Description
Le renouveau de la scène Jazz Allemande
Le quintet allemand Fazer est un symbole du renouveau du jazz allemand. Les munichois s’inspirent autant de la pop expérimentale de Talk Talk, de Fela Kuti, du krautrock de Can que de Freddie Hubbard ou Chick Corea.
Avec ses deux batteurs, Fazer a son groove polyrythmique personnel pendant que la trompette spirituelle, la guitare subtile et sa basse sautillante font des merveilles.
A l’image de Grenadier, thème entêtant, l’album Plex ouvre de nouveaux espaces de possiblités et vous restera en tête pendant un long moment.
BIO :
Fazer are: Martin Brugger, Paul Brändle, Matthias Lindermayr, Simon Popp und Sebastian Wolfgruber.
Moving freely between composition and improvisation, the band’s spacious, organic sound pitches lyrical melodies from guitar and trumpet over dual-drummer polyrhythmic grooves and dub-like basslines with a distinct EthioJazz vibe.
Celebrating the signing of the quintet to City Slang, label founder Christof Ellinghaus went on record: “When you get introduced to a guy, at 4am in the morning, in the sweet spot on the main floor at Berghain, during the first ever set there of the one and only d&b legend Goldie… it’s not like any conversation will make a whole lot of sense, or reach certain depth… but, at least you can exchange numbers. What could possibly go wrong? And sure enough, this chance meeting with a guy from Munich, who turns out to be Martin Brugger in FAZER, well… it lead to him sending us music, and us flipping out over the unique post rock textures in their very Teutonic cup of jazz. Listening to FAZER immediately took us back to our own glorious Tortoise days, but then here’s a bunch of musicians from Munich picking up the baton and running with it, turning it into their own groove machine? Well, count us in! »