„Tides & Shadows is a real treat for those listeners who find themselves on the border between avant-garde jazz, modern composition and free improvisation. Complex and spontaneous, intellectual and warm, never unsure of where it´s going and always aware of where it’s coming from, this is an album that is particularly enjoyable on the most…
Read moreWonderful jazz music that intuitively oscillates between intense introspection and emotional expressiveness.
Read moreThis album is so successful that it already arouses curiosity for the third Tru-Cargo-Service -recording.
Read moreTru Cargo Service skilfully play with degrees of density, in which composed and collectively improvised parts dissolve just as osmotically in perception as intimate and hypothermic moments.
Read moreOvercoming Schubert’s depressions with Hannah Höch – a very worthwhile endeavour.
Read moreRemarkable women, great musicians, great contemporary jazz! No Shadows (Schattenlos)…
Read moreJazz 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,…
Read moreIf 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. (…)…
Read moreThe 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.
Read more(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.
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