15.02.2012, 20.30 clock JAZZANOVA LIVE feat. PAUL RANDOLPH

Wednesday, 15.02.2012, 20.30 clock JAZZANOVA LIVE feat. PAUL RANDOLPH

For 15 years, the Berlin collective a fixture on the international dancefloors. In conjunction with the Munich-based Compost label Jazzanova had a style icon for the so-called nujazz, the jazzy sounds of the small clubs and concert Fanzirkeln brought back into the general-grade dance halls. Provided since 1997 with the Jazzanova uptempo jazz-Brazil-number "Fedime's Flight," an international sensation, they are indispensable as DJs, remixers and producers and owners of the Sonar Kollektiv label in the music landscape. For a huge surprise was Jazzanova, as one the Jazz, Brazilian, Latin, boogie, soul, folk, and rock-heavy soundtrack, experimental fusion of house, drum & bass, jungle, trip hop, nu jazz, hip hop and musical unifying concept with a nine-member cast three years ago brought to the festival stages. Since then, the band toured with great success throughout the world. For next spring, a new live CD has been announced. The program includes live Jazzanova tracks, remixes and compositions by Paul Randolph and Jazzanova for the band. Singer and bassist Paul Randolph is from Detroit and has worked with greats such as Carl Craig, Amp Fiddler and Moodyman. In addition, Axel Reinemer and Stefan Sebastian Leisenring and Studnitzky Arne Jansen, Paul Glue, Stefan Ulrich, Sebastian Borkowski and Michael Ingersoll grave is one of the party. Jazzanova Live is attrakiv for a wide audience, because here electro, jazz, soul and funk mix across genres.

Monday, 20.02.2012, 20.00 clock HIDDEN ORCHESTRA & NOSTALGIA 77 Finest Sounds of British Jazz Today - Double Concerto

After the most inspiring British Jazz Week last year presenting itself today in a double concert two involve the most interesting recent, not only for nu-jazz guru Gilles Peterson highly recommended, groups of the British jazz scene, the variety of influences into their current and controversial merger.

Nostalgia 77 is the brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and producer Ben Lamdin, for which he crosses hip-hop beats with jazz, funk and psychedelic moments. Effects of Free and Spiritual jazz, 60's funk and Afro sounds combine to create a visionary sound structure in which the bluesy-folky songs of the great Berlin singer Josa whips, tösende organ sounds, tenderly played drums and warm-sounding bass with great charm, therefore, . come Kit Downes on piano, with his trio at the British Jazz Week enthusiastic. Much attention was the latest Nostalgia 77 album "The Sleep Walking Society".

The native of Edinburgh Hidden Orchestra to the classically trained multi-instrumentalist Joe Acheson Quartet succeeds in supposedly more economical line-up in an impressive way, the opulent music of their elaborately produced debut album "Night Walks" translate live. Created with two drummers, deep bass, keyboards, acoustic and electronic sounds an epic, sometimes gloomy, suggests almost psychedelic sound, the influences of Debussy to Aphex Twin to Radiohead, Squarepusher and Gene Krupa.