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Label TCB The Montreux Jazz Label |
UPC 0725095031820 |
Catalogue number TCB 03182 |
Release date 03 November 2017 |
With this album Hans Kennel returns to his first loves: trumpet and jazz. He founded his new, jazzy chamber music quartet WOOD&BRASS, which features three generations of adventurous musicians.
Kennel stands for long experience, New Zealand born Phil for the solid grounded middle, Silvan and Cégiu represent the upcoming new generation of musicians deserving wider attention and recognition.
Featuring the most unusual instrumentation of two trumpets, a trombone, all doubling on alphorn, and a cello, the ensemble produces a new sound enriched by accents set by the unique voice of the cellist. The music partly comes in untempered (natural intonation).
With fresh sounds, sourced in jazz with a tinge of 'alpine echo' of Kennel’s earlier folk music projects, this music brings the listener into a world of contrasts: silence and contemplation, disruption and storm, tradition and improvisation.
These elements evoke emotions in a mystic atmosphere creating illusions and dreams.
Mit diesem Album kehrt Hans Kennel zu seiner ersten Liebe zurück: Trompete und Jazz. Er gründete sein neues, jazziges Kammerquartett WOOD&BRASS, das sich aus drei Generationen abenteuerlustiger Musiker zusammensetzt. Kennel steht für seine langjährige Erfahrung, der gebürtige Neuseeländer Phil für die solide, geerdete Mitte; Silvan und Cégiu zählen zur aufstrebenden, neuen Generation von Musikern, die größere Bekanntheit und Anerkennung verdienen.
Mit einem enorm ungewöhnlichen Line-up von zwei Trompeten, einer Posaune, Alphorn und Cello, kreiert das Ensemble einen neuartigen Klang, angereichert mit Akzenten der einzigartigen Stimme des Cellisten und zum Teil in nicht-temperierter (natürlicher) Stimmung.
Frische Klänge gründend im Jazz mit einem Hauch Alpenecho aus Kennels früheren Folkloreprojekten entführen den Hörer in eine Welt der Kontraste: Stille und Besinnung, Bruch und Sturm, Tradition und Improvisation. Zusammen beschwören diese Elemente Emotionen in einer mystischen Atmosphäre, Illusionen und Träume herauf.
Bruno Spoerri (b. 1935) played as a saxophonist in various jazz groups as a student, and from 1956 with the Modern Jazz Group Freiburg. From 1957 to 1975 he was a member of the Metronome Quintet and the quintet of Remo Rau and Hans Kennel. From 1964 he composed for commercials, and from 1967 freelanced as composer and sound engineer. He made early experiments with electrified saxophone, the Ondes Martenot and EMS synthesizers. He cooperated with Hans Deyssenroth and Joël Vandroogenbroeck (Brainticket).
Spoerri was musical director of the Zurich Jazz Festival between 1970 and 1973 and again from 1975 to 1977. For a long time he played with Albert Mangelsdorff, Reto Weber, Christy Doran and Ernst Reijseger. Touring has taken him to the USA, Japan, India and Ethiopia, among other places. He’s also created music for commercials, documentaries and feature films (including Markus Imhoof’s “Tauwetter”, Rolf Lyssy’s “Teddy Bär”, H.U. Schlumpf’s “Der Kongress der Pinguine”). Spoerri is editor and co-author of the works “Jazz in Switzerland - History and Stories” (Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005) and “Music from Nothing” (Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2010) on the history of electroacoustic music in Switzerland. He works with interactive computer systems that give him the opportunity to enter into musical communication with his devices. Spoerri worked as a lecturer at the music academies in Zurich, Biel and Lucerne. In 2015 he received the Golden Medal of Honor from the Canton of Zurich, and in 2017 the Swiss Jazz Award for his life’s work.