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Member Since: 21/08/2007
Band Members: Oliver Kent: piano
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Uli Langthaler: bass
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Jörg Engels: trumpet
Thomas Kugi: saxophone
Johannes Enders: saxophone
Johannes Herrlich: trombone
Mario Gonzi: drums
Sounds Like: The Word is the word of transendence, in that if you do not show the relationship between where you started, to where you are, to where you would most want to be, what you are trying to show people, is lost in translation.
Recognized that there are certain musicians (and I’m talking about jazz players in this discussion) that can touch their instrument in such a personal way that the informed listener, upon hearing a few notes on a recording, knows instantly who is playing; and also the remarkable fact that among them, there are a handful who draw such a personal sound that nobody can duplicate it.
For instance Duke Ellington can strike a three note chord in the middle of the piano along with a single note down in the bass, and you can walk up to the same piano and hit the same four notes and you can’t get Duke’s sound. Blossom Dearie can play a chord and it will sound unearthly quiet, and you can play the same voicing, and it will be beautiful, but it won’t sound like Blossom. Often it’s the time feeling that’s so personal, as with Mose Allison or Erroll Garner or Pete Johnson ... but the scary ones can touch an instrument and make a sound that nobody else can make.
It was the way the music proceeds from note to note and spins passages that are so dynamically constructed that it seemed there was something, that’s impossible with... let’s say a piano and a bass. They can milk sounds with splashed chords down with a rolling blurry attack that was their’s alone. I’ve rarely heard anybody come close to that kind of sound.
I think there has been many influences, stunned by the way they handle these special parts in the rhythm section and the sometimes startling way behind solos. The imagination is outrageous, and the taste is flawless -- a perfect model for artistic playing. But "sound like ...... ?" Forget it.
Poodlenaked, March 2008
Record Label: Jive Music-Austria
Type of Label: Indie
