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VÖ: 29.08.2024
Genre: Good Time Jazz, Bigband
Thirteen newly produced smash hits from the jazz-techno phenomenon.
"Great art that takes us from universe to universe." (Paris Move)
In the decade since it was founded, the German “Jazzrausch Bigband” has made a habit of combining things which are normally considered to be opposites: techno and jazz; classical and underground electronica; the concert hall and the club; the young and the old. "Bangers Only!" is the definitive hit album, consisting of half newly recorded and produced fan favourites and half fresh "bangers". And it shows that the band has found a way to root this repertoire in its own, thorougly recognisable sound, one which has become familiar to a large and diverse fan base and which has a way of combining everything into one big, well-rounded whole.
Jazzrausch Bigband
Directed and produced by Roman Sladek
Music by Leonhard Kuhn*
The Art in Music: Cover art by Lena Maidl (sturmtiefdesign)
"Great art that takes us from universe to universe." (Paris Move)
In the decade since it was founded, the German “Jazzrausch Bigband” has made a habit of combining things which are normally considered to be opposites: techno and jazz; classical and underground electronica; the concert hall and the club; the young and the old. "Bangers Only!" is the definitive hit album, consisting of half newly recorded and produced fan favourites and half fresh "bangers". And it shows that the band has found a way to root this repertoire in its own, thorougly recognisable sound, one which has become familiar to a large and diverse fan base and which has a way of combining everything into one big, well-rounded whole.
Jazzrausch Bigband
Directed and produced by Roman Sladek
Music by Leonhard Kuhn*
The Art in Music: Cover art by Lena Maidl (sturmtiefdesign)
For the album "Bangers Only!" Jazzrausch Bigband has concentrated on a form which is by its nature tight and compact: here are thirteen "bangers", the kind of hits that no self-respecting concert or playlist should ever be without. We’re fixed on the three- to four-minute song form here. So everything is about sticking to the point, or often just getting straight down to it. So we hear the very catchy, yet refined "Moebius Strip", the funky "I Want To Be A Banana" or the brass thunderstorm "Punkt und Linie zur Fläche". The other half of the setlist is new, the list of ingredients is typically long for Jazzrausch Bigband: techno, disco and funk beats, thick walls of brass alongside wide, airy surfaces, plus vocals, spoken word and improvisation. Euro-dance borrowings are new - sweet, garish and juicy.
That said, they never let it get too sweet, because the band, and especially their chief composer/arranger Leonhard Kuhn are masters of keeping things in balance: what is always present and clearly audible is his genuine and completely un-ironic love for all of these contrasting styles. And also the joy he has in deconstructing them and tearing them down, the constant alternation of fun and seriousness. "Bangers Only!" shows that the band has found a way to root this repertoire in its own, thorougly recognisable sound, one which has become familiar to a large and diverse fan base and which has a way of combining everything into one big, well-rounded whole.
The group of some 35 young musicians who form the Jazzrausch collective has played almost 1,000 shows in 15 countries since it was founded. Up to and including "Bangers Only!", they have released 12 albums, nine of them on ACT. And since the beginning of 2024, the band has been welcomed into a permanent home: the impressive, newly opened BERGSON Kunstkraftwerk to the west of Munich. This is something of a coming-of-age of the ideas behind Jazzrausch Bigband. The fact that the band is playing in an impressive new venue as a house ensemble takes us all the way back to their beginnings in 2014 as artists in residence at Munich techno club "Harry Klein". So the question is whether what started as a small idea can also be made to work on the large scale? Yes it can, and for two reasons: first because this music combines the familiar with new discoveries, whatever the listener’s level of familiarity with it might be. And secondly because this music has the kind of intensity which is always going to draw listeners right in. Every time.
That said, they never let it get too sweet, because the band, and especially their chief composer/arranger Leonhard Kuhn are masters of keeping things in balance: what is always present and clearly audible is his genuine and completely un-ironic love for all of these contrasting styles. And also the joy he has in deconstructing them and tearing them down, the constant alternation of fun and seriousness. "Bangers Only!" shows that the band has found a way to root this repertoire in its own, thorougly recognisable sound, one which has become familiar to a large and diverse fan base and which has a way of combining everything into one big, well-rounded whole.
The group of some 35 young musicians who form the Jazzrausch collective has played almost 1,000 shows in 15 countries since it was founded. Up to and including "Bangers Only!", they have released 12 albums, nine of them on ACT. And since the beginning of 2024, the band has been welcomed into a permanent home: the impressive, newly opened BERGSON Kunstkraftwerk to the west of Munich. This is something of a coming-of-age of the ideas behind Jazzrausch Bigband. The fact that the band is playing in an impressive new venue as a house ensemble takes us all the way back to their beginnings in 2014 as artists in residence at Munich techno club "Harry Klein". So the question is whether what started as a small idea can also be made to work on the large scale? Yes it can, and for two reasons: first because this music combines the familiar with new discoveries, whatever the listener’s level of familiarity with it might be. And secondly because this music has the kind of intensity which is always going to draw listeners right in. Every time.
Jazzrausch Bigband
"A meltdown of big band sound with house and techno
music." (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
With an average of 120 concerts per year, the Jazzrausch
Bigband is one of the busiest big bands in Europe. Through their concerts in
Europe, America, Asia, and Africa, they bring together jazz enthusiasts and
dance enthusiasts with "sonic power, groove, and tremendous stage
presence" (FAZ) like no other ensemble currently does. Groove with
intellect, electronic music with brass, jazz in a frenzy.
The driving forces behind the project are Munich-based
trombonist and music manager Roman Sladek and guitarist and composer Leonhard
Kuhn, who also resides in Munich.
The musical journey's nucleus and starting point is a Munich
institution: the "Harry Klein," one of the most renowned electronic
clubs in Europe. In 2015, just one year after its formation, the Jazzrausch
Bigband became the Artist in Residence at "Harry Klein," and the
young Munich audience went wild. A big band in a techno club. Truly unique. For
Munich and the world. Quickly, the stages grew larger, and the band filled
venues like the Muffathalle as well as high-culture temples like the Munich
Philharmonic, and they performed at renowned festivals across Germany. The
circles the band moves in continue to expand: concert tours have taken them to
the Lincoln Center in New York, the JZ Festival in Shanghai, the Safaricom
International Jazz Festival in Nairobi, the Ural Music Night in Yekaterinburg,
and the SXSW Music Festival in Austin.
It is not an exaggeration to call the band a phenomenon. One
that, in its own unique way, demonstrates what has been simmering and working
in this music called "jazz" for a long time: it is more than ever the
label for what doesn't fit into any box. And everyone, both musicians and the
audience, enjoys tearing down boundaries with delight. The music of the
Jazzrausch Bigband, it seems, fulfills several desires in this context: the
desires of clubgoers for something more authentic, handmade, fresh, and original.
And the desires of jazz and classical music listeners for more punch,
entertainment, big sound, and a fat groove.
Jazzrausch Bigband
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€12.90*