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Jazz is Expensive

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KUHN FU

Label: Berthold Records
Released: 2022
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Christian Kühn - guitar, voice, composition Tobias Delius - clarinet, tenor saxophone John Dikeman - tenor saxophone Ziv Taubenfeld - bass clarinet Sofia Salvo - baritone saxophone Esat Ekincioglu - bass, voice George Hadow - drums All compositions and words written by Christian Achim Kühn Recorded 13/10/21 at Zentrifuge Berlin by Tito Knapp Editing Aaron Ghantus Mixing & Mastering by Werner Angerer Artwork by Artur Bodenstein

Album Description

On Jazz Is Expensive, Kühn tells the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Fisherman and His Wife" in a new and different way. Kühn's style does the rest: with a forced German accent, the story is transformed into a modern fairy tale in English. The main character is the fisherman Marcel De Champignon, a horn player who is looking for the perfect melody - "the melody that makes millions". The fish is supposed to fulfil his wish, “Bruno the Architect” is his name. The website Illsebill.com also plays a major role. How Kühn’s lyrics arise spontaneously on stage can be heard on the second CD/Vinyl of this double album, Live in Saalfelden, which features all new compositions except two old band staples Nosferatu and Maharani. The immense enthusiasm with which the musicians of KUHN FU go about their work is the same in the studio and on stage. Whether in the variations on the always extremely beautiful melodies that Christian Kühn composes as a starting point for the pieces or in the free improvisations: A perfectly coordinated band develops music from the common movement that has never been heard before. The “Invisible Jazz Wall”, as Christian Kühn calls it, which is supposed to protect tradition from the vulgar, carnivalesque and nonsense, needs to be torn down. In this picture, KUHN FU are something like the trombones of Jericho. credits

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