once again on a man with his roots in Lebanon. … [read more] |
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Tobias Preisig Label: Traumton Records Line-up: |
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Do you know Tobias Preisig? Exactly, the highly acclaimed jazz-violinist from Switzerland, who set new standards between the virtuoso playfulness of jazz and the obstreperous directness of alternative rock with his CD “In Transit” in 2012. The record invited the listener to dauntlessly yell out “Keep it up!” Now “Drifting”, the new release of the violinist and his quartet, is available. Therefore it is worthwhile asking again: Do you really know Tobias Preisig? Because if you believed so far, that you can straightforwarly answer this question with a definite “Yes”, then you will get to know him in a whole new way on “Drifting”. … [read more] |
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Veronika Harcsa & Bálint Gyémánt Label: Traumton Records Line-up: |
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Clarity is a rare asset in jazz. So rare, that it attracts attention straightaway, when an artist has the courage to have absolute transparency. Veronika Harcsa is a Hungarian singer and songwriter, whose greatest strength lies exactly in this clarity, which enchants and bedazzles instantly. She reaches the listener without any detours, gets by without any mysticisms and her voice knows only the most direct way from the soul into the ear. Her unmistakable combination of timbre, structure and responsiveness consistently result in this rare trait: clarity. … [read more] |
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Laura Winkler & Wabi-Sabi Orchestra Label: Traumton Records Line-up: Andreas Semlitsch – Dirigent (A) Feat. Zola Mennenöh, Friederike Merz, Mirna Bogdanovic, Mette Nadja Hansen, Maria Christina, Martina Bartova, Martina Brnetic – Gesang |
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Andreas Matthias Pichler Label: Traumton Records Line-up: |
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Max Andrzejewski’s Label: Traumton Records Line-up: Friederike Merz, Sarah Whitteron, Zola Mennenöh, Laura Winkler, Tobias Christl: voice |
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