Stol

about

Olaf Rupp. guitar Stephan Mathieu. drums «It is not so easy to describe a band like Stol. Especially because their music is a kind of crossover. Admittedly this does not sound very thrilling - it makes us think of a band XY who play their style, say Rock, and add something supposedly unusual to it, electronics by way of example. And then let’s be enthusiastic about the passages from analog to digital. Reality is much more deplorable and is called Post-Rock. Lukewarm coffee and a rancid bisquit. What is presented as a border crossing turns out to be but a proof of restricted creativity. In other words: if your music or your aproach to music is odd, then it won’t help to correct this by using modern hardware. Those who know this inwardly try out Techno purism or Drum and Bass fundamentalism all of them even better than those crossovers of two or three years ago. Using the term crossover in a positive setting, like in the case of Stol, this means that not the integration of other styles and methods but the starting point itself is of interest which makes it possible to work with different musics. This might become more clear if we listen to where Stol come from. Olaf Rupp and Stephan Mathieu have a spotless past of Improvised Music or - to call a spade a spade: Free Jazz. In the last 5, 6 years since they moved from Saarbrücken to Berlin the band worked intensively with the saxophone players Dietmar Diesner and Harri Sjöström as well as the bassclarinettist Rudi Mahall and - n