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TRIOSPHERE

TRIOSPHERE

Steffen Schorn - Roger Hanschel - Dirk Mündelein

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"one of the most vibrantly original voices out there"
Dan McClenhaghan, All about Jazz
"Das originellste, was die deutsche Jazzszene in letzter Zeit ausgespiehen hat"
Günter Hottmann, HR

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Steffen Schorn: baritone sax, bass clarinet

Roger Hanschel: alto-, sopranino-, F-Mezzo saxophones

Dirk Mündelein: acoustic & electric guitars

actual CD:

"TRIOSPHERE"

Jazz'n'Arts 2304

Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik

Bestenliste 2/04

booking:

Agentur Fischermann

Stefan Nauheimer

Wilhelm-Sollmann-Str. 18

D-50735 Köln

tel: 0221-9711799

mail: info@agentur-fischermann. de

On Tour:

16. Jan 05: Esslingen, Kulturzentrum Dieselstrasse

17. Feb 05: Münster, C. U. B. A

19. Feb 05: Rottweil, Alte Paketpost

20. Feb 05: Schwäbisch Gmünd, JazzMission (KKF, Hirschgäßle 7)

21. Feb 05: Magdeburg, Kammerspiele

22. Feb 05: Freiberg, Kunsthandwerkerhof "Goldener Adler"

26. März 05: Stuttgart, Theaterhaus Jazztage

14. Mai 05: 's Hertogenbosch (NL), Festival "Jazz in Duketown"

28. Juli 05: Lissabon (Portugal), Goehte-Institut

29. Juli 05: Lissabon (Portugal), Hot Club

30. Juli 05: Lissabon (Portugal), Hot Club

13. Sept-8. Okt 05: Tour through Botsuana, Kenia, Mosambik, Namibia, Simbabwe, Südafrika & Madagaskar:

16. Sept 05: Johannesburg

19. Sept 05: Gabarone

22. Sept 05: Windhoek

25. Sept 05: Kapstadt

28. Sept 05: Maputo

30. Sept 05: Harare

3. Okt 05: Nairobi

6. Okt 05: Antananarivo

9. Okt 05: Nürnberg, Gostenhofer Jazztage

17. Nov 05: Schwäbisch Hall

26. Nov 05: Delmenhorst, Jazzfest

ENTRY INTO THE TRIOSPHERE

What is Triosphere?

Triosphere is a fantasy space full of exciting acoustic discoveries.

"Triosphere is an ensemble pointing the way ahead in contemporary jazz" (Hessischer Rundfunk).

Triosphere is the new trio of Steffen Schorn, Roger Hanschel and Dirk Mündelein. The first two have become well-known as Kölner Saxophon Mafiosi. With noteworthy own projects, they have unwaveringly ignored the borders between genres: above all, Steffen Schorn in the prize-winning duo with Claudio Puntin, with his own big band and in a septet; Roger Hanschel in the union with the singer Gabriele Hasler and recently with his music for saxophone and string quartet. Dirk Mündlein emerged as the discovery at the festivals "International New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden" and "Donaueschingen Musiktagen 2000. "

The compositions for their group project Triosphere unfold a richly lit tonal cosmos in a small format. It is the many-layered, iridescent sound weaves, that, like tilting images, sound different depending upon the listening angle-and yet are held together from a living law of an idea. The music of Triosphere can whisper or murmur, or it can roar with the wild power of unchained saxophones. It hunts through absurd tempi in 7/4 time, amicably trips up James Brown in 23/8 time or lightheartedly radiates Brazilian flair. It forms itself into a miniature concert around a soloist or commits itself to tangling, hardly to be undone, of dense tonal threads-always obeying a tonal logic, if from so far away. Performed with breathless virtuosity and precision, it is on the top of it all.

With all this balled up energy and the organizational complexity of Triosphere's music, it is sometimes hard to believe that all its sounds are made, not by a large many-armed being, but rather from three individual earthlings. What, however, comforts: one doesn't need three heads to listen-only two alert ears.

They guarantee a fascinating journey and many discoveries.

Odilo Clausnitzer /Translation by Bruce Carnevale

Triosphere Press Comments:

"one of the most vibrantly original voices out there"

Dan McClenhaghan, All about Jazz

"Contemporary Jazz par excellence"

"Spontanious and perfect - the jazz-trio 'Triosphere'"

WZ, 26 February 04

"Trio in a Special Class"

"This trio stands as one of the leading ensembles of contemporary Jazz...: Triosphere, that is the three innovative Jazz musicians Steffen Schorn (baritone saxophone and bass clarinet), Roger Hanschel (alto-, sopranino- and F-mezzo-saxophone) and Dirk Mündelein (electric and accoustic guitar), who are presently mixing up the Jazz scene. "

Hohenloher Wochenpost, 25 February 04

"Jazz at its best"

"Alone the instrumentation - a trio with two horns, without bass and rhythm instruments - which One would certainly label 'unfitting' - leads into a new dimension of Jazz.

Sometimes whispering and murmuring, other times storming, the horn and guitar sounds come forward in a wild rage, as if driven by an invisible drummer. "

KreisKurier, 25 February 04

"Triosphere, the fourth dimension of Jazz"

"Only three years after its founding, Triosphere has won the ensemle competition 'Jazzarts 2003'...

In fact the Trio develops new worlds of sound which move between tender, raging and concentrated. Spontaneous, nevertheless following an exact plan, imaginative and perfectly organized, are all present in the ensemble playing of this exceptional trio. "

Hohenloher Tagblatt, 25 February 04

"Crazy yet accessible... wild yet beautiful... funky yet free. I really enjoyed it. Congratulations on a wonderful project. " Jay Anderson, February 2004

"What a great trio you have! I enjoyed it immensely... It gives the feeling that music is still alive in the world. " Martin Fondse, Artistic Director Rotterdam Jazz International 2003

"A cosmos of tonal colors"

"... a while back the saxophone players Steffen Schorn and Roger Hanschel got together with the guitarist Dirk Mündelein and formed the ensemble 'Triosphere. ' In front of large auditorium, the three presented a musical program that they themselves characterize as 'chamber music jazz. '... what there was to observe that evening is difficult to describe. The ensemble has developed a personal style that cannot be limited to a few clearly delineated catchwords... "

RZ, 5 February 02

"Unpredictable, exciting and absolutely virtuosic. "

"New, surprising, unusual and sometimes in need of getting used to, exciting and pleasantly unpredictable,... absolutely clean and virtuosic. That is how the ensemble 'Triosphere" presented itself on Friday...

The trio has developed a personal style which is characterized by tonal, structural and dynamic contrast, by a constant change spreading to many genres. Sometimes it was hard to believe, and the program suggested this, that only three players performed this music in a complexity that was hard to grasp. But it wasn't only this skill in dealing with the works and the stylistic, formal ability to transform themselves that made the playing of 'Triosphere' so enthralling. Above all, it was the absolute enthusiasm of both saxophone players, who showed again and again how multi-facetted their instruments can sound: between sad and melancholy tenderness, scratchy hardness, nearly apathetic indifference and bubbly excitement, a wide field of tonal colors and expressive forms opened up in their playing such that they could constantly enthrall the listener anew. " WAZ, 4 February 02

"A refreshing fine mixture"

"... the 'Ensemble Triosphere' is considered, and not incorrectly so, to be a group pointing the way ahead... This path leads away from the unpolished wildness of free funk to an academically reflected and sophisticated fine mixture, which seems to have a soul from the zeitgeist of a increasingly complex, open 'multi-polar' world. 'Take Five' was yesterday. In the eruptions of the musical intellect à la Triosphere, the asymmetrical time measurements have a family get-together. All the while the music remains audible and the roots perceptible (Bebop and Cool Jazz). An unshakable groove grounds the collective saxophone playing (Steffen Schorn, Roger Hanschel) which has been refined to a jazz counterpoint with an extra dose of crystal clear electro guitar power (Dirk Mündelein) and with lyrical moments filled with mild light. "

HD, 11 August 02

"One of the future-looking ensembles of contemporary jazz"

Hans Verres, Hessischer Rundfunk

"More than just a consolation"

"... spherical sounds, fitting to the name of the trio, that appe