David Helbock´s Random/Control
David Helbock – Piano, Inside Piano, Electronics, Percussion
Johannes Bär – Trumpet, Tuba, Beatbox, Didgeridoo, Electronics, Percussion
Andreas Broger – Sopransax, Tenorsax, Clarinet, Bassclarinet, Flute, Percussion, vocals
ACT CD Release – „Tour d´Horizon“ – From Brubeck to Zawinul
More than 20 instruments on stage, but just three musicians: David Helbock, Outstanding Artist Award Winner in Austria, mainly plays on instruments with keys. Johannes Bär does all the brass, from trumpet to bassflügelhorn and tuba and Andreas Broger plays wind-instruments like saxophones, clarinets and flutes.
For their new program, which was released as a CD on the renowned Label ACT Music, David Helbock got inspired by his favorite jazzpianoplayers and arranged their most famous tunes for this special line-up.
Over the years „Random/Control“ has developed a really distinct bandsound. Always different raw material – Austrian folkmusic, original compositions (in 2009 David Helbock had a big compositional project, where he wrote one piece every day for a whole year) and now these „Pianoplayer´s Hits”, the band always sounds like „Random/Control“ – a ride on the rollercoaster for the ear and the eye.
Or like Roland Spiegel from the bavarian radio wrote already years ago: “…I think David Helbock is one of the most exciting players of the young european jazz scene. The listener experiences something new when David Helbock plays. And it ́s never „top-heavy“ music – it ́s music that thrills the body and the mind…”
During the pandemic David Helbock also wrote a lot of new tunes, inspired by poems by Emily Dickinson, Erich Fried or William Blake. In these new tunes the trio uses a lot of electronics & beatbox and Andreas Broger is also singing
for the first time in more than 12years of bandhistory.
„Tour d’Horizon surprises at every turn, a measured feast for the senses.“
• Downbeat (US)
„Everything said to the big figures of jazzpiano? No. At least not until David Helbock made his statement with astounding easiness and technical brilliancy
• Jazzpodium (DE)
„An exciting trip through great inspirational piano compositions in a fresh and never heard way. Album of the week.“
• WDR 3 (DE)
„…Abdullah Ibrahim would certainly enjoy this interpretation…“
• HR-Kultur (DE)
new Video:
https://youtu.be/QqkP1C1Wx4w
Random/Control feat. Yasmin Hafedh
Standards Video:
https://youtu.be/m2wZa5QhWpI
https://youtu.be/CnzZt2DR_Jc