Jazz sometimes bores me – that`s why the Insomnia Brass Band excites me all the more. (…) a fun line-up, nothing is harmonically padded, nothing is prettified. The two wind players and the one drummer romp in earthy grooves, there is polyphonic improvisation, boppishly torn themes are blown, it swings and stomps as if unleashed,…

If you suffer from sleeplessness, sometimes it helps to eat something. But what is served after midnight as spaghetti al nero die seppia is tape salad which could make you grit your teeth. However, only visually. Acoustically, Anke Lucks, Almut Schlichting and Christian Marien with trombone, baritone sax and drums offer something quite appetizing. (…)…

The Insomnia Brass Band is a powerful trio, always in constant motion and always juggling with quicksilver harmonies, spontaneous accents, melodic conceits, and infectious grooves, delivered with unstoppable joy and with a sharp sense of humor that brings to mind the American quartet Sex Mob led by trumpeter Steven Bernstein.

(The musicians) actually manage to get the maximum out of a minimal line-up and remind one of the great New Orleans brass bands. It is amazing with how much variety and speed they switch from accompanying to soloist function, sometimes making you forget how intelligent and precisely crafted the music is.

(…) a sprawling energetic interplay of thematic motifs and rhythmic patterns with silvery resounding intervals, crystalline themes and meandering solo choruses of the two brass and woodwind players.