FOR FREE HANDS is with Vladimir Karparov (BG) , Dimitris Christides (GR), George Donchev (BG) and Andreas Brunn (D) perceived as part of the Berlin-based international jazz community. The ensemble was winner of the aligned by the Berliner Kultursenat Center Price Jazz. The CD released by LAIKA Records.
„Kaleidoscope Freedom“ is the title song of our new CD. But this recording is live from our concert 07.01.2017 @ Kunstfabrik Schlot. 
“Kaleidoscope Freedom” is also a polyrhytm game. You can feel 5/4 or 7/8 + 13/8 in the same time. Try and enjoy. :-)

Christian Erber NDR : “ ... Europe is growing together and a quartet from Berlin provides the soundtrack . For Free Hands combine modern jazz arrangements with traditional sounds and rhythms of the Balkans. “Kaleidoscope Freedom“ is the fourth studio album of the German -Bulgarian- Greek ensembles. A title that hearing can comprehend as a statement for freedom. But also as a call to stand up for the human values it alive . Because “ there is no freedom , without mutual understanding “ quotes the French philosopher Albert Camus band.
Modernícolas: FOR FREE HANDS @ MALAGA JAZZ FESTIVAL: “... a New Way of understanding the Jazz ... Synergy is the word to define this Berlin quartet. For Free Hands stands for contemporary jazz. Dissonant sounds developed into beautiful melodies that hover over a richly varied rhythm rug. This impressive quartet hit with his music, which united different cultures, all present in their spell ...“
Further information please visit: www.for-free-hands.de

Kaleidoscope Freedom Live 2017

FOR FREE HANDS is with Vladimir Karparov (BG), Dimitris Christides (GR), George Donchev (BG) and Andreas Brunn (D) perceived as part of the Berlin-based international jazz community. The ensemble was winner of the Studio Price Jazz given by the Berliner Kultursenat. The CD  "Kaleidoscope Freedom“ is available under LAIKA Records. 
But this recording is live from our concert 07.01.2017 @ Kunstfabrik Schlot. 
The composition “Birds of passage” is a polyrhytm game. You can feel 9/4 or 7/8 + 11/8 in the same time. Try and enjoy. :-)
Christian Erber NDR : “ ... Europe is growing together and a quartet from Berlin provides the soundtrack . For Free Hands combine modern jazz arrangements with traditional sounds and rhythms of the Balkans. “Kaleidoscope Freedom“ is the fourth studio album of the German -Bulgarian- Greek ensembles. A title that hearing - 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall - can comprehend as a statement for freedom. But also as a call to stand up for the human values it alive . Because “ there is no freedom , without mutual understanding “ quotes the French philosopher Albert Camus band.
JAZZ Thing: “Those who can count have a clear advantage, and being able to do fractions does not hurt either. 5/8, 7/8 & 13/16 are some of the rhythmic fabrics that together form the outfit of the multicultural Berlin-based quartet FOR FREE HANDS on its new CD “Kaleidoscope Freedom”, and it teems with surprising twists and turns, pitfalls and tricky cliffs.
Biographical references also play a central role, like the openness of the many facets with which they encounter the former city wall. But biography and identity are not all that matter, rather the self-evident certainty with which the quartet drives the various facets of electrified jazz and charges of energy – and also, crucial is the exuberant joy of playing.” Stephan Hentz
JAZZPODIUM:  “Andreas Brunn is a dedicated guitarist and composer, an active mediatorial and reconciler and particularly fond of the East, nota bene Bulgaria. (…) “Perpetuum five” comes as electrified post-bop, grippy, squared, edged, angry, mad, jazzy. Karparov is lively and striking. And there is the uncomfortable “Magic Friday” or the title track, in which Karparovs tendency to occasional lyricism and Brunns occasional “circuit-with-funny outbursts” provide the contrast that generates voltage and excitement.”
Modernícolas: FOR FREE HANDS @ MALAGA JAZZ FESTIVAL: “... a New Way of understanding the Jazz ... Synergy is the word to define this Berlin quartet. For Free Hands stands for contemporary jazz. Dissonant sounds developed into beautiful melodies that hover over a richly varied rhythm rug. This impressive quartet hit with his music, which united different cultures, all present in their spell ...“
Further information on our new CD, please visit: www.for-free-hands.de

Birds Of Passage Live 2017

A few days after the death of PRINCE Matilda LEKO & Andreas BRUNN had a concert and decided spontaneously to play compositions of the innovative star. This gave rise to a very exciting program, which looks differently in different ways. (Including Prince | AC DC | Stevie Wonder | Beatles)This recording is from a Live concert in Berlin Dec. 2016!

The singer and composer Matilda Leko began to explore different musical genres, with the odd rhythms of her homeland, pop, rock, soul, blues, then to discover the jazz that brought her back to Vienna, where she was at the Vienna Conservatory Jazz singing.

Andreas Brunn studied guitar at the "Franz Liszt" Academy of Music in Weimar. In 1988, he moved to the then East Berlin and experienced the fall of the Wall. In the following years there were a lot of very intense musical encounters in Berlin, which influenced the guitarist's work sustainably.

Purple Rain - Matilda LEKO & Andreas BRUNN

A few days after the death of PRINCE Matilda LEKO & Andreas BRUNN had a concert and decided spontaneously to play compositions of the innovative star. This gave rise to a very exciting program, which looks differently in different ways. (Including Prince | AC DC | Stevie Wonder | Beatles)This recording is from a Live concert in Berlin Dec. 2016!
The singer and composer Matilda Leko began to explore different musical genres, with the odd rhythms of her homeland, pop, rock, soul, blues, then to discover the jazz that brought her back to Vienna, where she was at the Vienna Conservatory Jazz singing.
Andreas Brunn studied guitar at the "Franz Liszt" Academy of Music in Weimar. In 1988, he moved to the then East Berlin and experienced the fall of the Wall. In the following years there were a lot of very intense musical encounters in Berlin, which influenced the guitarist's work sustainably.
www.matildaleko.at | www.akustikartkontakt.de | www.youtube.com/AkustikArtKontakt

Back In Black - Matilda LEKO & Andreas BRUNN

A few days after the death of PRINCE Matilda LEKO & Andreas BRUNN had a concert and decided spontaneously to play compositions of the innovative star. This gave rise to a very exciting program, which looks differently in different ways. (Including Prince | AC DC | Stevie Wonder | Beatles) This recording is from a Live concert in Berlin Dec. 2016!
The singer and composer Matilda Leko began to explore different musical genres, with the odd rhythms of her homeland, pop, rock, soul, blues, then to discover the jazz that brought her back to Vienna, where she was at the Vienna Conservatory Jazz singing.
Andreas Brunn studied guitar at the "Franz Liszt" Academy of Music in Weimar. In 1988, he moved to the then East Berlin and experienced the fall of the Wall. In the following years there were a lot of very intense musical encounters in Berlin, which influenced the guitarist's work sustainably.
www.matildaleko.at, www.akustikartkontakt.de, www.youtube.com/AkustikArtKontakt

Sometimes It Snows In April-Matilda Leko & Andreas Brunn

Spontaneous performance with Simon Rainer & Vladimir Karparov at my birthday concert at Global.
Exciting superversion of the Ralf Siedhoff composition "To Act Like A Bull In A Chinashop" (over 10 minutes). Music is an all-connecting bridge in life! Thanks to the global and everything involved!
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To Act Like A Bull In A Chinashop 13 Strings meets Vlado Karparov

Guardian Angel is a wellknown composition of John McLaughlin. In this arrangement we try to follow und improvise with this great composition and went later to a "Joy" of J.S.Bach. This recording is live from a concert 07.01.2017 @ Kunstfabrik Schlot. 
The duo KARPAROV & BRUNN plays Urban World Jazz jazz connecting the diverse sound worlds of East and West. Jazz elements, Balkan folk music, and contemporary influecnes are combined to create an extraordinary sound fusion. In 2011 Vladimir Karparov and Andreas Brunn released their CD "East Side Story".
HIFISTATEMENT NETMAGAZINE, by Hans-Jürgen Schaal: “They may have been only two musicians but you would never have known. In fact, Karparov’s saxophone is able to reach almost every kind of sound, even a walking bass, and with his 7-string guitar Brunn spins a web of solo, chords, bass, percussion and scales. You really have the sensation that you could listen to these songs forever. It is no surprise that they won the “Berliner Studiopreis Jazz”.”

Jazzpodium - Alexander Schmitz. „ The track… Birds „Yardbird Suite” is a show piece for both, especially for Andreas´ superb 7-string capabilities. In „Lyasata” the guitar is Occident, soprano sax Orient style. They start quietly, slowly joining one another and eventually lead into a powerful duo of unison. „Two faces” is a complete Jazz piece, whereas „Devóiko Mária Húbava” is a melancholic balance of the intersection between Europe and the East.
The shaping of the repetoire is perfect. The sound of Brunn’s 7-string guitar is varied and breathtaking, especially in the bi-ethnic fantastical piece „Sofia”. Karparov, the Bulgarian folk player and international established Jazz academic, also plays to eliminate the musical boundaries of both worlds. They are in end effect the parallel image of one another. There is no better duo out there. …“

Guardian Angel - Karparov & Brunn @ Jazzclub Schlot

Guardian Angel is a wellknown composition of John McLaughlin. On 17.09.17 I played this wonderful composition first time in an own arrangement with a Looper. The occasion was the guitar concert "Gitarre Pur" in the church of Kleinmachnow with great guitar colleagues , organized by the music school Kleinmachnow.
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http://akustik-art-kontakt.de/english/artists/andreas-brunn/
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Guardian Angel - Gitarre Solo mit Looper @ Gitarre Pur in der Kirche Kleinmachnow

Guardian Angel is a wellknown composition of John McLaughlin. On 17.09.17 I played this wonderful composition first time in an own arrangement with a Looper. The occasion was the guitar concert "Gitarre Pur" in the church of Kleinmachnow with great guitar colleagues , organized by the music school Kleinmachnow.
www.for-free-hands.de/
www.youtube.com/AkustikArtKontakt 
akustik-art-kontakt.de/english/artis…ndreas-brunn/
www.kms-pm.de

Guardian Angel - 7-String Guitar Solo with Looper

FOR FREE HANDS is with Vladimir Karparov (BG), Diego Pinera (UA), Roberto Badoglio (I) and Andreas Brunn (D) perceived as part of the Berlin-based international jazz community. 
This recording is live from our concert 06.01.2018 @ Kunstfabrik Schlot. 
Andreas Brunn's composition "Wizard Cube" is based on the principle of the fugue. Three independent voices dance around each other over a 9/8 beat.
The ensemble was winner of the Studio Price Jazz given by the Berliner Kultursenat. The CD  "Kaleidoscope Freedom“ is available under LAIKA Records. 
Christian Erber NDR : “ ... Europe is growing together and a quartet from Berlin provides the soundtrack . For Free Hands combine modern jazz arrangements with traditional sounds and rhythms of the Balkans. 
JAZZ Thing: “Those who can count have a clear advantage, and being able to do fractions does not hurt either. 5/8, 7/8 & 13/16 are some of the rhythmic fabrics that together form the outfit of the multicultural Berlin-based quartet FOR FREE HANDS on its new CD “Kaleidoscope Freedom”, and it teems with surprising twists and turns, pitfalls and tricky cliffs.
Biographical references also play a central role, like the openness of the many facets with which they encounter the former city wall. But biography and identity are not all that matter, rather the self-evident certainty with which the quartet drives the various facets of electrified jazz and charges of energy – and also, crucial is the exuberant joy of playing.” Stephan Hentz
JAZZPODIUM:  “Andreas Brunn is a dedicated guitarist and composer, an active mediatorial and reconciler and particularly fond of the East, nota bene Bulgaria. (…) “Perpetuum five” comes as electrified post-bop, grippy, squared, edged, angry, mad, jazzy. Karparov is lively and striking. And there is the uncomfortable “Magic Friday” or the title track, in which Karparovs tendency to occasional lyricism and Brunns occasional “circuit-with-funny outbursts” provide the contrast that generates voltage and excitement.”
Modernícolas: FOR FREE HANDS @ MALAGA JAZZ FESTIVAL: “... a New Way of understanding the Jazz ... Synergy is the word to define this Berlin quartet. For Free Hands stands for contemporary jazz. Dissonant sounds developed into beautiful melodies that hover over a richly varied rhythm rug. This impressive quartet hit with his music, which united different cultures, all present in their spell ...“
Further information on our new CD, please visit: www.for-free-hands.de