Schriefl, Matthias -& Rankfurt Radio Big Band-
Allgau Meets India
MUTTEKOPFHUTTEN-BLUES This piece came to me during a family trip to the Muttekopfhutte. The SCHNACKAR BICHL is the hill above my home village. It's beautiful there whatever the weather, especially when the Alps are glowing. POUR NORBERT ZONGO A dedication to a journalist from Burkina Faso who was murdered by the government there. I wrote the piece during an Africa tour with SHREEFPUNK when we had a concert on the anniversary of his death. It is dedicated to all the brave journalists in the world. HUMAN BEINGS The piece aims to set to music the most negative and most positive human characteristics. It contains the rhythm of the Fibonacci sequence in 33/4 time during the flute and flugelhorn solo,later changing to 51/8 time. HOLZ GEGEN BLECH One way of releasing the tension is to let it build up first.A musical-psychological piece in which the various instrumental groups merge into a climax of tension. But don't worry, it all ends well. ELEPHANZ CROSS When I was on tour with Amith in India, a wild elephant suddenly walked onto the road about 30 meters in front of our car. The elephant stopped in the middle of the road and caused a long traffic jam. After an hour, it went back to the side from where it had come and I had a new piece for a "climate-gluer" activist elephant. ROLLIN' BANGALORE This piece is inspired by a scooter ride with Amith through Bangalore, where we experienced a symphony of car horns.We can learn a lot from India, not only musically, but also regarding traffic. If we had twice as many cars here, all our city centres would automatically have a 30 km/h speed limit. I think it's a positive development that the cars here are getting bigger and bigger, often creating Indian-like congestion already. FRANKFUDDA MAMBO A mambo for my favourite big band in this universe.