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The music of exit is rooted in Christina Zurhausen's own experiences and follows the aesthetic of grunge rock. The band leader, who comes from the rough everyday life of the Ruhr area, composes the band's songs - songs which, despite their clear structure and melody, are based on improvisation and are characterized by catchiness.
Zurhausen's music tells of loving and quarreling worlds, with a penchant for philosophy, in an attempt to fathom what holds the world together at its core. Always the Ruhr area in mind, the experienced 90s and beloved 60s in mind.
It's about emotions that lie deeper and are processed in an energetic way by the well-rehearsed musicians with a modern, rocking attitude.

1. Kiss The Night Air
2. Grunge Mess
3. Tango Unchained
4. Forgotten Opportunities
5. 221B
6. Ornette Soul
7. Monk's Honk
8. Sick
9. All The Walls I Strike My Head Against Are Inside My Head

Béla Meinberg presents his new trio album "Akkolo"! That word, which in the pianist's childhood was allowed to be used as a universal word for everything, also describes the second album of the Berlin trio most aptly: Everything that pleases and is fun is included. Except food. With Thorbjørn Stefansson and Jordan Dinsdale, one of the most innovative and creative rhythm groups in the capital has set up here to create music together.
"My favorite trio!" - Mom

01Free 1
02 The fox at night
03Free 2
04 All of Me
05 What is beauty?
06Free 3
07 Richie Cole Energy Song
08 Free 4
09 segments
10 goodbye
11 21

01 Cold Case
02 24/7
03 Where It Belongs
04 Ballad For Tom
05 Dance On Little Girl
06 Flummi
07 Bird’s Waltz
08 It’s All Here
09 Fast Lane

True to the motto "Old acquaintances - new band", the Cologne trumpeter Matthias Bergmann and the Oldenburg saxophonist Raimund Moritz have decided after many years to realize a band project with their favorite musicians.
The Hamburg guitarist Sandra Hempel, recently a member of the NDR Big Band, came to mind just as quickly as the bass player Peter Schwebs, who recently returned to Hanover from New York, and the Oldenburg drummer Christian Schoenefeldt.
The CD "Moodswing" recorded in March 2019 will now be released in September on Fattoria Musica Records, the label of the studio in Osnabrück where the recording was made. It mainly contains original compositions by the two band leaders, such as the ballad "Stray", which Bergmann dedicated to the composer Billy Strayhorn, or "One for Bob", Moritz's homage to the saxophonist Bob Mintzer.
A composition each by trumpeter Bert Joris and saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi complete the album, whose music is modern and contemporary, but always melodic and swinging.

01 South Of The Border
02 Almost Never
03 What Would Ripky Do?
04 Stray
05 One For Bob
06 September Quiet
07 On The Brink
08 mood swing
09 For The Time Being

The Doppler Trio is a new German/Dutch piano trio, the trio consist of three young musicians who met each other at the Conservatory in Arnhem in the Netherlands. Together they discovered their love for modern jazz music.
They developed their own atmospheric, narrative jazz sound with a special focus on the story behind the music, which is told every night again in a new and unique way. Within those songs the trio uses unconventional ideas such as effects over the acoustic piano and instruments such as the didgeridoo and Indian percussion.
They just recorded their first CD: Nebula, which will be released the 10th of January on all platforms. You can expect songs from this CD combined with new songs and improvisations.

01. Dune
02. Star
03. Enemy
04. Moondust
05.BDBC
06. Laika
07 Birth

The duo Dream.box - consisting of the singer Yvonne Dombrowski and the harpist Marie Schroeder - was founded in Hamburg in 2020. The two musicians met in 2018 and decided last year, when the corona pandemic prevented almost all concert activities, to develop a program together to give their own artistic development a boost. A deep musical bond grew out of a friendship, in which Marie Schroeder's classical expertise and Yvonne Dombrowski's vocal use, which is rooted in jazz singing, come together to create an enchanting mix: the unusual line-up fascinates and casts a spell over the audience. The duo's program draws on various currents, which is partly due to the training of the musicians. While Yvonne was studying jazz singing in Osnabrück, Marie was studying classical concert harp in Berlin. Accordingly, both styles have an influence on the joint musical work. At the same time, it is difficult to assign their music to a specific genre. Dream.box is something entirely unique. The arrangements are written especially for the duo.

Yvonne and Marie are now presenting their first album "Mittwinter". Both well-known and less well-known winter and Christmas pieces can be heard in new, sensitive interpretations, which surprise again and again due to their multifaceted nature. In the dark and cold season, "Mittwinter" invites you to make yourself comfortable with a cup of tea in front of the fireplace, to listen and maybe dream a little. 

01 All Through The Night
02 Silver Bells
03 Christmas In The Old Man's Hat
04 In The Bleak Midwinter
05 Carol Of The Bells
06 Sleep, my little child
07 Good King Wenceslas
08 It's gonna be like dumpa
09 Scarborough Fair
10 Let It Snow
11 What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
12 I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas

Jacob Fortyhands come from Lohne, a small town between Bremen and Osnabrück. But actually one would assume the newcomers with their unmistakable vocal melodies and their danceable indie pop to be from the north of England.

The five-piece band delivers English-language songs that make you want to go on road trips and mild summer evenings - in short: their songs evoke a feeling of longing and familiarity. Initially intended as a project, Jacob Fortyhands was founded several years ago by Lukas (vocals & guitar), Carsten (drums) and Hendrik (guitar). When the bass player dropped out in 2017, Lukas' brother Jakob (bass) became a new member and "one project" became their band. Till (Synths & Keys) has been completing the quintet since 2019.

They create a mix of introverted lyrics that leave room for thought and catchy hooks that get stuck in your head. Just in their early 20s, Jacob Fortyhands have created a sound that is both modern and creatively reflecting their 80's folk and pop-rock influences, in the vein of The Police and Genesis.

01 High tides
02 Daisy
03 Chase For Gold
04 Great Heights
05 straight up
06 Motion

Life in the twenties is characterized by searching for and waiting for something that you don't know exactly what it is. Between endless boredom and oppressive stress, between youthful naivety and bitter seriousness, between bubbling euphoria and devastating disappointment, Jacob Fortyhands find a sound that bundles all of this together as if under a magnifying glass. Preserved on eleven songs, "Caught up in Strange Ways" combines the multi-faceted songwriting of singer Lukas Heitmann with dreamy guitars, hypnotic drum grooves and harmoniously placed synthesizers. With the help of friend and producer Steffen Lütke, a work was created over a period of one year in the Fattoria Musica studios that is more mature, multifaceted, honest and melancholic than Jacob Fortyhands' first EP and thus the musical, but often also personal development of everyone replicates five band members.

01 Caught up in Strange Ways
02 Feels Like Forever
03 New Wave
04 Patience
05 The Grand Escape
06 Twentysomething
07 What is it?
08 Good intentions
09 More than a Mood
10 What I already know
11 Hit the wall

The trio around pianist Jan Alexander is constantly searching for the unknown within a familiar context. The three musicians use their own compositions from the field of modern jazz as a starting point and framework for the new exploration of apparent circumstances. It is no coincidence that the pieces deal with themes such as restlessness, being on the lookout and change.
With Michael Knippschild on drums and Calvin Lennig on double bass, Jan Alexander has found fellow musicians who give him the foundation and space to improvise freely and without restrictions.
With "Of Memories To Come" the trio will release their debut album in October 2019. The Cologne trumpeter Heidi Bayer can be heard as a feature guest on three songs.

Jan Alexander - piano, synthesizer
Calvin Lennig - double bass
Michael Knippschild - drums
Special Guest: Heidi Bayer - flugelhorn

01 Sublime
02 Of Memories To Come
03 Finding Happiness (Interlude)
04 Hastily Hesitant 05 Fumblin'
06 On The Verge (feat. Heidi Bayer)
07 Hiking
08 Ease My Mind
09 Reprise (Interlude)
10 Tightrope Walk (feat. Heidi Bayer)
11 Mantra (feat. Heidi Bayer)

"Alright" is the name of the first EP by the Osnabrück jazz singer Johanna Schmoll (born May 11, 1997). In the summer of 2019 she completed her studies at the Institute of Music with the program of the same name. Now the EP (Fattoria Musica Records) will be released in March, on which the young singer is accompanied by a great band consisting of Nils Bölting (guitar), Luca Dechert (drums), Matthias Banse (bass and keyboard), Mechal Bork (viola ) and Pia Schmoll (violin).
The compositions were written by the singer. Beautiful melodies and lyrics are presented in a soulful, poppy guise. Johanna's musical influences from jazz, soul, gospel but also classic can be heard clearly and form a wonderful and special character.

01 Alright
02 Stronger
03 Rumor Has It
04 Secret Love

01 Sticking to the principle
02 Quasimodo
03 Mirage
04 Flickers
05 Midnight Mood
06 Two Cherry Trees

Common myths are stories and sagas conceived by humans to connect people to help them live and work together in groups and societies. Politics, money and human rights are among the things we can call Common Myths. They only exist and function when a substantial group of people believes in them.
On the debut album of the Mo van der Does Quartet, the band shares the Common Myths of their musical world. The musical stories and concepts which they believe in and which holds them together as a band. Through improvisation and interaction, they explore the music and try to tell these stories.
The young Mo van der Does Quartet explores the compositions of Mo van der Does with improvisation and interaction as driving force. The band members are among the most promising musicians from the Dutch jazz scene. With unconditional trust in each other, they seek out the limits of their musical world on stage and are constantly challenging each other.
The absence of a harmonic instrument provides a creative challenge - of dealing with both the freedom and the limitations that this line-up creates. After their debut show at the Uitmarkt 2017, they have performed at venues and festivals such as the BIMhuis, InJazz and the Grachtenfestival and won prizes including the Expression of Art Award and the CTA. Their debut album Common Myths is now available.

01 opener
02 Kingshouse
03 The Unknown
04 Circumstantial
05 Common Myths
06 Prela
07 Rannoch's crap
08 August Crisis (opener reprise)

As a homage to the natural beauty and freedom, but also to the dark and fantastic mysticism of Scandinavia, the Nordsnø Ensemble musically addresses the poetry of life in "Om svalor och smälvatten" (Of Swallows and Meltwater). The ensemble's second album will be released on November 27th, 2020 on Fattoria Musica Records. Their music combines Scandinavian folklore with modern jazz, with elements from progressive rock and electronic music tastefully coloring the pieces on the new album. In the "Snöporten" suite, the ensemble is complemented by a string quartet. The piece was composed in cooperation with the composer and arranger Vincent Dombrowski and the Swedish singer Anna Arco and represents the highlight of the album creates the most fantastic images of Scandinavian beauty in the minds of all listeners.

SIDE A
01 The blomstertid is coming
02 Solveigs sang
03 Vuggevise (Noen comer, noen går)
04 Till havs
SIDE B
01 Snöporten I
02 Snöporten II
03 Snoporten III
04 Då väntar ja vid vägarna

As a homage to the natural beauty and freedom, but also to the dark and fantastic mysticism of Scandinavia, the Nordsnø Ensemble musically addresses the poetry of life in "Om svalor och smälvatten" (Of Swallows and Meltwater). The ensemble's second album will be released on November 27th, 2020 on Fattoria Musica Records. Their music combines Scandinavian folklore with modern jazz, with elements from progressive rock and electronic music tastefully coloring the pieces on the new album. In the "Snöporten" suite, the ensemble is complemented by a string quartet. The piece was composed in cooperation with the composer and arranger Vincent Dombrowski and the Swedish singer Anna Arco and represents the highlight of the album creates the most fantastic images of Scandinavian beauty in the minds of all listeners.

01 The blomstertid is coming
02 Solveigs sang
03 Då väntar ja vid vägarna
04 Snöporten I
05 Snöporten II
06 Snoporten III
07 Inge hinner fram till den eviga ron
08 Vuggevise (Noen comer, noen går)
09 Till havs

A
01 transcendence
02 arcade [4]
03 anger
04 #higgledy-piggledy
05 arcade [2]
06 outburst
B
07 junkyard
08 propaganda
09 equilibrium

01 transcendence
02 arcade [4]
03 anger
04 #higgledy-piggledy
05 arcade [2]
06 coins
07 outburst
08 junkyard
09 propaganda
10 ease
11 equilibrium

SoundBirdz is a female guitar and vocal duo from Cologne with Christina Zurhausen (git) and Sarah Tsehaye (voc). They are authentic and free in their way of expression and so their songs are mostly created in spontaneous songwriting and improv sessions. Their songs move in soul, funk and pop and are profound, unconventional and moving, as is their stage presence with which they carry away and touch. The two get the inspiration for their sound from different genres and thus form their unmistakable warm and edgy sound. Christina, who studied jazz guitar among other things, was accompanied musically by Nirvana, John Scofeld Thelonious Monk and feels at home in the genres grunge, rock, jazz, soul and funk.
Sarah loves the great Motown singers, neo-soul, world music and much more. Her clear and powerful voice transports pure energy and in symbiosis with Christina's guitar playing the two groove atmospherically and timelessly.

01 Following
02 Look At
03 What's The Price
04 On The Radio
05 Closer To My Aim
06 Could Be Insecurity
07 Put Your Guns Down
08 When is enough enough
09 time for two
10 Maybe Baby

The quintet around the bassist Tim Steiner, Burkard Ruppaner (drums), Lars Breitinger (guitar), Jan Bostelmann (sax) and David K. Ehlers (keys) was able to win an expressive singer for the realization of the new album with Elin Bell.
The songs of the band steinerTIME feat. Elin Bell are reminiscent of fascinating stories and create an intoxicating atmosphere. The music, sometimes filigree, sometimes powerful, but always harmonious and unmistakable, is supported by lyrics penned by Elin Bell.

1. What It's All About
2. Hold Still, My Heart
3. We Go Astray
4. These Voices
5. Take Me To The Sea
6. Waltz
7. No Air
8. Anima

The jazz singer Stephanie K. presents her fourth solo album. With her ensemble, she uses emotionally complex songs to illuminate numerous facets of life: love, loss, nostalgia, humor.
Eight of these thirteen pieces are original compositions. In addition, Stephanie K. wrote lyrics for three tracks composed by well-known jazz musicians Joe Locke (A Word Before You Go), Geoffrey Keezer (Honu) and Emanuel Hauptmann (Breaking Ice). Additionally, the album includes interpretations of Joni Mitchel's "Big Yellow Taxi" and Lennon/McCartney's "She's Leaving Home".
We cordially invite you to lose yourself in the magic of this "jazz conversation". Feel how Sebastian Altekamp (piano) and Ingo Senst (bass) harmoniously intertwine the themes of the album. Let yourself be carried away by the wave formed by Christian Schoenefeldt (drums) and Markus Paßlick (percussion) and experience the colorful variety of sounds that Christian Kappe (trumpet/flugelhorn) creates with his instruments.

1. A Word Before You Go
2. Side dish
3. Ignorance Is Bliss
4. Honu
5. Don't Friend Me On Facebook
6. She's Leaving Home
7. Big Yellow Taxi
8. If I Had A Sister
9. Breaking Ice
10. The Bold
11. Watch Your Step
12. Adjusted To Silence
13. Take Me Back

"Personality Standards Vol. 1" is the first milestone in Michael Gudenkauf's and Eike Wulfmeier's joint project dedicated to finding and exploring one's own musical personality. On their way they will meet the most renowned European jazz musicians. Her first journey takes her to the exceptional Dutch guitarist Jesse van Ruller, who among other things is the first European recipient of the Thelonious Monk Award. The band is completed by drummer Christian Schoenefeldt. The first milestone, the album "Personality Standards Vol. 1", will be presented today.
The band consists of four excellent musicians who play improvised music in the best sense of the jazz tradition. The compositions are not in the foreground, but are rather the basis for extensive improvisations by these four unique musical personalities.

1. Little Loose Ends
2nd of April
3. Perpetual delirium
4. Beyond Speaking
5. Honeysuckle Rose
6. The Beltfort House
7. Slow motion
8. In Walked Bud

Under the title "Day/Night", the chamber choir Vokalconsort Osnabrück, conducted by Stephan Lutermann, presents works from the Renaissance to the modern age. Light and darkness are the central themes of the selected compositions by Palestrina, Brahms, Whitacre, Britten and others, which let the listener experience day and evening, waking and sleeping atmospherically dense.
The Vokalconsort Osnabrück has repeatedly inspired concert audiences at home and abroad with its innovative concert formats and excellent choral sound. The chamber choir consists of 34 singers whose main discipline is a cappella singing. Several awards at international competitions speak for the high quality of the ensemble.

AMBROŽ ČOPI (*1973)
01 Sing joyfully (2015)
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA (1525 - 1593)
02 Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes ARVO PÄRT (*1935)
03 The Deer's Cry (2007)
RENÉ CLAUSEN (*1953)
04 All that hath life and breath (1978) SOLO: MAREIKE SCHRÖDER ERIC WHITACRE (*1970)
05 Oculi omnium (2010) SOLO: CHARLOTTE ISBANER BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913 - 1976)
06 Advanced democracy (1938) AMBROŽ ČOPI (*1973)

In their duo, Yvoe Ree (voice) and Vincent Dombrowski (piano/seaboard) combine lyrical melodies, jazz-tinged sounds and art-pop elements into moving compositions.
The musical performance, refined through language, fascinates on all levels of comprehension through artistic intensity and loving expression. Bound by their trust in each other, their shared musical vision and their will to express themselves, YvoeRee create an environment of emotional expression that inevitably captures the audience!
The Hamburg duo has been making music together since 2016. The very individual sound of their music is influenced by artists such as Björk, Jeanne Lee, Jonathan Hart Makwaia and Joni Mitchell. Profoundly poetic texts depict stories in paintings, the messages of which have a metaphorical, multi-layered effect on the recipient. Each song draws a new color into the concert program with its own character. This is supported by the versatile, also experimental vocal use of the vocalist Yvoe Ree, which almost merges with the accompanying singing piano lines of her partner Vincent Dombrowksi. The heartfelt compositions offer emotional freedom of interpretation and invite you to empathize and continue to feel beyond the concert experience.

01 rooftop
02 So soft
03 Colossus
04 Song For Agnes
05 Vivo
06 Mr. Chapman
07 birdies
08 IvoryTower
09 Josephine
10 Somewhere in the world