Pristine Indie Jazz

The exceptional pianist Chris Gall proves with his trio that jazz is to merge with any genre capable. The first song "One Plus One" merges the harmony logic and the pressure of Independent Music with jazzy intelligence and rhythm, the result is a stirring, danceable layering of elements which are three-dimensionally in space where a simple hook right-handed to a makeshift hingerotztem, almost bluesy solo gets out of hand, where drummer Peter Gall exerts far from the jazzy restraint, but the song brings punchy forward. The opening track sets the standard for the whole album, dancing nimbly between Trio Jazz, Pop and Alternativeattitude when about Sarah has a verse with classic jazz timing, but suddenly changed in quick 4/4 in the chorus and losrockt. One hears of Gall that the active in numerous projects musician wants to be in his own group simply let off steam once, facing several personal influences with all its fractures. In this respect, "Hello Stranger" certainly not for jazz purists, nothing for friends of verkopften Jazz that has to be like climbing a mountain 'rather has the album in the mix between vocal and instrumental, in the attitude of a very good Popalbums, in the mix of pieces, the whole emotionality. Chris Gall seems effortless to strip off the tails of trained classical pianist and to throw himself into the skinny jeans without selling yourself short. On the contrary, the experiment of danceable jazz works just because the virtuosity of all participants at any moment is absolutely tangible, nothing is scaled down, reduced anything. This idea of ​​fusion is palpable at the voice of the Munich singer Dominik Shepherd aka Enik that seems to create a break to the music, a beat 'Enik is far removed from the smooth-edgeless vocal phrasing of most jazz singers. Somewhere zwischem white Soul, Electropop and classic alternative he rages about the music, seemingly in its own atmosphere floating, tied with thin nylon threads to the songs, sounds times after Bowie, times unverortbar, often as if he would intuitively improvise sing over the music, as he would bring his voice freely and openly in the song, as an instrumentalist would continue to do so precisely, the all-rounder can indulge in his love for the genre-free experiment here nice tip pop and jazz from the respective bases and some new stick together from the shards, about the title track "Hello Stranger", perhaps not entirely coincidental massive recalls the Beatles' when the Beatles Herbie Hancock would have had as a member. "You fit perfect to me" begins with a fiddly Bela Lugosi-Beat, provides almost like rap vocals, increases to a seamless blending of rock and jazz, which is as flawless as the cover of the album, which in rotschwarzweißen its aesthetics and the photo of Dean Bennici is settled of the two protagonists in the pop star look somewhere between Swiss minimalism and the White Stripes. So who buys here the plate after the cover, will be disappointed by no means' "Hello Stranger" is an outstanding, energetic, gefühliges, ruppiges, combative and stunningly vivid album that's not to be.