Jimi by Christy Doran

Christy Doran

Jimi

Format: CD
Label: Double Moon Records
UPC: 0608917104820
Catnr: DMCHR 71048
Release date: 21 November 2005

1 CD

Label
Double Moon Records

UPC
0608917104820

Catalogue number
DMCHR 71048

Release date
21 November 2005

""And with a number of wonderful played well known and unknown pieces.""

Jazzflits, 01-11-2016

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Artist: Christy Doran, Erika Stucky, Fredy Studer, Kim Clarke

Born in Ireland, Christy Doran moved with his parents to Switzerland more than 40 years ago, where he has lived in Lucerne for many years. He was influenced in his youth more from rock music, and his biggest idol was Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix completely revolutionized guitar playing in the 60s, and his influence on all styles has remained very strong till today. The strength of this influence is demonstrated by an infinite number of more or less successful tributes to him. Doran already started a project more than 10 years ago, which arranged the compositions of the master anew and interpreted them in a contemporary manner, at that time with Phil Minton, Amin Ali, Django Bates and Fredy Studer. This album released by Intuition was a worldwide success and resulted in the band touring the whole world. Now the project is being taken up again, new pieces and new arrangements have been selected and other musicians are involved. Only Fredy Studer (d), with whom Doran has played in various bands for more than 30 years (for example, "OM", the cult band of the 70s!), has remained from the first group. Kim Clarke plays her unbelievable "funky" bass alongside them, which has made her into one of the leading bassists in the funk scene of the USA; she is a regular member of "Defunkt" not without reason. In the place of Phil Minton, Erika Stucky now handles the voice section. And this raises the project to a new level. The singer already proved on her successful album "Lovebites" (Traumton) with her interpretation "If 6 Was 9" that she can put her relation to Hendrix's music into practice brilliantly and innovatively.
While many other Hendrix projects have tried to copy the music (and often failed in the process), Christy Doran's band has succeeded in projecting a new light on the songs without relinquishing the spirit of the music. Especially Erika Stucky moves in the environment of rock, jazz and infernal improvisations with instinctive sureness, but also with a roguish wink of the eye and her own text supplements. Whoever can see her live, see how she moves on the stage and holds a dialog with Jimi via a "baby-phone" will remember this evening very fondly.
The project toured Europe in the fall 2004, where these live recordings were made.

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Christy Doran (guitar)

Born in Dublin, Ireland, living in Lucerne/CH 'Celebrated Swiss guitarist CHRISTY DORAN assets pertain to his indefatigable creative sparks, evidenced by his work in jazz-rock, avant-garde jazz improvisation or when tackling world music. And from a fundamental shedding perspective, he could hold his own with most if not all of the present guitar heroes.' GLENN ASTARITA, New York (AAJ) Christy became internationally known thanks to his collaboration in the 'electric jazz/free music' group 'OM' (1972-82 and 2006 to present). The trio 'RED TWIST & TUNED ARROW' (1985-87, with Stephan Wittwer and Fredy Studer) and the project 'DORAN-STUDER-MINTON-BATES & ALI play the music of JIMI HENDRIX' (1990-94), (later “STUCKY-DORAN-STUDER & TACUMA / JORDI)” received rapid international recognition in the field of tension of...

Born in Dublin, Ireland, living in Lucerne/CH "Celebrated Swiss guitarist CHRISTY DORAN assets pertain to his indefatigable creative sparks, evidenced by his work in jazz-rock, avant-garde jazz improvisation or when tackling world music. And from a fundamental shedding perspective, he could hold his own with most if not all of the present guitar heroes." GLENN ASTARITA, New York (AAJ) Christy became internationally known thanks to his collaboration in the "electric jazz/free music" group "OM" (1972-82 and 2006 to present). The trio "RED TWIST & TUNED ARROW" (1985-87, with Stephan Wittwer and Fredy Studer) and the project "DORAN-STUDER-MINTON-BATES & ALI play the music of JIMI HENDRIX" (1990-94), (later “STUCKY-DORAN-STUDER & TACUMA / JORDI)” received rapid international recognition in the field of tension of composition and improvisation. Doran has performed countless solo and duo concerts worldwide, including with Ray Anderson, Marty Ehrlich, Fritz Hauser, Robert Dick and Yang Jing. 1997 he founded “Christy Doran’s NEW BAG” with whom he produced 8 cd’s for Double Moon Records and Between the Lines Records. 2016 he wrote a composition for “144 Strings for a Broken Chord”, 20 electric guitars, 4 electric basses and drums. In addition to OM, Doran's current projects include "Christy Doran's SOUND FOUNTAIN" (with Lukas Mantel on drums and the Argentine e-bassist Franco Fontanarrosa), Âme Sèche (with Walter Faehndrich, Remo Schnyder, Benedikt Vonder Muell), the interdisciplinary project AEROSOLS, Christy Doran Solo Guitar & Loops, "Triangulation" (with Anna Murphy, John Wolf Brennan and Patrice Héral) as well as the guitar duo with Franz Hellmueller and his collaboration with Reto Weber’s SQUEEZEBAND and Percussion Orchestra. A new trio with Wolfgang Zwiauer/b and Lukas Mantel/dr is in preparation. As a sideman he is engaged in several projects.
Christy Doran was awarded for many prizes, such as the Art Prize of the City of Lucerne in 2003. His name was included in the series "European Jazz Legends" by the renowned magazine "Jazz Thing” (Berlin) in 2017. 2020 he received the Swiss Music Prize. He performs around the globe. He wrote filmmusic, was engaged in several interdisciplinary projects, was professor at the University of Applied Science and Arts Lucerne/CH and has been giving masterclasses all over the world.

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