Fischermanns Orchestra
The Fischermanns Orchestra is a Swiss street jazz ensemble from Lucerne .
Stylistically, the band can be classified between Modern Creative and World Music . The Fischermanns Orchestra is one of the few ensembles in the German-speaking area that works with improvisation techniques similar to sound painting . In addition to the musicians, visual artists and video artists are also members of the band.
Band history
The Fischermanns Orchestra was founded in 2007 by Thomas Reist and Philip Z'Rotz . After a project by the University of Lucerne and the Willisau Jazz Festival , they founded their own street band together with the band The Himalajas of American drummer Kenny Wollesen . The first concerts took place in downtown Lucerne. In the first few years the Fischermanns Orchestra performed in varying sizes, from 2013 onwards there were the same 11 musicians. Also in 2013, Simon Petermann took over from Philipp Z'Rotz as musical director .
In 2018 the Fischermanns Orchestra played again at the Jazz Festival Willisau for the 10th anniversary of the band, this time in the main program. In the same year the band performed together with Bruno Spoerri and D. Andrew Stewart in the Jazzwerkstatt Bern.
The Fischermanns Orchestra plays concerts all over Europe , and in 2013 and 2018 the band also went on tours to South America .
In 2019 the Fischermanns Orchestra built a rehearsal house for the independent Lucerne music scene.
Band members
Musician
- Samuel Blatter Singing , synthesizer , composition , conductor
- Bodo Maier trumpet , composition
- Samuel Blättler Trumpet
- Lino Blöchlinger alto saxophone , bass saxophone , electronics
- Sebastian Strinning tenor saxophone , bass clarinet , composition
- Simon Petermann , trombone , conductor, musical director
- Dominic Landolt guitar , composition
- Urban Lienert electric bass
- Reto Eisenring snare drum , drums
- Thomas Reist bass drum , percussion; Band leader
- Kohei Yamaguchi filmmaker
Special Projects
- Bruno Spoerri , saxophone, electronics
former members
- Antonia Meile filmmaker
- Jan Buchholz filmmaker
- Ani Leidner drawings / performance
- Victor Hege, sousaphone
- Philipp Z'Rotz, tenor saxophone, musical director
Publications
music
- 2018 Tiefenrausch ( Unit Records )
- 2015 Colombia (Unit Records)
- 2012 Wildfang (Unit Records)
- 2012 Conducting Sessions (Unit Records)
- 2011 Destination Unknown
- 2008 Live!
Movies
- 2015 Lost in Circles
- 2014 spin
- 2014 Pegadito
- 2013 Tokyo Filter
- 2011 Head-Camera Video-Project
- 2011 A place on the bus
- 2010 Conducting Session
- 2009 Flip Flop Tour
Awards
- 2018 Selective funding from the Canton of Lucerne
- 2014 Lucerne Jazz Prize
Web links
- Web presence of the Fischermanns Orchestra
- Fischermanns Orchestra at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Report by the French music critic Monsieur Délire
- ↑ Article by Michael Sutter on kulturteil.ch
- ^ Program of the Willisau Jazz Festival
- ↑ Article Neue Luzerner Zeitung
- ↑ Program of the Willisau Jazz Festival
- ↑ Program Jazzwerkstatt Bern
- ↑ Report on beiuns.ch
- ↑ Report on emmentaler-filmtage.ch
- ↑ TourBlog on blogspot.ch
- ↑ Report by La Razon
- ↑ Temporary use at Seetalplatz is expanded to include a trial house. April 30, 2019, accessed on September 17, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
- ^ Press release from the Canton of Lucerne
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from November 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Press release