REIDENBACH, BENEDIKT - Eins (Sealed) (CD)

Arrive with your ears. Benedikt Reidenbachs debut album One proves courage for simplicity, for simple, crystalline play, as for earthy, complex sound. His virtuosity comes without false fluency. The guitarist nevertheless shows with his new release quite unobtrusively how versatile contemporary jazz can be. He does not want to deny influence from the folk song and the reminiscences of the folk song - strong melodies find their ground adhesion in an original harmony, are songs without words, form timeless sound images in the here and now (Schattenwalzer). It is not until the second glance that one of course is also a guitar album. Bound handlebar acrobatics? Not even close. His virtuosity is always arranged by the interpreter Reidenbach. "I went to the material as a producer, experimented a lot with the orchestration, and finally decided on the version that served the song the most," he explains. Fourteen pieces have come out, which show technical brilliancy But never as an end in itself.Musical origin is an important subject for Benedikt Reidenbach, son of a church musician, he has influenced the sonic power of the grand instruments. He himself is now also active as an organist and also leaves his own compositions as guitarist elements of these so different (The Star of the County Down), who have accompanied him in their own harmonies and music Melodic to this day, with quite different listening experiences He was influenced by the music of Pat Metheny, who opened the way to jazz and improvisation. What followed was a study of the jazz guitar at the Musikhochschulen of Cologne, Amsterdam, Berlin and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Since the end of his studies, Benedikt Reidenbach has worked mainly as a musical accompanist for national and international artists (eg Gitte Haenning, Sebastian Studnitzky, Emiliana Torrini and Lisa Bassenge). He has constantly expanded his technical and stylistic possibilities: influence from bluesgrass, country blues, western swing and Americana are also not to be omitted (western novelty). They merge here into their own musical vocabulary. Reidenbach has been playing with the musicians of this album for a long time. As with many previous projects, he was able to rely on her unique qualities in this production: Olivia Trummer's piano playing and her singing unfold her etheric character, enriching the lied form of the compositions; Paul Kleber at the double bass is the foundation for these musical imagery, while Rainer Winch shades her colorfully and rhythmically through the drums - as does Bodek Janke, whose percussion gives the piece of windsurf a touch of world-wide musical clarity.