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Happy Release Day: Quadro Nuevo – December

music & spirit for the cold season

The new album of the world music ensemble Quadro Nuevo is dedicated to the wintry mood. The musicians, who have already released three Christmas albums in their long band history since 1996, do not see December as another work of this genre, but nevertheless they interpret melodies of religious or spiritual origin on it.

They opine:
“Figures like Jesus, Mary and Joseph were formative for our occidental mindset. Regardless of whether one is a believer, whether one understands them as historical persons or as myths, their story can give us orientation.
In the course of life, we can move away from them, lose track of them, reinterpret them again and again, and approach them again. Especially in the darkest time of the year, we reflect particularly intensely.

More infos: https://www.glm.de/en/product/quadro-nuevo-december/

Listen to the music: https://glmmusic.de/DecemberWE

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Happy Release Day: Stefan Koschitzki & Fabiano Pereira – Brazilian Blues Vol. II

Already the title-giving play on words “Brazilian Blues” breaks with relish with hardened-traditional ways of looking at what Brazilian music is and what the blues may be. Knowing full well how juvenile-moving the essence of music constantly seeks new points of contact and forms of expression, Stefan Koschitzki and Fabiano Pereira bypass all phrase-mongering on their new album “Brazilian Blues Vol. II”. The two musicians, arrangers and composers see their project “Brazilian Blues” as a vehicle for the constant expansion of their collective musical language. It is about respectable things throughout: searching and finding new attitudes and current perspectives on traditional music styles such as blues and bossa nova. Of course, you have to understand the subtle nuances of both styles first…

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Happy Release Day: Duo Oltheten-Gomide – BRASIS

Brazil was declared the “Land of Bossa Nova” with the million-fold success of the album “Getz/Gilberto” in the 1960s, as if it had been transformed overnight into the figurehead or postcard of a single musical style. But this was far from being a new phenomenon for the country. Years before, Carmen Miranda had already enchanted Hollywood, with the result that not only Brazil but all of South America was reduced to one figure: the stereotype of the cheerful, exuberantly partying, carnivalesque and naive samba musician.

In a bid to introduce the world to an underwater part of this musical iceberg that is Brazil, the duo of Daphne Oltheten (violin) and Henrique Gomide (piano) delve into the works of previously little-known composers. Some of the collected beauties can be found among the 12 tracks on this album, which couldn’t have been more aptly named: “Brasis”, in Portuguese the plural of Brazil (Brasil).

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Happy Release Day: Christian Winninghoff – CLOUD SOUNDS

As for so many people, the two pandemic years were a challenging time in many respects for creatives like Cologne trumpeter, composer and arranger Christian Winninghoff, a member of the Jazzkantine and the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. Because jazz from the ivory tower was never his thing. His music has always sounded energetic and groovy, more suitable for the atmosphere of a densely packed, heated club than for a ventilated concert hall with a masked audience, possibly even arranged in a checkerboard pattern.

In the prescribed retreat – after what felt like half a life with concerts, shows and theatrical performances almost every weekend – so now a lot of time to concentrate on the essentials: Sound and expression! The goal: soul music. His compositions have always had fragile and lyrical moments and Christian’s fourth album CLOUD SOUNDS almost became a pure song or ballad album.

More infos: https://www.glm.de/en/product/christian-winninghoff-cloud-sounds/

Listen to the music: https://glmmusic.de/CloudSoundsWE

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Happy Release Day: Cornelius Claudio Kreusch – Eye of the storm

The great writer Gertrude Stein once said: “Jazz is tenderness and powerful violence.” A definition that has shaped the pianist Cornelius Claudio Kreusch already at the beginning of his career – and which now again perfectly applies to his new album “Eye of the Storm”. Whereby improvisation as the primal ground of these strong forms of expression is absolutely part of it.

And yet “Eye of the Storm” is now something completely different, something new. Not only because, in contrast to the often well-prepared confrontation with freedom in the past, it really was a spontaneous leap into the deep end. But above all because “for the first time I had the feeling of being an adult as an artist,” as Kreusch tells us. “Until now, the great predecessors and role models were always a source of inspiration. This time I was completely with myself from the first note.

A maturity and independence that you can hear on the album. Everything is an expression of the dazzling personality of Cornelius Claudio Kreusch, who is as extroverted and spiritual as he is grounded and consistent. As wild as it can get with the musical storm of thoughts, an almost classical undertone, immersed in inner listening, is dominant. And as much as every note, every chord, every change, every touch is unmistakably Kreusch, at the same time he succeeds in giving each improvisation part its own note.

More infos: https://www.glm.de/en/product/cornelius-claudio-kreusch-eye-of-the-storm/

Listen to the music: https://glmmusic.de/EyeoftheStormWE