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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! 


Rays of Light

Falling and Rising

Rene Aubry - The Shell

Following the events that occurred in several countries and closer to us in Paris and in response to the media and community’s reactions, we have decided to gather around between friends and record a version of Los Hermanos, written by Atahualpa Yupanqui, to advocate the importance of being united. Hatred breeds hatred. War breeds war.
DOWNLOAD HERE https://soundcloud.com/parisdjs/a-collective-vision-of-peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YDPOpsNXnc
Sandra Nkaké (voice)
Mélissa Laveaux (voice)
Jî Drû  (flute/ voice)
Christophe « Disco » Minck  (doublebass)
Julien Tekeyan  (drums-bongos)
Jérôme « Tchiky » Perez  (guitar)
Thomas De Pourquery  (saxophone)
Mike Ladd  (voice)
Antoine Berjeaut (bugle/trumpet)
Cyril Atef  (disto sanza)
Jérôme « Blackjoy » Caron (mix)
Grant Phabao (mastering)
Alain « Seka » Ledoux (video)

We thank: Loik Dury / Karine Morice / Bahini Camara / Bérangère Viennot / Paris Djs

Kaa ben waleya mounu tèmèna djamana tchan ma kan ana laminy ani françi bolon kono, ani kounafoni sèbè, ladjè kulu dow ani djamana syki den dow bèn na kan fara yonkon kan ni teriya sira ye ka donkily doh dah ni los hermanos tokoye,  ka yira ko ben ne yonkon teh djougouya deh be. Nah ni djougouya ye, kèlè debè na ni kèlè ye.

En reacción a los recientes acontecimientos sucecidos en en numerosos países  y más cerca de nosotros en las calles de París y a su eco en los medias y la sociedad civil, hemos decidido reunirnos, entre amigos para grabar una versión de Los Hermanos de Atahualpa Yupanqui, y demostrar lo importante de quedernos unidos. El odio engendra el odio. La guerra engendra la guerra.



A Collective Vision Of Peace

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Michel Camilo & Tomatito - Spain Forever (Impulse ! / Universal)

John Surman - Nestors Saga

Integrantes: 

   - Andrés Torres        ( Acordeón )
   - Gerardo Roque      ( 2a Guitarra y armónica ) 
   - Ricardo Ariceaga   ( Bajo ) 
   - Oscar Espinosa     ( 1a Guitarra )
   - Carlos de Santos   ( Clarinete )
   - Miguel Fajardo        ( Violín )


Agradecemos a: Jose Luis Batres (Logo), Adan y Ricardo Irak (Fotos e imagen), Fitos (Grabación); a la Cervería San Luis II, a la Facultad de Música, a nuestras familias, a nuestras parejas, amigos, Buchi, P-18, Italiannis Plaza San Luis, clientes ¡y a toda la gente que nos ha apoyado desde el primer día!

Time et fuga in summer (Kroke/J.S.Bach/Gershwin)

5 track tribute to the talented singer Lhasa De Sela:

1) Live recording of Lhasa Del Sela as she sings Fairuz's adaptation of the poem by Khalil Gibran 'The Nay/ A´tini  Al-nay /  اعطني الناي

أعطني الناي وغني, فالغنا سر الوجود وأنين الناي يبقى, بعد أن يفنى الوجود هل إتخذت الغاب مثلي, منـزلاً دون القصور فتتبعت السواقي, وتسلقت الصخور هل تحممت بعطره, وتنشفت بنور وشربت الفجر خمراً, من كؤوس من أثير هل جلست العصر مثلي, بين جفنات العنب والعناقيد تدلت, كثريات الذهب هل فرشت العشب ليلاً, وتلحفت الفضاء زاهداً في ما سيأتي, ناسياً ما قد مضى أعطني الناي وغني, وانسى داء ودواء إنما الناس سطورٌ, كتبت لكن بماء 

Give me the Nay and sing, /The secret song of eternity. /The laments of the Nay will linger /Beyond the decline of existence.

Have you, like me, /Chosen the forest dwelling /Rather than the castle? /Have you followed the stream /And climbed the rocks? /Have you anointed your body /With fragrance distilled in light? /Have you been drunk with dawn /In the goblets full of pure air?

Have you, like me,/ Sat down at dusk,/ Among the glowing languor/ Of vines laden with grapes? /Have you lain down on the grass at night /And covered yourself with heavens, /Opening your heart to the future, /Forgetful of the past?

Give me the Nay and sing, /The song in tune with hearts. /The laments of the Nay will linger  /Beyond the fading of sins. Give me the Nay and sing, /Unmindful of troubles and cures. /For each man /Is nothing more than a watercolor sketch.

2) Bia Krieger con Lhasa de Sela in 2008 singing "Los hermanos" (A. Yupanqui)

3) Lhasa De Sela live on piano singing her own "I'm Going In" (Toronto, 2006)

4) Lhasa De Sela "La Confession," live acoustic recording from France during tour of Living Road album in 2003

5) Studio recording of her song "Where do you go" (2009, self-titled album).

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