projects

experimentle band

contemporary jazz, folk, avantgarde, heavy metal

Five individuals create an explosive mixture between composed and improvised music. A band of established masters from the german jazzscene, who combine selfreliant improvisations, jazz-basics, technical perfection, soundphantasy and avantgarde music - that’s really an “experimentle”! (which means “small experiment” in Swabian!)
 

Andreas Wahl

electric and acoustic guitars, fretless-guitar, banjo

Peter Bolte

alto sax

Veit Lange

tenor sax, bass clarinet

Sebastian Räther

double-bass

Christoph Hillmann

drums

Solo

Minimal Music, Jazz Standards, rusty dusty Countrysounds, New Music, Folk, Loops, Live-Electronics....

Strange contradictions as well as absurd contrasts are working here in a foregone conclusion, melting to an incredible unity.
Besides orchestral sound walls and polyphonic cascades on the basis of loops and multiple delays the guitar is also to be experienced always in her pure and most intimate form:
Fragile, plain, touching, breathtaking.

Andreas Wahl   electric and acoustic guitars, fretless-guitar, loops, live-electronics

Zodiak Trio

high energy melodies, heavy grooves, spherical sounds

John-Dennis Renken has brought to life with this electric-acoustic 3 man occupation a formation in which the most different musical worlds meet. Lyrical-elegiac sound cascades meet rock-grooves and drum'n bass rhythms, succinct subjects contrast with powerful soli.

Zodiak! An about 20 degree wide zone around the sky ball within which the ostensible movements of the sun, moon and planets run off.

John-Dennis Renken trumpet, elektronics, composition Andreas Wahl electric and acoustic guitars, fretless-guitar, ebow, loops Bernd Oezsevim drums

Freie Wahl

Music for drumset, double bass
and different guitars

Ludicrous compositions, unconventional improvisations, by the way also sometimes a jazz standard embedded in unusual sounds, always risky and constantly looking for every possible playing option in contemporary improvisation: “FREIE WAHL” (which means “FREE CHOICE”)

Andreas Wahl electric and acoustic guitars Michael Kleinjohann double bass Christoph Hillmann drums

The Bliss

wild, eccentric, authentic, soft, dissonant, confounded, ecstasized, blissful.... the latest projekt of the saxophonist and composer Katrin Scherer.

Katrin Scherer alto sax, flute, composition John-Dennis Renken trumpet Sven Decker tenor sax, clarinet, bass-clarinet Andreas Wahl electric and acoustic guitars Sebastian Räther double-bass Christian Thomé drums

u.f.o. Unidentified Flying Orchestra

big band...

its very hot and very soft, it rocks, it swings!

This experimental orchestra with its leaders and composers Katrin Scherer and Sven Decker is very selfreliant and very cool!!

Hans-Martin Schnittker trumpet Sinje Gläsner trumpet, flugelhorn John-Dennis Renken trumpet Philip Schug trombone Max von Einem trombone Tobias Schütte bass-trombone Oleksandr Berezhny alto sax, soprano sax, flute Roman Sieweke alto sax, flute Sven Decker tenor sax, bass-clarinet, composition Katrin Scherer baritone sax, bass-clarinet, composition Andreas Wahl guitar Hartmut Kracht bass Nils Tegen drums

Sirius B

In his brand-new project drummer Bernd Oezsevim brings together some of the most exciting improvisors of the topical new German jazz scene.
Innovative improvisation concepts are constantly investigated to surprise in breathtaking manner over and over again.
The collective aim: The free flight!

Veit Lange tenor sax Andreas Wahl guitar, loops Sebastian Räther double-bass Bernd Oezsevim drums, percussion

The Dorf

Jan Klare makes the impossible happen!

"The Dorf" (formerly known as the "Off Domicil Orchestra") can be described as a band of jazz adventurers under the direction of Jan Klare, monthly playing in the Dortmund jazz club domicil since November 2006.
Every 3rd Thursday in the month an open pool of musicians come togehter. In the afternoon different concepts of improvisation as well as also composed pieces are rehearsed and then performed in the evening.
In the meantime a firm core emerged and the repertoire strengthened.
First concerts outside the Domicil e.g. on the JOE festival Esssen led to inspired reactions.

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