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Christy Doran's New Bag

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Format: CD
Label: Double Moon Records
UPC: 0608917111927
Catnr: DMCHR 71119
Release date: 26 April 2013
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Double Moon Records
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0608917111927
Catalogue number
DMCHR 71119
Release date
26 April 2013

"“It is very energetic,rocked and the voice of Sarah Buechi leads you to other worlds, atmospheres.”… “ the album only counts 40 min, I would have loved to have more”"

Le Soir, 17-6-2013
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Old Bottle, New Wine: The band, which continually redefines itself, has again developed an exciting new routine, in part with new band members too: Sarah Buechi (voice), Vincent Membrez (moog-bass-synth & rhodes), Lionel Friedli (dr) and Christy Doran (e-guitar & compositions) are starting a new era of the "New Bag". The message remains the same: intensive yearning for crazy musical adventures, and consistent resistance against any categorization! These special characteristics of the band with apparently disregard for current trends in music have not been lost, but instead reinforced. While Bruno Amstad chased his rumbling to hysterical scats across mad guitar runs, the best singer in Switzerland does that today: Sarah Buechi. Her insane leaps of intervals always land at precisely the right spot, the pictures in sounds nuzzle up to the band sound, and new tonal qualities from her rich treasure chest of Indian music complement the already very varied world of sounds. She does not lose her cool either when her co-musicians floor the gas pedal; with the primeval sound from the moog, which not only replaces the bass, but instead really perfects the sound and with which of course an unlimited number of possibilities are provided, with the typical driving force of the Fender Rhodes and added to the pulsating grooves of a thrifty but penetrating drum set and – last but not least – the weirdest riffs and runs since the invention of the electric guitar such as only Christy Doran can provide.
Old Bottle, New Wine: Die Band, die sich ständig neu erfindet, hat wieder einmal ein spannendes neues Programm entwickelt, mit teilweise auch neuem Personal: Sarah Buechi/voice, Vincent Membrez/moog-bass-synth & rhodes, Lionel Friedli/dr und Christy Doran (e-git & composition) starten eine neue Ära der "New Bag". Die Message bleibt: intensive Lust an verrückten musikalischen Abenteuern, und konsequenter Widerstand gegen jegliche Schubladisierung! Diese besonderen Kennzeichen der offensichtlich völlig aus der Zeit gefallenen Band haben sich durch den Personalwechsel eben nicht aufgelöst, sondern eher noch zementiert. Hatte einst Bruno Amstad über irrwitzige Gitarrenläufe seine grummelnden bis hysterischen Scats gejagt, so erledigt dies heute eine der besten Sängerinnen der Schweiz: Sarah Buechi. Ihre wahnwitzigen Intervallsprünge landen immer punktgenau, die Soundmalereien schmiegen sich in den Bandsound, neue Klangfarben aus ihrem reichhaltigen indischen Erfahrungsschatz ergänzen die ohnehin schon bunte Soundwelt. Sie gerät auch nicht aus der Contenance, wenn ihre Kollegen wie gewohnt das Gaspedal voll durch drücken: mit dem Ur-Sound aus dem Moog, der den Bass nicht nur ersetzt, sondern regelrecht krönt und mit dem natürlich noch unendlich viel mehr möglich ist, mit dem Fender Rhodes-typischen Treibstoff, dazu die jagenden Grooves eines sparsamen und doch eindringlichen Drumsets – und last but not least die schrägsten Riffs und Läufe seit Erfindung der Stromgitarre. Wie sie eben nur ein Christy Doran abliefern kann.

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Christy Doran

Born in Dublin, Ireland, living in Lucerne/CH 'Celebrated Swiss guitarist CHRISTY DORAN assets pertain to his indefatigable creative sparks, evidenced by his work in jazz-rock, avant-garde jazz improvisation or when tackling world music. And from a fundamental shedding perspective, he could hold his own with most if not all of the present guitar heroes.' GLENN ASTARITA, New York (AAJ) Christy became internationally known thanks to his collaboration in the 'electric jazz/free music' group 'OM' (1972-82 and 2006 to present). The trio 'RED TWIST & TUNED ARROW' (1985-87, with Stephan Wittwer and Fredy Studer) and the project 'DORAN-STUDER-MINTON-BATES & ALI play the music of JIMI HENDRIX' (1990-94), (later “STUCKY-DORAN-STUDER & TACUMA / JORDI)” received rapid international recognition in the field of tension of...
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Born in Dublin, Ireland, living in Lucerne/CH "Celebrated Swiss guitarist CHRISTY DORAN assets pertain to his indefatigable creative sparks, evidenced by his work in jazz-rock, avant-garde jazz improvisation or when tackling world music. And from a fundamental shedding perspective, he could hold his own with most if not all of the present guitar heroes." GLENN ASTARITA, New York (AAJ) Christy became internationally known thanks to his collaboration in the "electric jazz/free music" group "OM" (1972-82 and 2006 to present). The trio "RED TWIST & TUNED ARROW" (1985-87, with Stephan Wittwer and Fredy Studer) and the project "DORAN-STUDER-MINTON-BATES & ALI play the music of JIMI HENDRIX" (1990-94), (later “STUCKY-DORAN-STUDER & TACUMA / JORDI)” received rapid international recognition in the field of tension of composition and improvisation. Doran has performed countless solo and duo concerts worldwide, including with Ray Anderson, Marty Ehrlich, Fritz Hauser, Robert Dick and Yang Jing. 1997 he founded “Christy Doran’s NEW BAG” with whom he produced 8 cd’s for Double Moon Records and Between the Lines Records. 2016 he wrote a composition for “144 Strings for a Broken Chord”, 20 electric guitars, 4 electric basses and drums. In addition to OM, Doran's current projects include "Christy Doran's SOUND FOUNTAIN" (with Lukas Mantel on drums and the Argentine e-bassist Franco Fontanarrosa), Âme Sèche (with Walter Faehndrich, Remo Schnyder, Benedikt Vonder Muell), the interdisciplinary project AEROSOLS, Christy Doran Solo Guitar & Loops, "Triangulation" (with Anna Murphy, John Wolf Brennan and Patrice Héral) as well as the guitar duo with Franz Hellmueller and his collaboration with Reto Weber’s SQUEEZEBAND and Percussion Orchestra. A new trio with Wolfgang Zwiauer/b and Lukas Mantel/dr is in preparation. As a sideman he is engaged in several projects.
Christy Doran was awarded for many prizes, such as the Art Prize of the City of Lucerne in 2003. His name was included in the series "European Jazz Legends" by the renowned magazine "Jazz Thing” (Berlin) in 2017. 2020 he received the Swiss Music Prize. He performs around the globe. He wrote filmmusic, was engaged in several interdisciplinary projects, was professor at the University of Applied Science and Arts Lucerne/CH and has been giving masterclasses all over the world.

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“It is very energetic,rocked and the voice of Sarah Buechi leads you to other worlds, atmospheres.”… “ the album only counts 40 min, I would have loved to have more”
Le Soir, 17-6-2013

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