About the album
Ingrid Lukas (vocals), Rafael Baier (woodwinds, composition), Chris Gall (piano, rhodes, keys), Christoph Keller (electronic fx, loops, dj), Claudio Strebel (upright bass), Jürg Mikula (drums), Willy Kotoun (acoustic fx, percussion)
"Solitude" tells a story. A story that has often served as inspiration in many art genres (in literature, music and painting). It is a story of the fantastic mermaid Undine, who exists in different forms in numerous mythologies. As with other demigods and fabulous creatures, she only gets a soul after marrying a human. But the love affair usually ends unhappily. Rafael Baier has composed a concept album from this with numerous magical moments. His band – the members of which are all proven and enthusiastic tinkers with sound as he is – create a world of sounds from this as you can only rarely hear.
The group has consciously avoided any categorization and instead borrows from all genres. The motto was that everything is used that is suitable for telling the story with tones. The surprising thing is that no hodgepodge results despite the mixture of stylistic elements from pop, avant-garde, jazz, dancefloor, etc., but instead a kind of "total art work".
"Solitude" - Einsamkeit - erz�hlt die Geschichte des fabelhaften weiblichen Wasserwesens Undine. Rafael Baier komponierte hieraus ein Konzeptalbum mit zahlreichen magischen Momenten, seine Band l�sst daraus einen kleinen Klangkosmos entstehen, wie man ihn nur selten h�rt. Kategorisierungen hat sich das Ensemble gezielt verschlossen, es wird verwendet, was geeignet ist, die Geschichte mit T�nen zu erz�hlen. Das Erstaunliche ist, dass trotz der Mixtur aus Stilelementen des Pop, der Avantgarde, dem Jazz, dem Dancefloor etc. keine Beliebigkeit entsteht, sondern eine Art "Gesamtkunstwerk".
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