SCHÄL SICK BRASS BAND

Global grooves from Cologne. Schäl Sick Brass Band are masters of subtlety and percussive power. Their unorthodox concerts, their innovative approach and their stylistic versatility have won them a broad-based following.
Journal Frankfurt acknowledged their unique qualities in an article that proclaimed: the most beautiful and sensuous multicultural utopia today comes from Cologne, where there is a brass band that plays contemporary folk, mirroring the grooves of the city and all its different ethnic cultures. Afrobeat is as much a part of their music as samba, oriental and Italian melodies.
A Persian folk song mutates into a Cologne waltz, or is it the Cologne waltz that mutates into a Persian folk song?“ - Music without frontiers. In the Wolpertinger Ballroom at the legendary Stollwerck, equipped with highly sensitive oil-damped microphones, the band recorded their debut album Majnoun“. Like their live gigs, the CD is built up around Persian songs performed in unconventional instrumental arrangements which make the ancient repertoire of Persian music accessible to a completely new audience.
Added to these are compositions by the Nigerian Fela Kuti and South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, dances from Bulgaria, Italy and Bavaria and Jacques Offenbach´s little-known composition The Prince of Arcady“.

Westindie 3:55
(Raimund Kroboth)
Taken from the CD V.A. - 3 Königenstrasse“
(Westpark Music WP 87054)