Both somehow their paths have crossed again and again since they played together in the Weilheim music school Bigband in their youth to explore the possibilities of their instruments; they were already determined to make music the centre of their life. On one side trumpet player Micha Acher, half of The Notwist and on the other, possessed by jazz and saxophone, Johannes Enders. During this time, about 1984, your friends separated for the first time; Enders to study jazz in Graz and New York, and Acher to work with his brother Markus and their then still unknown punk band to make the nights in some kind of Bavarian youth center an experience to write music history. More by chance the two met again in Weilheim in 1992 and the Acher brothers, meanwhile with TheNotwist stars of the indie rock/electro scene, invited Johannes Enders to take part in their new, cross genre electro free jazz side project Tied & Tickled Trio. In the following years several albums were created and the trio, which actually consisted of up to 10 musicians best and played at many festivals in Europe. This phase ended in 2011 with the last recording of the T&TT with the participation of the US American drummer legend Billy Hart. Afterwards, everyone followed their own projects. But as fate would have it, they couldn't leave each other long enough and Micha Acher, who in the meantime developed a strong weakness for music and sousaphone in New Orleans through several trips to New Orleans; and Johannes Enders, now professor for saxophone at the Jazz Department at HMT Leipzig and admirer of the music of Gil Evans, decided to merge all these aspects in a new project. The Brookland Suite and the recordings in their own studio Enders Room were created with an unusual line-up, with the collaboration of New Orleans-based baritone saxophonist Dan Oestereicher (Trombone Shorty) and washington drummer Howard Curtis.
