Allgäu Meets India Vol 2: Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra Feat. Matthias Schriefl & Guests| Live Recording at Loft

tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 5.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 6.00 pm CEST

After the first encounter between the Artist in Residence 2024 and the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra in May at the sold-out LOFT was great fun for everyone involved, Matthias Schriefl has now tailored a completely new program for the CCJO.
A cozy world music big band concert with many world premieres awaits your friendly ears.

The Allgäu multi-instrumentalist Matthias Schriefl, who has been living in Cologne for over 20 years, will be on stage with the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and his brilliant colleague Amith Nadig from Bangalore (bamboo flutes), and that promises great things. South Indian-Allgäu songs will be offered, mostly from Schriefl’s pen, which will be refined with Indian improvisations, the soloists and the grooves of the CCJO and Schriefl’s colorful arrangement ideas....

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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 5.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 6.00 pm CEST

After the first encounter between the Artist in Residence 2024 and the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra in May at the sold-out LOFT was great fun for everyone involved, Matthias Schriefl has now tailored a completely new program for the CCJO.
A cozy world music big band concert with many world premieres awaits your friendly ears.

The Allgäu multi-instrumentalist Matthias Schriefl, who has been living in Cologne for over 20 years, will be on stage with the Cologne Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and his brilliant colleague Amith Nadig from Bangalore (bamboo flutes), and that promises great things. South Indian-Allgäu songs will be offered, mostly from Schriefl’s pen, which will be refined with Indian improvisations, the soloists and the grooves of the CCJO and Schriefl’s colorful arrangement ideas.
A yodel is fused with Indian rhythms as if it were the most normal thing in the world, a South Indian melody is harmonized with European chord confusion and funky grooves, Cologne Cathedral is relocated to Bombay and the Himalayas are moved to Düsseldorf. All harmonic, tonal and compositional laws are suspended and the imagination is put to work.
The music smells of the Allgäu Alps, a restaurant in Bangalore, a bar in Havana and a Cologne pub.

Matthias Schriefl and Amith Nadig have known each other for over 15 years and know better than anyone else how to fuse cultures and combine a precise sense of rhythm from India with Allgäu dialect songs or yodels. The emotional effect of the music – in every conceivable direction of human feeling – is intensified in alliance with the CCJO. Perhaps it is these musical and cultural bridges between countries and continents that could provide the basis for peace for future generations?

„The arrangements by Allgäu trumpeter, flugelhorn, sousaphone and tuba player Matthias Schriefl (…) under the motto „The Big Amithias – Allgäu meets India“ are a furious musical spectacle. In a kaleidoscopic swirl, Schriefl’s alphorn meets the bright-sounding Indian bamboo flute of Amith Nadig, who forms the Indian section with a predominantly percussive trio. (…) This is circus-like, colorful and buoyant.“
Stefan Michalzik, Frankfurter Rundschau



Supported by:
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen

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