Felix Hauptmann / Leif Berger / Roger Kintopf - PERCUSSION (February 18, 2022 Boomslang Records)

1. a present. a picture 04:18

2. drift 05:28

3. black water 08:34

4. ballad for clouds 03:31

5. for m 03:31

6. once 07:40

7. laye 07:25

Felix Hauptmann, piano

Leif Berger, drums

Roger Kintopf, upright bass

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AMOK AMOR (Peter Evans / Christian Lillinger / Petter Eldh / Wanja Slavin) March 2021 Boomslang Records

The provocative band name „Amok Amor“, sounds truly promising, considering the members of this German- American- Swedish formation can certainly not be viewed as a tender loving group. They ride a merciless attack and leave the listener after thirty-six eventful minutes totally exhausted and yet extremely happy behind. Three members of the quartet are well experienced as an already existing trio.

They live in Berlin and have for many years been supporting the city’s jazz life in numerous constellations and with decisive impulses. Wanja Slavin (33) the alto saxophone player and ECHO Jazz Award winner, Swedish bass player Petter Eldh (since 2009 active in Berlin) plus Germany’s most agile and unpredictable drummer, Christian Lillinger (31) recorded with “Starlight” an already rousing album, released under the Suisse label Unit Records.

Ulrich Steinmetzger’s evaluation of this production in the magazine „Jazz Thing: „This CD is a perfect example for the vitality of a never ending young metropolitan jazz scene, constantly moving forward while escaping the experimental hermetic towards integrating various elements deriving from the participant’s musical and other social essences and bringing all of this together in a relaxed and well considered combination“.

This trio, praised by the above mentioned hymn has now engaged in a mutual operation with an excellent and versatile trumpet player, the American Peter Evans (34) who is among other famous for being a long lasting member of the group „Mostly Other People Do The Killing“ (he has meanwhile left the group).

In a quartet, the two Germans, the Swede and the man from the United States developed an enormous spin on their album „Amok Amor“, a contagious and outraging energy and a breathtaking power. Somehow they have internalized the spirit of the wild sixties and yet their music is incorporated in the here and now. It is music drawn out of common categories.

Rhythm is prolonged here and accelerated plus artistically maneuvered and unconventionally accentuated until the bar lines tremble. Barely signalized melody shreds are added while wild and fast themes often tightly embrace the brass players. Incomparable and ludicrous tempi are added by Petter Eldh, Christian Lillinger, Wanja Slavin and Peter Evans in distinct compact pieces with such beautiful titles like „Manipulating II“, „Sons of Angels“, Born As A Socialist“ or „Axis Of The Good“ and which are without any garrulousness despite the immense information tightness.

This over active and yet controlled amok run is not killing – it is reviving! The „Amok Amor” – listeners will moreover question where these four members drew their strength, their motivation, their naturalness, their chuzpe and their incentive.

1. Manipulieren II 03:46

2. Amor 01:27

3. Sons of Engels - Marx 05:41

4. The Resistance 04:54

5. Rowk 05:39

6. Als Sozialist geboren 03:37

7. Mani 3 - Achse des Guten 07:20

8. Amok 04:01

AMOK AMOR are:

Petter Eldh, bass

Christian Lillinger, drums

Wanja Slavin, sax

Peter Evans, trumpet

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Almut Kühne / Joke Lanz / Alfred Vogel - How Noisy Are The Rooms? (March 2021 Boomslang Records)

HOW NOISY ARE THE ROOMS? represent an extremely provocative view of creative anarchy. Concentrated energy from three components that constantly run against each other puts the listener in the state of a pinball machine action: Mercilessly tossed back and forth, never comes to a rest, always at all points at the same time: Noise meets Trip-Hop meets Jazz!

HOW NOISY ARE THE ROOMS? are Berlin based vocal maniac Almut Kühne who is a classically trained singer and piano player, Swiss turntable wizard Joke Lanz well known for his Sudden Infant Noise-Rock project and Austrian drum-magician Alfred Vogel who is the driving force behind profiled Bezau Beatz festival. These three extremists hit it off right away without compromise!

A soulful voice seemingly evoking distant cultures, a labyrinth full of epileptic sounds, and a vigorous ritualistic percussion, these are the ingredients of HNATR. Sweet dreams are called chaos! A wonderful chaos in itself!

1. The Return of the Ah 02:35

2. Sim Sim Sum 03:28

3. Love Song 06:04

4. White Lines and Fresh Air 02:52

5. iGlow 04:46

6. Amma Chenne Cha 03:43

7. Detox Zombie Porridge 06:13

8. Rrrrub 03:36

9. Numèro 26 04:37

10. Heart Attack 03:48

11. How Noisy Are The Rooms? 04:19

Almut Kühne, vocals

Joke Lanz, turntables

Alfred Vogel, drums & percussion

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INTENSIVSTATION: John Schröder / Wolfgang Zwiauer / Alfred Vogel - POWWOW​!​!​! (BOOMSLANG RECORDS November 9, 2018)

“It is a very rare thing to hear complex music being played in such a relaxed and soulful manner” (jazzthing, Götz Bühler) 

John Schröder is a multiinstrumentalist and kind of a Free Jazz Godfather from Berlin. No matter if he is playing drums for Nils Wogram or guitar for Erdmann 3000, nor piano in his trio – he is always on the edge of artistry! In this certain trio, John is featured on 3 instruments which he is playing simultaneously. So the band sometimes sounds like a quartet or even quintet. Wolfgang Zwiauer on bass is probably one of the most desired musicians in Switzerland and together with Alfred Vogel the two men lay down serious multi-time layered grooves. 

Their second album POWWOW!!! will be released in Jan 2019 (Boomslang Records / distributed by Galileo Music GmbH.

Along comes 12 tracks monthly as a digital release starting November 2018 at this very place since the 3 doctores recorded so much music in the last 3 years which they like to share with you.

John Schröder: fender rhodes, guitar, drums 

Wolfgang Zwiauer: bass + electronics 

Alfred Vogel: drums 

recorded by Olli Rath (2015) and Alfred Vogel (2018) 

mixed and mastered by Alfred Vogel

1. Morpheus 11:56

Norbert Mayer / Alfred Vogel feat. Joe Bär - ÜÜÜ (BOOMSLANG RECORDS November 2, 2018)

We think about the world or not. Norbert Mayer the poet speaks out what needs to be said, sometimes in Bregenzerwald dialect, but always with german and english counter parts. What you don´t understand is catched up by the drums of Alfred Vogel and floored by the Tuba of Joe Bär ... humorous, serious, gentle, dense, and solid as a rock. Anyway improvised. In the moment. Spoken word meets an alpine rhythm section. You may laugh or cry. It doesn´t make a difference.

Norbert Mayer, words + vocals

Alfred Vogel, drums

Joe Bär, Tuba + loops

1. gäng und schpräng 03:56

2. höümilk hey! 03:22

3. künnö 03:37

4. lällarfüörz 02:09

5. nümma dicht 05:12

6. redo redo redo 03:27

7. schüö so schüö 05:05

8. ufschtau 04:01

9. und? 04:06

10. wia odr was? 03:43

Ronny Graupe / Laura Schuler / Alfred Vogel - Kwestia (BOOMSLANG RECORDS May 18, 2018)

KWESTIA is a band which invites you the listener to witness it´s progress. Due to different domestic places (an austrian alpine village named Bezau, the swiss city of Bern and Germany´s Berlin - let´s call it the golden triangle of Bs ...) the band meets in bigger intervals to record and tour and let you be part of how things are moving on ... therefore we choose bandcamp as a plattform where new tracks will be added as soon as they are available. 

Ronny Graupe´s work as a guitar player and writer is well recorded and demonstrates the fresh attitude of improvisers of the European Jazz Scene. His collaboration with bands like Hyper Active Kid (now Gropper / Graupe / Lillinger), Yellow Bird or Grand Seniors like Rolf Kühn a.m.o. proof him as a highly skilled virtuoso as well as a great composer of modern music.

Laura Schuler a former student of Graupe from the Bern Jazz School is a sensitive and highly creative string player and matches here with a wonderful light- and brightness between the dense and complex rhythms. Besides active solowork and bigger newmusic ensembles Schuler made herself a name also due to her collaboration with Graupe in a Band named Aberratio Ictus. She covers both worlds - the classic and jazz - with ease.

On drums the initiator of this project Alfred Vogel shows again his ability to drive crazy and hard as well as to fit in with sensitive brush work when the music longs for.

The compositions (for now mainly by Graupe) show an incredible matured songwriting and advanced structure. Despite of it´s complexity this music and by the way bassless trio sounds surprisingly poetic, dreamy and lightfeathered. Multiple timelayers and pulses delivered by all of the three are topped with deep sense of melody and harmony. If there is a category that might fit the concept it would be creative improvised music. And then there is a track like Latarnik with a quite poppy head.

But be aware it would change and progress ... to where?

In the modern music market artists might have more questions than ever. One question is, where their music can go to and how it will be received in a fastforward moving time ... therefor the given name is the polish word KWESTIA - which stands for the word QUESTION.

In their own words: "We don´t know where this project will lead us to. All we know is that it is wonderful music and that we played our hearts out on the recording session. We want to share it now with an interested audience and listener and hope to go out and play live ...!"

1. Ronny Graupe, Laura Schuler, Alfred Vogel - Drei 03:32

2. Ronny Graupe, Laura Schuler, Alfred Vogel - Zwei 06:47

3. Latarnik 09:15

4. Offday 02:23

5. Zwischen 06:11

Ronny Graupe (guitar)

Laura Schuler (violine)

Alfred Vogel (drums)