Alternative Facts

Featuring: Udo Schindler, Gunnar Geisse, Patrick Schimanski

2017 release ** "Building beats and sounds with electronics is a huge part on the record. The drums and the electronics prime the whole album without being reduced to a straight beat. Patrick Schimanski moves from abstract sounds to micro rhythms to straight beats (saturated by any background you can think of) and back again. The drum sound has a percussive tone to it as well: There are bells and congas and more like it. Patrick Schimanski is working a lot with different theaters around Germany and he is the drummer of the band 48nord. The different wind-instruments are the second thing that you can focus on while listening to this album. Udo Schindler plays the cornet, saxophone and euphonium. As in the first track you might hear more than one at a time or it might at least sound like it. That also might be the addition of the third man on board: Gunnar Geisse who is responsible for guitar and 'virtual instruments' - a new term to me. But I think that is the reason for the large unite sound in the beginning. Gunnar Geisse has worked with a lot of different musicians in the scene of improvised music. Alternative facts is an album of varieties. There are open parts, abstract sounds and improvisations and there are parts with a strong rhythm and melodies. There a parts created by only one of the three musicians without the 'classic' manner of a solo and there are parts that sound like a large ensemble. This might reflect the idea stated in the names of the different tracks: The names can be read as one sentence about the diversity in life. The statements on their own seem to be a bit declamatory, too solemn even. But the music is a perfect expression of the diversitiy and can be heard as a political statement declared using beautiful music."