close to mars
2 years ago Close To Mars started to collect musical ideas during live-sessions. Collectively the band members have been experimenting with those ideas. It is characteristic for this formation to surprise the audience by availing themselves of a variaty of different musical styles.
The songs reach from lounge and ambient over to drum & bass and even to ethno. Emphasis is given to the compositions as opposed to the abilities of the musicians in playing outstanding solos.
Longterm colaboration allows to convincingly perform realtime instant-composing on stage. The mixture of well arranged song fragments with untied improvisations turns each performance into a new experience. The clear song structures are retained allowing the listener to easily follow and enjoy.
The Band:
Dave Feusi – saxes
Felix Utzinger – guitar, noise
Roland Koeppel – Hammond B3, nordlead
Andreas Schnyder – drums, samples
homepage: www.closetomars.com
Injaztigator
As a band of the Here and Now, INJAZTIGATOR seeks on their second concept album „Return to a Past Future“ a connection with the traces of the space age. What remains of the utopias of the past? Have our dreams turned to sobriety? Which elements of the old TV series fascinated us so much?
The music swings between then and now, it takes us along on a trip into a future long past. It allows us to glide through distant worlds seated in the cockpit of a space vessel. Old dreams arise and let the sounds of the past collide with those of the future. The music shoots full speed ahead through the Milky Way like a rocket. It encounters aliens, plunges into lunar seas and lands on Sirius B. And in the end it races through glistening stroboscopic light into the black holes of infinity.
martin lechner band
It’s hard to find someone with plenty of intuition and a unique voice who is able to connect jazz and soul on an absolutely professional level.
Martin Lechner is gifted with a supreme voice and uses it confidently and easily as if he hasn’t ever done otherwise (during his whole life) – freshly, modestly and ingeniously. An exceptional appearance who can’t be better be described as being a natural. His congenial and easy way lets the music breath in a soulful manner, which reminds us of Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra or Marvin Gave. The timbre of his voice, his phrasing and power of interpretation captivate the listener irresistibly.
Martin Lechner sings his songs in the style of the 50ties, amongst them songs from Nat King Cole as well as modern tunes such as “Valerie” known from Amy Winehouse, which are performed as swing versions.
Martin Lechner – voc
Dave Feusi – sax
Oliver Keller – guit
Roland Köppel – piano
Patrick Sommer – bass
Andreas Schnyder – drums
voice it
Jazz-pop and popular jazz, which avoids any banality.
The quartet “Voice It” combines virtuosity with great entertainment. “Voice It” consists of four musicians who are established members of the Swiss jazz scene.
They underplay their exceptional abilities in favour of their versatile songs resulting in stylish and truthful jazz classics.
“Voice It” combine nostalgia with juvenile freshness, presenting jazz jewels in new clothes: “Softly As In A Morning Sunrise ” is presented in a funky version, which forcibly makes the audience feel like dancing. “Summertime” comes with jazzy vocals and subtly grooving rhythms, whereas “Cherokee” lets you drift back to ancient times – even though you might not have lived through them
voice it are:
Lisette Spinnler – vocals
Roland Köppel – piano, keyboards
Michael Chylewski – bass
Andreas Schnyder – drums
guest musician:
Dave Feusi – tenor- / soprano saxophone
elliott marks group
Elliott Marks: guitar
Roland Köppel: hammond B3
Michael Chylewski: bass
Andreas Schnyder: drums
Since the early 80ies, England born Elliott Marks has become all over Europe a most respected and recognized blues guitarist and singer who has committed himself to the pithy and torrentially pulsating sound of the Chicago and Texas Blues. He founded his reputation between 1980 and 1990 as a session guitarist in swinging London .
With his new band project, he again proves himself as a true champion of mood packed musicality, supported by the excellence and sensitivity of his three young co-musicians. Be it in the field of melancholy-slow, groovy melodies or tensely-fast, hard rhythms, Marks easily produces any desired mood on the grounds of his incredible technique and his emotional spectrum, turning out to be at the same time a fabulous, convincing vocalist. Blues addicts will find it practically impossible to get out of the reach of his play’s dense, stirring and atmosphere packed spell. His widespread, timeless blues just overcomes, overwhelms and lasts.
This band offers in best technical perfection a concentrated mega load of blues feeling, reaching from hard boiled hammering to melancholy sensitiveness and dragging up every connoisseur of the subject without fail.
Once you got it….