David Friedman, Tilo Weber, Oliver Potratz – Surge Of Silence (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:37 minutes | 860 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Malletmuse Records
Sometimes, seemingly unrelated events come together. Many years ago when I was busy doing studio work in New York, I met the young recording engineer Marti Robertson, who impressed all the heavy studio cats with her great expertise and charisma.
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Oli Bott, Markus Stockhausen, Oliver Potratz, Eric Schaefer – Content-Blue (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:41 minutes | 643 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © O-tone
The path as a goal – The story of the recording “Content” by Roman Rhode. The seven tracks are snapshots. Oli Bott simply calls them “content”. In both senses of the word. For the recordings reflect both the quartet’s joy in playing and the content: compositions reduced to the essentials that offer an astonishing amount of room for interaction and improvisation. In them, Bott, a cross-genre musician, composer and arranger, conveys his own vision of jazz: as freedom for personal development. “Nothing was rehearsed, nothing counted on,” Bott says. “We had no idea how it would start and how it would end, when the theme would come, who would improvise when.”
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