Cologne pianist and composer Simon Russell wrote these compositions, melding jazz, classical, electronic, even tango music into lyrical and joyfully quirky works, performed by his ensemble with Goerg Wissel, Matthias Muche, Udo Moll, Carl Ludwig Hubsch, &c.
Label: Umlaut Records Catalog ID: umfr-cd19 Squidco Product Code: 21956
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2016 Country: Sweden / France / Germany Packaging: Fold out card stock envelope in plastic sleeve w/ various cards and pictures included Tracks 2, 4, 9, 11 recorded at LOFT, Cologne, Germany, on February 22nd 2013 by Stefan Deistler.
Track 5 recorded live at "Temporary Art Tower", in Cologne, Germany on Feburary 21, 2014 by Jonathan Hoffman.
All other tracks recorded live at Tersteegen Church, in Cologne, Germany on October 14th, 2014 by Georg Bongartz
"Cologne is a historical ground for experimental music, from the most underground to the most legitimate. To this day the jazz and impro- vised music scene is still florishing there. Simon Rummel is, whithout a doubt, its most baffling and exciting actor, the most futile and therefore the most useful, the most absurd, hence, the most important. Let's be serious, at a time when the whole planet trembles at the thought of a man with such a bad hair-style as Donald Trump becom- ing president of the US, in those dark times when the zyka mosquito threatens the real-estate added values linked to the organisation of the Olympics in Brazil, is it tasteful to write jazz in major and in 3/4 ? With total impunity, Simmon Rummel did no just create this orchestra which instrumentation would have probably displeased Hector Berlioz, he also put the musicians in a situation where it seems anything could happen - and where lots of things actually do happen - where music is so light it becomesflighty, taking turns at any moment and revealing behind the curve a solo of lofi electronic vocal, a tango dressed as a popular ball, a noisy and sophisticated improvisation, a lyrical and exalted audience, and from time to time, some exquisite courtesy."-Umlaut