Drums off chaos

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Drums Off Chaos are a percussion ensemble , one grooving improvisation music presents. The ensemble was initiated by Jaki Liebezeit in Cologne in the early 1980s as a loose gathering of drummers. The group was later reduced in size and from 2000 onwards consisted of Jaki Liebezeit, Reiner Linke, Maf Retter and Manos Tsangaris .

history

The band was formed as part of the Stollwerck scene. Since it was founded almost 35 years ago, the ensemble has mainly played in joint sessions; the first quartet of the group consisted of Jaki Liebezeit , Reiner Linke, Manos Tsangaris and Frank Köllges . After Köllges' departure in 1995, Gero Sprafke took his place, which Maf Retter took over in 2000. Since 2006, the ensemble has partly expanded to form a percussion quintet with Olek Gelba.

In 1986 the ensemble played the music for the first trailer of the Cologne Filmhaus , which Josef Stöhr realized. "In the animated film the streets of Cologne blink, aggressive air men get churches and chapels swinging, and the drumming of Drums Off Chaos goes with it ." The Festival Romanischer Sommer opened in Cologne in 1998 and also performed at the Festival Mercat de Música in Vic , Spain , at the Kilkenny Arts Festival as well as in the Cologne Philharmonie and the Philharmonie Luxembourg . Drums Off Chaos have also performed with Maria de Alvear , Thomas Kessler and, in recent years, Jens-Uwe Beyer and Dominik von Senger.

Discographic notes

  • Various Stollwerck samplers (Forty-five 1984/85; only one piece from 1984)
  • Maria de Alvear & Drums Off Chaos Baum (World Edition, 2000)
  • Various machine halls 2001 (Forty-five 2001, only one piece)
  • Drums Off Chaos & Jens-Uwe Beyer (Magazine 2011)
  • Machinefabriek Drum Mix (only one piece with Jens-Uwe Beyer as a remix)
  • Compass (Vinyl EP, Nonplace, 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website Drums off Chaos - about
  2. ↑ koeln-im-film.de: Drums Off Chaos
  3. ↑ Website Gero Sprafke
  4. ↑ Video (laut.de)
  5. ↑ Meeting (SPEX) ( Memento from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ site Nonplace