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Christy Doran's New Bag

Mesmerized

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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 (guitar)

Christy Doran was born in Dublin, Ireland and has lived in Lucerne, Switzerland since his childhood. His father was an Irish ballad singer, providing Christy with his first exposure to music.  In the 1970´s he was a founding member (along with Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgruber and Bobby Burri) of the seminal Swiss band 'OM'. Tours throughout Europe, radio/TV - appearances, workshops, music for ballet, theatre and film. Over the years, his career has included countless solo concerts, in which he regularly pushes to the limits the capabilities of a single guitar. He has played in duos with Marty Ehrlich, Harry Pepl, Fritz Hauser, Dave Doran, Dom Um Romao, John Wolf-Brennan, Robert Dick, Ray Anderson, among others. After playing in a trio...
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Christy Doran was born in Dublin, Ireland and has lived in Lucerne, Switzerland since his childhood. His father was an Irish ballad singer, providing Christy with his first exposure to music. In the 1970´s he was a founding member (along with Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgruber and Bobby Burri) of the seminal Swiss band "OM". Tours throughout Europe, radio/TV - appearances, workshops, music for ballet, theatre and film. Over the years, his career has included countless solo concerts, in which he regularly pushes to the limits the capabilities of a single guitar. He has played in duos with Marty Ehrlich, Harry Pepl, Fritz Hauser, Dave Doran, Dom Um Romao, John Wolf-Brennan, Robert Dick, Ray Anderson, among others. After playing in a trio with Jasper van´t Hof, he went on to form the "Christy Doran´s May 84" septet with Norma Winstone, Trilok Gurtu, Urs Leimgruber, Rosko Gee, Dom Um Romao and Dave Doran. He has been a member of the "Peter Warren Quartet" with Victor Lewis and John Surman, and "RED TWIST & TUNED ARROW" with Stephan Wittwer and Fredy Studer (1985 - 1987). Christy Doran was also a co-founder of "Doran/Studer/Burri/Magnenat," (later "Doran/Studer/Gerber/Magnenat") and member of a quartet with Bobby Previte, Mark Helias and Gary Thomas. He played in a trio with Marilyn Mazur and Kim Clarke, as well as with Sibylle Pomorin´s "Augeries of Speed" meeting Terry Jenour, Annie Whitehead, Kim Clarke, Herb Robertson, Kamal Sabir. As a member of Urs Leimgruber´s "Ensemble Bleu" he also played with Francoise Kubler, Louis Sclavis, Hans Koch. Other performances have included work with Carla Bley, Albert Mangelsdorff, Bob Stewart, Edvard Vesala, Charlie Mariano, Manfred Schoof, Iréne Schweizer, Aldo Romano, Piérre Favre, Peter Schärli, Glenn Ferris, Wolfgang Dauner, Fernando Sounders, Heiri Känzig, Julio Barreto, Sonny Sharrock, Jim Meneses, Keven Bruce Harris, Martin Schütz, Daniel Mouton, Ronan Guilfoyle, Marc Peterson, Burhan Oecal, Werner Lüdi, Christoph Baumann, Lars Lindvall, Mark Halbheer, Urs Blöchlinger, Günter Müller, Lauren Newton, Tim Berne, Jim Black, Gunther Schuller, Airto Moreira a.o. He has toured in Europe, North-Africa, India, the Caribic, Mexico, Bolivia, the U.S. and Canada. 1989 began a collaboration with trombonist Ray Anderson, which lead to the trio ANDERSON/BENNINK/DORAN (including drummer Han Bennink), which disbanded 1997. 1993 Christy Doran, together with Fredy Studer started the project "DORAN/STUDER/MINTON/BATES & ALI" play the music of JIMI HENDRIX". 1994 Django Bates was replaced by cellist Tom Cora. 1995/96 the band played in quartet with Phil Minton, Amin Ali, Fredy Studer and Christy Doran. Tours with this band throughout Europe, Scandinavia, the US and Canada. Since 1993 Christy Doran is working with American flutist Robert Dick and English drummer Steve Argüelles as the A.D.D. - Trio. 1994 Fredy Studer and Christy Doran refounded the double-bass - quartet with Jean-François Jenny-Clark (acoustic bass/Paris) and Jamaaladeen Tacuma (electric bass/Philadelphia). 1994 Swedish saxofonist Thomas Jàderlund invited Doran to play in the "Amazing Orchestra" (with Guy Klucevsek, Stein-Erik Tafjord, Svante Henryson, Tomasz Stanko, and Jonny Axelsson). A new collaboration with Albert Mangelsdorff, Bruno Spoerri and Reto Weber started 1997.
Recordings have included those with Hank Roberts, Joe McPhee, Corin Curschellas, Hardy Hepp, Helmut Zerlett, Iréne Lorenz, Boris Salchak, besides several recordings with musicians mentioned above. Christy Doran´s current groups include "Christy Doran´s New Bag" (founded Dec. 97) with vocalist Bruno Amstad, Wolfgang Zwiauer on electric bass, and Fabian Kurattli on drums. the A.D.D. trio, and "Spöerri-Doran-Weber" with Albert Mangelsdorff. Christy Doran also teaches at the "Musikhochschule" of Lucerne/Switzerland.

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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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