tempelektrisch
Tour Tempelektrisch in Originalbesetzung!
08.12.09 Mannheim, Feuerwache
09.12.09 Zürich, moods
10.12.09 München, Unterfahrt
11.12.09 Berlin, A-Trane
12.12.09 Heidenheim, BA
13.12.09 Tübingen, Sudhaus
Unsere CD erscheint im September 2009:
I bought my first electric keyboard in 1986 and I still have it. Although it was one of the cheapest on the market I had to spend all the money I had on it. I just needed something that was loud enough to be heard in the rock band I was in at the time.
I took classical piano lessons as a kid and teenager and later studied jazz piano, but I also was influenced by the jazz rock music that was around me. When the Yamaha DX 7 came out, the reverend (!) of my hometown was one of the first to have it. He showed me the helicopter and thunder sounds the DX 7 could produce. Wow!
Some time later the MIDI keyboards came out and the Korg M1 was state of the art. Since the beginning, all the synthesizers and later the samplers have tried to imitate natural instruments and this development has never ended. It makes no sense for my music, but it’s clear why some producers liked the new stuff.
I prefer analogue instruments which are as old as myself. Their sounds, in the ears of today, hardly resemble any natural instrument but have become instruments in themselves. The Rhodes and The Wurlitzer Piano, as well as the Hohner Clavinet, cannot be played the same way a piano is played. In some situations, the Rhodes blends much better with wind instruments than the piano does.
So this album is called tempelektrisch, even though there are more natural instruments in the band than electric ones. What interests me, besides playing with great colleagues, is introducing my way of composing to a line-up which you wouldn’t immediately associate with “serious“ composition. I mean like in the case of a string quartet, for example.
So, at least for the time being, when I’m composing for jazz musicians or interpreters familiar with jazz, I come up with pieces like these we recorded. I hope you enjoy them.
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