Search - Manfred Schoof;Matthias Schriefl;Conny Bauer;Hans Reichel;Ute Volker;Wolfgang Schmidtke;Christian Ramond;Peter Weiss :: Heimatlieder

Matthias Schriefl & Manfred Schoof (trumpet), Wolfgang Schmidtke (saxophones), Conny Bauer (trombone), Hans Reichel (daxophon), Ute Völker (accordion), Christian Ramond (double bass), Peter Weiss (drums)
Recorded November 10, 2007 at Nachtfoyer der Wuppertaler Bühnen & November 19, 2007 at Loft, Köln, Germany
The project 'Heimatlieder is a production of the NRW Jazz Pool under the direction of Peter Weiss and Wolfgang Schmidtke. The NRW Jazz Pool had set its autumn project 2007 in a tonal cabinet of curiosities. There is a big reservoir of melodic material that accompanies different places in the history of the republic, flattering or counteracting. A roundel of small and smallest pieces, that could barely blind oneself from it. Jingles, signature tunes of the public television, beat music, celebratory chants. The hits of the good living room and the stadium. Music that has become in different ways to daily grind melodies develops a very direct contemporary historical document that reveals a lot about taste, ideology and sensitivities. Constant companions of the younger past that face up to the transformation by improvised music. This was not handled romantically and sentimentally but instead in a critical and winking manner with musical heritage. The result is not supposed to sound insubstantial however, scurrility and irony are also a good aesthetic ground.