Neue Musik aus Berlin: Alle Richtungen

TAU is best known for the music of the German jazz and improvisation genre. Ihr zweites Album „Chants“ is an Entdeckungs- en Erweckungserlebnis.

Well-known face at the band TAU Photo: Benji

Was for a wilder Ritt, was for a Klangkaleidoskop! That thinks a man is unwanted, if he is a new album of the Jazz-Experimental-Band STONE short. In the song “Deadpan” and the brutal entrance of the Synthesizer-Sounds, it is a rambling Beat that sees a direction Club-Dancefloor, while radiating an organ-like sound, which all goes out on a saxophone.

In “Ice Breaker” then the Broken Beats is a stuttering, stuttering rhythm is heard, where the synthesizer and the saxophone play with flächigen, sound a counterpart image and are a long sound.

All that is written on it can be heard “Songs”dem zweiten Album des Quintetts (“Chants” in Wortsinne, also Gesänge, since darauf übrigens gar nicht vertreten). TAU best has fun musicians, who are well-known in the German and Berlin Jazz and Improvisation societies: Am Schlagzeug sits with Moritz Baumgärtner, the saxophonist is Philipp Gropper, Philip Zoubek plays Keyboard, the Electronica-steuert Ludwig Wandinger, the Bass player Felix Henkelhausen .

The 13 tracks are a tribute, but they are still musically oriented: Mal shines through the electronic subgenre Footwork, then you find a second jazz mystery in the Bohren and the Club Of Gore or John Coltrane Atmo, then you feel like listening to a good crime soundtrack, the maximalist madness in Anlehnung and Aphex Twin expands its power. So Jazz 2024 must be heard.