"Eine elektrisch pulsierende Mixtur aus alpiner Folklore und New Yorker Downtown-Grooves, aus flirrenden Sax-Hymnen und rumpelnden Rhythmen.“ (RADIO MAGAZIN, CH)
Depart – reloaded: More than a Comeback The headline of one of the ‘Comebacks of the Year’ in the European jazz scene has already done the rounds. It’s true – ‘Depart’, the virtuoso Swiss-Austrian trio-powerhouse that electrified festival and club-audiences between 1985 and 1994, are once again touring the international circuit. However, when listening to the brilliant new chords the three band-members strike today, one quickly realises that to talk of a mere ‘return’ or ‘comeback’ does not do them justice. Reloaded is not one of those reunions where musicians, intoxicated by nostalgia, simply continue where they left off, with scant regard to zeitgeist and equipment that have long since developed further. Reloaded is a new union of three musicians with a shared past, a union of three personalities with sharpened profiles, who now rel...
line upHarry Sokal - tenor & soprano saxophone, effects
Heiri Känzig - bass
Jojo Mayer - drums
Recorded at DRS Studio Zurich, Switzerland on September 22,23,24 - 2005 by Ron Kurz
Editing and mixing at Studio TSB on December 2,3,4 -2005 by Roland Baumann
Mastering at Marchfield Studio by Harry Sokal
Produced by Depart. Co-produced by Radio DRS, Peter Bürli
