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Richard Koch did it again! One of the most independent and unmistakable jazz trumpeters of our time is back with his fourth studio album. After three quartet records, he now presents us with a new work as bandleader in a new quintet: “Rays Of Light”. It will be released on 04.07.2025 by Fun in the church. 
In terms of instrumentation and instrumentation, this acoustic work could have been performed in the 19th century. We hear Fabiana Striffler on violin, Valentin Butt on accordion, Andreas Lang on double bass, Nora Thiele on frame drums and Richard Koch on trumpet. However, Koch's compositions are interspersed with the transatlantic history of pop music over the last 150 years: from the American Folk Book to Internet radio - and back to the village festival in his adopted home of Wustermark, from where he can always travel quickly by regional train to the jazz capital of Berlin. 

At a time when the transatlantic relationship is threatening to tip politically, Koch's “Rays Of Light” are just the right thing to counter the whole madness culturally as a European musician. After all, it is particularly evident in music how our cultural DNA is similar and has always influenced each other. Just as all kinds of European folk and salon music, crossed with Afro-American and oriental influences - influenced by Christianity, Islam and voodoo - have given rise to a magical, earth-spanning, creole music: jazz.
And we haven't even talked about Bach, Dylan or the Beatles yet. 
Koch's pieces in the year 2025 cannot be assigned to a specific region or tradition either: It is music that is just as suited to the Austrian Alps as it is to Provence or New Orleans. It is understandable in both urban and rural settings. It incorporates Balkan elements such as klezmer, we hear oriental percussion in its origins, and the double bass adds a good dose of swing and bop from the nervous metropolises. The accordion offers plenty of harmonic scope for interpretation and the violin shares this with the trumpet, without getting lost in metaphysical speculation. 
Koch's compositions are as light-footed as they are colorful. As if he wanted to say: Listen up, dear people! All the music in the world is here, everything is good! But the lightness of his playing, which seems to rub off on his fellow players, remains his creamy secret. When Koch and his quintet leave the stage, everything quickly becomes as gray as it was before. 

So it's no wonder that successful rock & pop acts such as Peter Fox and the Beatsteaks, as well as musical mavericks like Nils Frahm and Jimi Tenor, have long sworn by Richard Koch's trumpet playing. Everyone likes to have this very special swag at their party. And party is indeed a good keyword. Because “Rays Of Light” is extremely party-ready. It is perhaps the most party-ready album in the Berlin jazz world in recent years. An album that would like to bring the whole quarrelling family back together again in these times, plagued as they are by ultra-diversity on the one hand and fear-filled, categorical, anti-woke rejection on the other. 

You can't think of many jazz musicians who can pull music off their sleeves as easily as Richard Koch and his “Rays Of Light”. Musicians who really aspire to be understood by everyone out there. Without being camp or kitsch. This instrumental jazz-folk music is celebrated with great seriousness and full concentration. With great passion and infectious joy of playing! Chapeau! 


Richard Koch - Rays of Light

From graciously contoured contrapuntal writing to deep guttural sounds to up-tempo Mach speed episodes and the sonic beyond, Maxine has created a whirlwind of resonant adventures.
An imaginative and creative outpouring of beautifully balance expressiveness full of rich and prophetic trombone playing by Maxine to hauntingly beautiful moments by her band and special guest Peter Evans.

I suggest that the listener open their ears to hear a wide range of musical emotions channeled through the magic of composition, rehearsal, theme and variation explorations and finally-the resulting recording.

Angular, pulsating, brooding, moody, pondering, slippery, trance-inducing, playful experimentation, intensely fiery and free-flowing. These are just some literal images that come to mind when I listened through Maxine’s magnificent debut recording.

Special guest Peter Evans adds a well-poised contrast with his perfected technical buoyancy and insistently developed ideas. Combined with his extreme use of range and register and endless chop proficiency he counters Maxine’s full rich sound in a truly dynamic fashion. From his piercing development of ideas over the sung drones and moment of ohm on Chant to the Mach-speed piccolo trumpet solo on Hymn, pure brass excitement abounds.

The accompanying musicians share graciously in the development of each piece and add the perfect input and responses to the direction that Maxine has created with her writing and solo work.

Maxine is a wonderful leader, an adventurous composer, and a world class trombonist with a deeply rooted gorgeous sound, balanced intellectually with creative ideas built to endlessly fly around the world with.

In the music,
Ingrid Jensen

Compositions I-V & VII-IX by Maxine Troglauer
Composition VI by Joel Lyssarides & Maxine Troglauer
Basstrombone, composition - Maxine Troglauer 
Double Bass - Robert Lucaciu
Piano, Prepared Piano, Synthesizer - Julius Windisch 
Drums - Wouter Kühne
Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet - Peter Evans


Recording Producer: Martin Ruch
Recording Engineer: Michael Morawietz
Executive Producer: Frank Kämpfer Deutschlandfunk, Maurice Summen Fun in the Church
Production Management: Benjamin Buchwald 
Mix & Master: Martin Ruch
Cover Picture: Nora Blum
Cover Design: Paul Roth
Video Shoot: Janis Lüders
Video: Jakob Dieckmann, Paul Roth
Maxine Troglauer is an exclusive Lätzsch artist.

℗© 2024 Deutschlandradio and Fun in the Church

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Dancing in the Sun

Lemme Cook For You

Mo' Wigglin'

Hadi Bakalim

The internet will break my heart

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Me Porn, You Porn

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Superspace Heaven

Radio Superspace is the name of the show by Maurice Summen and Der Assistent, who also run the band Superspace of the same name, in the new Freifahrt format on ByteFM.

In their radio show, they create a kind of sonic fiction with all kinds of electronic and electro-acoustic music.

On an endless mixtape with ballistic beats, dub, house, new wave, score or ambient, they explore the infinite sound spaces in Superspace for us.

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Radio Superspace 1

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Choo Choo

Ringi

Space

Constancy

Moon Dance

Frank

Big Blossom

Falling and Rising

Flowing Up

From graciously contoured contrapuntal writing to deep guttural sounds to up-tempo Mach speed episodes and the sonic beyond, Maxine has created a whirlwind of resonant adventures.
An imaginative and creative outpouring of beautifully balance expressiveness full of rich and prophetic trombone playing by Maxine to hauntingly beautiful moments by her band and special guest Peter Evans.

I suggest that the listener open their ears to hear a wide range of musical emotions channeled through the magic of composition, rehearsal, theme and variation explorations and finally-the resulting recording.

Angular, pulsating, brooding, moody, pondering, slippery, trance-inducing, playful experimentation, intensely fiery and free-flowing. These are just some literal images that come to mind when I listened through Maxine’s magnificent debut recording.

Special guest Peter Evans adds a well-poised contrast with his perfected technical buoyancy and insistently developed ideas. Combined with his extreme use of range and register and endless chop proficiency he counters Maxine’s full rich sound in a truly dynamic fashion. From his piercing development of ideas over the sung drones and moment of ohm on Chant to the Mach-speed piccolo trumpet solo on Hymn, pure brass excitement abounds.

The accompanying musicians share graciously in the development of each piece and add the perfect input and responses to the direction that Maxine has created with her writing and solo work.

Maxine is a wonderful leader, an adventurous composer, and a world class trombonist with a deeply rooted gorgeous sound, balanced intellectually with creative ideas built to endlessly fly around the world with.

In the music,
Ingrid Jensen

https://www.instagram.com/maxinetroglauer/
https://www.maxinetroglauer.net/

Hymn

From graciously contoured contrapuntal writing to deep guttural sounds to up-tempo Mach speed episodes and the sonic beyond, Maxine has created a whirlwind of resonant adventures.
An imaginative and creative outpouring of beautifully balance expressiveness full of rich and prophetic trombone playing by Maxine to hauntingly beautiful moments by her band and special guest Peter Evans.

I suggest that the listener open their ears to hear a wide range of musical emotions channeled through the magic of composition, rehearsal, theme and variation explorations and finally-the resulting recording.

Angular, pulsating, brooding, moody, pondering, slippery, trance-inducing, playful experimentation, intensely fiery and free-flowing. These are just some literal images that come to mind when I listened through Maxine’s magnificent debut recording.

Special guest Peter Evans adds a well-poised contrast with his perfected technical buoyancy and insistently developed ideas. Combined with his extreme use of range and register and endless chop proficiency he counters Maxine’s full rich sound in a truly dynamic fashion. From his piercing development of ideas over the sung drones and moment of ohm on Chant to the Mach-speed piccolo trumpet solo on Hymn, pure brass excitement abounds.

The accompanying musicians share graciously in the development of each piece and add the perfect input and responses to the direction that Maxine has created with her writing and solo work.

Maxine is a wonderful leader, an adventurous composer, and a world class trombonist with a deeply rooted gorgeous sound, balanced intellectually with creative ideas built to endlessly fly around the world with.

In the music,
Ingrid Jensen

Compositions I-V & VII-IX by Maxine Troglauer
Composition VI by Joel Lyssarides & Maxine Troglauer
Basstrombone, composition - Maxine Troglauer 
Double Bass - Robert Lucaciu
Piano, Prepared Piano, Synthesizer - Julius Windisch 
Drums - Wouter Kühne
Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet - Peter Evans


Recording Producer: Martin Ruch
Recording Engineer: Michael Morawietz
Executive Producer: Frank Kämpfer Deutschlandfunk, Maurice Summen Fun in the Church
Production Management: Benjamin Buchwald 
Mix & Master: Martin Ruch
Cover Picture: Nora Blum
Cover Design: Paul Roth
Video Shoot: Janis Lüders
Video: Jakob Dieckmann, Paul Roth
Maxine Troglauer is an exclusive Lätzsch artist.

℗© 2024 Deutschlandradio and Fun in the Church

https://www.instagram.com/maxinetroglauer/
https://www.maxinetroglauer.net/

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