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Depart

Refire

Depart — Refire (July 29, 2014)

Depart — Refire

••• “Jejich způsob poskytování zábavy zahrnuje hudební propracovanost, inteligenci a řemeslo, společně s dobrým vkusem, vtipnou hrou a vynalézavostí,” píše jazzový kritik Christian Rentsch ve svých poznámkách.

Location: Vienna, Zürich, Bratislava, New York

Album release: June (EU)/July 29 (USA), 2014

Record Label: Intakt Records

Duration: 54:50

Tracks:

01. Talking 58 (4:08)

02. Chambers' Room (4:22)

03. Choral (4:52)

04. Barrock (5:34)

05. Funky Straight (4:31)

06. Bass Folk Song (2:32)

07. Erzherzog-Johann-Jodler (6:11)

08. Happy Happy (4:43)

09. Peace On My Mind (3:24)

10. Juggle In (2:30)

11. Guggisberglied (4:48)

12. Seven In Heaven (4:58)

13. Alpine Mood (2:17)

Personnel:

• Harry Sokal — Tenor & Soprano Sax, Effects

• Heiri Kanzig — Bass

• Martin Valihora — Drums

Label: http://www.intaktrec.ch/241-a.htm

CREDITS:

→ Recorded June 1 — 3, 2013, by Andy Neresheimer at Hardstudios Winterthur for

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen. Recording producer for SRF: Peter Bürli. Edited,

mixed and mastered by Harry Sokal at Marchfi eld Studio, Breitstetten, Austria. Liner

notes: Christian Rentsch. Photos: Francesca Pfeffer. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder.

Produced by Depart and Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt.

→ Intakt CD 241

ERSCHEINUNGDATUM EUROPA: MITTE JUNI 2014

RELEASE DATE USA: JULY, 29, 2014

MAILORDER-PRICE:

Schweiz: 30 SFr. plus 3 SFr. Porto/Versand

Description:

→ Eine überaus explosive und groovende Musik: Das neue Album in neuer Besetzung mit dem Wiener Saxophonisten Harry Sokal, dem Zürcher Bassisten Heiri Känzig und jungen, zwischen Bratislava und New York pendelnden slowakischen Schlagzeuger Martin Valihora läutet eine neue musiklische Ära von DEPART ein.

→ DEPART ist ein fester Bestandteil der europäischen Jazzinnovation. Nach bald dreissig Jahren Zusammenspiel folgt auf Intakt Records das REFIRE. «Unsere Musik ist unvorhersehbarer und überraschender geworden», sagt Harry Sokal. «Das macht die Spannung und Spontaneität aus, von der unsere Musik lebt.»

→ Aufgenommen in den Hard Studios in Winterthur versammelt das Album 13 Stücke, die meisten aus der Feder von Heiri Känzig. Es brodelt, pulsiert, groovt in mitreissender Perfektion. «Zu ihrer Art zu unterhalten gehören musikalische Raffinesse, Intelligenz und Handwerk ebenso wie ein sicherer Geschmack, Spielwitz und Verspieltheit», schreibt der Jazzkritiker Christian Rentsch in den Linernotes.

In eng:

→ The new album by the trio DEPART contains highly explosive, groove based music. Three very talented musicians form the new line-up: saxophonist Harry Sokal from Vienna, bass player Heiri Känzig from Zurich and the young drummer Martin Valihora from Slovakia who commutes between Bratislava and New York. Together they break new ground. This is DEPART's step into a new era.

→ DEPART is a crucial part of the European innovation in jazz. After 30 years of existence the band now releases their album REFIRE on Intakt Records. Sokal says: "But above all our music has become unpredictable and surprising again. Within a precisely delineated framework we have all three become more capricious; that ensures the tension and spontaneity which keeps our music alive."

→ Recorded in the 'Hard Studios' in the city of Winterthur, Switzerland the album contains 13 pieces most of them composed by Heiri Känzig. The music boils, pulsates and grooves in rousing perfection. "Their way of providing entertainment involves musical sophistication, intelligence and craft, along with good taste, witty playing and inventiveness," writes jazz critic Christian Rentsch in the liner notes

Deutschland/Österreich: 18 Euro plus 3 Euro Porto/Versand

REVIEW

Patrick Spanko, Skjazz, Bratislava, 9. 6.2014; Score: 5/5

•→ Nová éra skupiny Depart práve začína s novým albumom Refire, práve prichádzajúcim na trh vo švajčiarskom vydavateľstve Intakt Records, ktoré práve oslavuje svoje 30.narodeniny! Nenormálne explozívna a groovujúca hudba v podaní tria známych hudobníkov — to je nový album s názvom Refire formácie Depart s pozmeneným obsadením: viedenský saxofonista Harry Sokal patrí k najlepším v Európe, z Zürichu pochádzajúci mimoriadne spoľahlivý kontrabasista Heiri Känzig a medzi Bratislavou a New Yorkom pendlujúci bubeník Martin Valihora, ktorý ma bohaté medzinárodné skúsenosti napriek mladému veku. Album obsahuje 13 kompozícií, všetko od Sokala a Känziga, až na dve výnimky. “Naša hudba sa opäť stala nepredvídateľnou a prekvapujúcou. V rámci prísneho rámca máme teraz všetci traja viac priestoru, ktorý zaisťuje napätie a spontánnosť, ktoré udržujú našu hudbu nažive” — hovorí Harry Sokal. Groovy, vzrušenie, napätie, excelentné výkony — jednoducho super album! (:: http://www.intaktrec.ch/rev241-a.htm)

REVIEW

John Fordham

The Guardian, Thursday 4 September 2014 21.05 BST; Score: ***

•→ For anyone familiar with Swiss label Intakt’s frequently cutting-edge output, this trio set by Austrian saxophonist Harry Sokal might seem indecently funky. But Sokal, who played in star American trumpeter Art Farmer’s group for 20 years and is a key figure in the Vienna Art Orchestra, plays a very capricious kind of what he describes as “groove music” on the latest from his 30-year-old Depart trio. Seven of the 13 tight pieces here are by Sokal’s longtime bassist, Heiri Känzig, and the prodding bass riff, in 5/8 time, and wah-wah-assisted sax of the opening Talking 58 is typical of the pair’s direct-sounding but seductively knotty music. Chambers’ Room sounds like bebop over a rocking jazz-funk riff, but played on a bowed acoustic bass. Funky Straight has a catchy, twisting melody against Martin Valihora’s slamming drums. The folksy Erzherzog-Johann-Jodler, meanwhile, could almost be a Sonny Rollins feature — but one delivered in electronically generated sax chords. On the gently curling Peace on My Mind, Sokal shows what a subtle player of an unadorned acoustic ballad he can be. It’s the kind of dynamic jazz set that creates converts.

Fortaken: http://www.theguardian.com/

Website: http://www.departjazz.com/

Website Harry Sokal: http://www.harrysokal.com/de/home-depart.html

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcwwdVYf2kE

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