Jazz

Frantic: feverish, raging, beside himself.
They are feverishly looking for new grooves, sounds and media, mad with curiosity when discovering and exploring new percussive worlds, beside themselves with joy of playing on the street and on the stage - the seven musicians of the "frantic percussion ensemble" from Lüneburg . They are young, cheeky, have skills, passion and the wonderful charm of the fresh - in short: frantic percussion has the license to take your breath away and carry you away. Totally legal.
The highest level of perfection and enormous creative potential has repeatedly inspired the audience in recent years. Among other things, at the summer music days in Hitzacker, the Lower Saxony Music Days, the project for new music "Heiderauschen", at the NDR, the young talent festival Musik 21 and at concerts in Germany, Italy, Poland and Switzerland.
The "frantic percussion ensemble" is dedicated to contemporary music as well as classical percussion pieces. But their own compositions are just as important, and the young musicians incorporate influences from a wide variety of styles such as drum n bass, minimal music and jazz.

01 Concerto for prepared piano and percussion, part V
02 Bell air
03 Double music
04 Clapping music variations
05 Pling 4
06 Dissolving scenery
07 Wheeled
08 tikS
09 Devil's Ladder
10 Da pacem dominae
11 Pling 4 (head tone)
12 Da pacem dominae (head tone)

Some time has passed since the release of the debut album Humanity. But the Klangfahrer continued to follow their path consistently during this time. His own style is unmistakable and yet more mature. The most important attributes are unchanged: shrill, lyrical, atmospheric and groovy. The four protagonists have undoubtedly found their world of sound!
A result of many years of intensive cooperation in the same line-up, a habit that is usually more likely to be found in the pop and rock scene. The sound drivers, however, can clearly be assigned to jazz, even if you look in vain for a swing cymbal or walking bass on Colors Of Trance
"Making complex rhythms and arrangements sound easy and understandable is a specialty of Klangfahrer," says Gerd Breuer, Klangfahrer drummer. In the course of his career he has played with many greats of the national and international jazz scene and is responsible for many compositions with the Klangfahrer.
The Klangfahrer have expanded the instrumentation for the musical implementation of the ideas.
In addition to various saxophones, Johannes Flamm now also uses a bass clarinet. Thomas Berndt occasionally uses the soft sound of a Fender Rhodes, various exotic percussion instruments can be heard while Bernd Kistemann prepares the warm, woody foundation of the sound spaces. The Klangfahrer invite you to a journey through their spheres filled with energy and surprising moments!

01 Rain Suite
02 A warm rain
03 Dusty Clouds
04 After The Rain
05 dialogue
06 Motion
07 Danger
08 floating area
09 New moments
10 Grace And Temptation
11 Secret Carriers

The lutenist Gabriele Janneck-Detring and the guitarist Martin G. Günkel play instruments with a total of 25 strings on their first album together. A ten-course Renaissance lute can be heard, i.e. an instrument with nine double and one single string. In addition, there are the six strings of the guitar. Blues and jazz as well as renaissance and baroque music – these and other influences make Gabriele and Martin their very own music.
When they spontaneously played together once, they found the sound of their instruments so appealing that they wanted to do more with it. In a few minutes they had assembled material for a concert program. Pieces from the Renaissance such as the Passamezzo antico or the Passacaglia came to the fore because they were widely used as a basis for improvisation by musicians and thus had a similar function to the twelve-bar blues scheme of today. The sequence of Johann Pachelbel's canon found its way into popular music, and it too used the duo. There are also pieces written by Martin and original literature from the Renaissance.

01 La folia
02 Smile
03 House of the rising sun
04 Passamezzo antico
05 Martin's blues
06 Branle de village
07 Three Pieces from the Rowallen Lute Book
08 canaries
09 Requiem
10 Lullaby
11 Pachelbel's pop ballad
12 absolutely amazing
13 Passacaglia in G minor

The original compositions reflect moods with elements of modern jazz paired with classical influences, while the arrangements have a lively, unique touch with various jazz elements that turn the well-known standards into a surprising listening experience. All titles are characterized by a personal, young and yet complex harmonic and rhythmic structure.
All three musicians grew up with different styles and have gained experience in various music projects from classical to jazz.
"Homemade" was recorded in the private historic walls of the trio and not only gave the album its title but also underlines the personally shaped mood of this music.

01 Right in nearness
02 Toccata and Fugue in D minor
03 Blue rondo a la turk
04 My funny valentine
05 Pastorale in C minor
06 Musica nuevo
07 Lady Madonna

With gripping acoustic guitar music, Ralf Illenberger and Peter Autschbach demonstrate on their new CD "No Boundaries" how intense and exciting a musical dialogue between two equal partners can be.
Encouraged by the great success of their concerts, Autschbach and Illenberger wrote new duo pieces and recorded their first album together in spring 2012 in Sedona (Arizona). Seven dewy compositions and a fully improvised suite make up No Boundaries. The individual styles of Ralf and Peter merge into an extremely harmonious unit. They celebrate a complex and interlocking fingerstyle that is second to none and will make the acoustic guitar scene sit up and take notice. - A 5-star menu for gourmets of acoustic guitar music!

01 On the road
02 Hot worlds
03 Move on
04 Crystal Castle
05 Drama
06 Nov
07 No boundaries
08 Last afternoon
09 Desert waltz
10 Brain connections
11 Desert waltz reprise
12 second anthem
13 finals

Vicente Patíz's concerts are rousing performances and balm for the heart. The multi-instrumentalist has already presented his extraordinary skills at over 1700 concerts around the world and has captivated over 100,000 people with his music in the last five years. His soundscapes have won numerous awards, the 10 instrumental albums that have now been released enjoy five-figure CD sales and enthusiastic reviews - and the journey continues. With his new program Alegria he presents an enchanting mix of melody and joie de vivre.
With guitars, didgeridoo, low whistle, percussion and 42-string harp guitar, Vicente Patiz creates worlds of sound that range from flamenco to jazz and world music. The artist knows how to captivate his audience with charming entertainment. He takes you to the dream beaches of the Mediterranean, lets the magic of the desert ring out, describes the breathtaking forces of nature in Tibet, Australia or the Amazon region and brings the sea into the concert. Patíz elicits magic from guitars, whether he caresses them or celebrates them fiercely, lets them sing or works them with a nail file to conjure up jungle sounds. What remains is just amazement.

1. Santa Maria
2. First Snow
3. Bright Size Life
4. Flying Kangaroo
5. Laughing Children
6. Desert Rose
7. Andalucia
8. Por la Manana
9. Le Cafe
10. Alegria
11. India
12. The Secret Garden

Vicente Patíz is a guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and entertainer all rolled into one. He travels the world on concert tours when he's not on adventure trips to Laos, for example, or producing a new CD. He provides interesting inspiration with funny activities such as a world record in the Guinness Book of eight concerts in eight different European countries within 24 hours. In order to realize his own sound language, Patíz has developed very special instruments, such as a 42-string Tierra Guitar with three differently tuned guitar necks and additional harp strings or didgeridoos and fujara flutes. In the now eighth album "Tierra" the artist played all of the more than 20 different instruments himself, creating a very illustrative cosmos of sound that goes around the world.

Magicians of rapid, enchanting compositions that sound like southern sun, rushing sea and far away. (Baltic Sea newspaper Stralsund 2013)
His music expressed pure joie de vivre. (Brunswick Newspaper 2012)

"Compassion" is a jazz pop album by Inga Eichler. Inspired by the musician's many years of experience, it tells of life, love and a spirituality that encompasses us all with singing and acoustic sounds. Tracks like the single "Walk With You" are catchy and convince with their production. But the song "Longwhile" also surprises with German rap and its modern flair. Inga Eichler is a storyteller with high standards of musicality. (Andreas Landrock)

With "Compassion" Inga Eichler and her band Endeevior present a new jazz pop album. Singing and acoustic sounds such as "Walk with you" reflect the young Wuppertal native's experiences of life, love and spirituality, which stem not least from her ten-year stay in London, with her studies and numerous performances, for example in the renowned Jazz Club Ronny Scott. On tour around the world she played with Chihiro Yamanaka, among others, which took her to Japan and the USA. Compassion will be released on CD by Inga Eichler in August 2021. The double-bass-playing musician also made some self-composed pieces available for the London band Nerija, who took part in the Wuppertal jazz meeting in 2014, for the CD of the same name. (Open sky Wuppertal)

01 Walk With You
02 Longwhile
03 Again
04 Abe And Ret01 Walk With Me
02 Longwhile
03 Again
04 Abe And Ret
05 Sally
06 Is It You
07 Arrived
08 Take Love Easy
09 Garlands
10 You And I
11 The Devil's Compassion
12 Time And Space
13 Did You Think You Can Fly?

Vicente Patíz's concerts are described by the press as "wellness for the soul", he is described as a "master of mental cinema" or called the "guitar magician".
The solo artist has already demonstrated his extraordinary ability at more than 1300 concerts in Germany and abroad and enjoys a constantly growing fan base. Patíz has won numerous awards and prizes with his music. In 2010 he set a spectacular world record with eight concerts in eight European countries in twenty-four hours, making him the fastest guitarist in the world in this category. In his programs, elements of jazz, funk and flamenco merge into a breathtaking mix of melody and emotion . In addition, Vicente Patíz expands the range of his soundscapes with skillful percussion parts and exotic instruments such as the didgeridoo.

01 Here I'am
02 Luna
03 San Vincenzo
04 Aloha
05 One Night in May
06 Children's Song
07 Vive el Momento
08 Fly
09 Sweet Dreams
10 Watersong