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Regenorchester XII
4+ albums
free jazzjazzexperimentalPsychedelic Rockfree improvisation
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Things are changing, there is no doubt about it. Whereas around the turn of the millennium the experimental improvisers focussed on dynamic reduction now they are rediscovering the groove. The music of Franz Hautzinger strongly reflects this development. Using unorthodox embouchure techniques and unique ways of modulating the streams of air, plus amplifying the slightest puff by intense miking inside the horn, the austrian-born trumpet player began coaxing flightily breathed low sounds out of his instrument in the 1990s. The unusual rock jazz sounds he played with his Regenorchester XI at the Saalfelden Jazzfestival 2003 therefore came as a surprise. With the twelfth incarnation of his long-time Regenorchester project (which owes its name “rain orchestra” to the soggy London weather at the first concert) Hautzinger intensified this tendency even more. At the 2006 NEWJazz Meeting, Southwest German Radio’s (SWR) annual festival in Baden-Baden, the band featured Otomo Yoshihide and Christian Fennesz, two luminaries of electronic music and guitarists who can not only create an atmosphere of suspense in silence but also relate to noise and rock idioms. Also part of the project were Luc Ex, former member of the anarcho-jazz punk band The Ex, on electric bass, and Tony Buck, drummer with the Australian ensemble The Necks, who likewise guarantee electrifying pulses. The rediscovery of the wild fusion years of course ensues from a metalevel: Hautzinger and his Regenorchester XII pl
