“The three wind instruments and the drums burrow through the branched, delicate arrangements like moles, layering polyphonic overlays on top of each other in brass-band style and allowing each other enough room for improvisation. Anyone who would have thought that the idea of tenor saxophonist Beierbach and his fellow players to build a monument to…

“Wherever You Roam is fascinating because it provides a window onto how some of Berlin’s most accomplished youngish improvisers can move familiar and unfamiliar songs into new areas as they change our perception of them.”  http://www.jazzword.com

“Three winds and a drummer – that’s all Beierbach needs to realize his Dylan arrangement, and the reinterpretation of Dylan’s work actually works without lyrics. … The brass sections act with pressure and wit and surprise with strange meter changes. … Beierbach has found his own approach to Dylan’s oeuvre.”

Alexander Beierbach in an interview with Michael Scheiner about the new CD “Wherever You Roam”, the band’s approach to Dylan’s work and the current difficulties caused by the pandemic: https://www.nmz.de/artikel/bob-dylan-ohne-text-total-schluessig

“Every solo that is played here, every freewheeling processing of song material breathes a completely appropriate and never borrowed authenticity. It is precisely the polyphony in the approach, the meeting of determined appropriation and respectful homage, of textlessness and wit, of precision and playfulness, that increases the fun in the music.
The fact that “Wherever You…

“With the jester’s freedom and musical genius to transform guitar music into brass music, in reflections of fragments, with improvised turns and daring new perspectives. “With God on Our Side” and empowered by Dylan’s motto “If dogs run free, then why not we”. …. If I wasn’t already a brass addict, I’d be hooked.”

“… Which also speaks for this album: You will hear it several times, with growing pleasure. It is a work that pays homage to Dylan’s compositions in an independent and unconventional, musically convincing way. Very well done.”

“Alternating between genuine marching band atmosphere and free jazz, they elicit a hymnic power from Dylan’s songs, which come from the most diverse creative phases, which is rarely brought out in this way. Without betraying the originals, they turn Dylan’s works into completely new pieces. … What Absolutely Sweet Marie are offering here is not…