MusicmondayWährend Germany in the copyright debate infuriated by the remarks of element-of-Crime singer Sven Regener ("We were pissing in the face!") Is back in full swing and the well-known arguments are pushed back and forth, has long been off the record companies formed an alternative culture, which is working on new ways to distribute music. In this blog, I pointed at the "free and very good" articles on various alternative distribution concepts. Incidentally, I received the following tip from my good friend and jazz expert Sebastian Bodden.
Rusconi - Revolution - CoverDas Swiss jazz trio Rusconi published regularly since 2004 in a 2-year cycle of conventional CDs at record labels (an album even appeared on the major Sony!). The new album is so revolutionary conclusion: The trio makes its music on the Internet for download free of charge (or more precisely with the proven platform bandcamp.com that the music in all sorts of formats, from MP3 to AAC via the lossless formats FLAC and ALAC). The album is available on a pay-what-you-want basis, ie the listener can decide for themselves whether and how much money he wants to let the band get their music (and can). There is also a rare vinyl edition, which you can order (of course, a free download is here), a CD will be offered exclusively at the concerts.
Even more important than their alternative approach to the distribution of their music is, of course, their music itself, and here Stefan Rusconi have (* 1979, piano, effects, backing vocals), Fabian Gisler (b. 1977, bass, effects, backing vocals) and Claudio Strüby (b. 1980, drums, tapes, glockenspiel, backing vocals), really a lot to offer. Their new album "Revolution" summarizes in a very convincing manner, the various current trends in jazz piano trio together, influenced by the almost classical sound ("Milk") on poppier influences ("Tempelhof"), to experimental, rocking sound ( "Alice in the Sky"), they all uniformly woven into their sound. "Revolution" is not just the first album by a hopefully successful concept has become, with which it the band manages to find a bigger audience and better funded than ever to cut, but it has become primarily a damn good, varied jazz album that you really need to listen completely through in order to capture the full range of the trio can. Highlight of the album is her collaboration with the avant-garde musician and composer Fred Frith on "Alice in the Sky" and the closing "Hits of Sunshine" (a live recording from Bielefeld).
Who modern piano trio à la est, the Neil Cowley Trio or the Trio Vijay Iyver like that will be done very well by Rusconi.
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