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241: DEPART – HARRY SOKAL – HEIRI KÄNZIG – MARTIN VALIHORA. Refire

Intakt Recording #241 / 2014

Harry Sokal: Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Effects
Heiri Känzig: Bass
Martin Valihora: Drums

Recorded June 1 - 3, 2013 by Andy Neresheimer at Hardstudios Winterthur for Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen.

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Format: Compact Disc
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The new album by the trio DEPART contains highly explosive, groove based music. Three very talented musicians form the new line-up: Saxophoneophonist Harry Sokal from Vienna, bass player Heiri Känzig from Zurich and the young drummer Martin Valihora from Slovakia who commutes between Bratislava and New York. Together they break new ground. This is DEPART’s step into a new era. DEPART is a crucial part of the European innovation in jazz. After 30 years of existence the band now releases their album REFIRE on Intakt Records. Sokal says: “But above all our music has become unpredictable and surprising again. Within a precisely delineated framework we have all three become more capricious; that ensures the tension and spontaneity which keeps our music alive.” Recorded in the ‘Hard Studios’ in the city of Winterthur, Switzerland the album contains 13 pieces most of them composed by Heiri Känzig. The music boils, pulsates and grooves in rousing perfection. “Their way of providing entertainment involves musical sophistication, intelligence and craft, along with good taste, witty playing and inventiveness,” writes jazz critic Christian Rentsch in the liner notes

Album Credits

Graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Liner notes: Christian Rentsch
Photos: Francesca Pfeffer

Recorded June 1 - 3, 2013 by Andy Neresheimer at Hardstudios Winterthur
for Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen. Recording producer for SRF: Peter
Bürli. Edited, mixed and mastered by Harry Sokal at Marchfield Studio,
Breitstetten, Austria. Produced by Depart and Intakt
Records, Patrik Landolt