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Willkommen
auf meiner Homepage;
derzeit leider nur einsprachig, ich bitte um Verständnis.
Welcome to my homepage which too
rarely sees updates but I try to get better at it. (Drumroll) After two
years of work two solo albums have been released in early 2009:
"Drowning Migrant" on Leo Records (CD LR
532)
and
"Orange Years" on Jazzwerkstatt
(JW 057)
 
Very special thanks to both record
companies for making this possible,
I urge you to check out both of these distinctively different
recordings, both are worth it. All self-recorded on partly vintage
recording equipment in my home studio, great mixing/mastering job by
Niklas Schmincke (P4, Berlin).
MP3 Audio of these can be heard on my MySpace site, where also current
concert dates can be found.
After a ten day USA/Canadian tour with Grid Mesh in March 2009 further
appearences
abroad will include Spain (Vigo festival with Montauk) and the UK
(Cheltenham with Tom Arthurs' Subtopia) this year.
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2008: In April the live album "Andreas Schmidt & Dave
Liebman & Friends In Berlin" was released (JazzHausMusik JHM
166). For a better recorded example of my "bright phase" guitar sound
(ca. 2000 - 2003) check out "In the North" with Paul Bley on btl,
engineered by Christian Heck at the Loft in Cologne.
2007 has see
Berlin's GRID MESH w. Frank Paul Schubert (sax)
and Rudi Fischerlehner (dr) first release on the Austrian Farai label.
"When the trio gel and have purpose the result is impressive." The
Wire/UK
„... a strong, tough piece of freestyle music with it‘s
historic origins still traceable. But it is placed as an amalgam on a
far remote place - cunning, heartfelt, in-your-face stuff“.
freistil, Austria
2005 the French/German quartet MONTAUK with Dominique Pifarély
(vln), Alain Grange (cello) and Michael Griener (dr, perc) released a
well received album on Between the Lines Records.
- Email
message from April 17th, 2003 regarding the release of the Jimmy
Giuffre hommage album "IN THE NORTH" with Paul Bley (p), Yves Robert
(tb) and Horst Nonnenmacher (b):
Dear Andreas,
Your very special CD, "In the North", was received a few days ago. We
listened to you and Paul with pleasure. Your interpretation of Jimmy's
compostions was creative, original and still loyal to the originals.
And, your playing is most impressive. You and Paul compliment each
other as only espcially talented people do. There is a growing audience
in the world who will appreciate this album very much (as we do).
Thank you for your hommage to Jimmy and thank you for your talents.
Jimmy has a smile on his face when he listens.
Warm regards to you,
Juanita & Jimmy Giuffre
The new
issue of Martin Kunzler's Jazz Lexikon was released in November 2002 by
Rowohlt. Between the bio¹s of Basie-arranger Ernie Wilkins and
Tony Williams you¹ll find: "Andreas Willers....combines different
contrasting techniques, worlds of sounds and traditions to an own sound
that¹s easy to identify despite it¹s broad range. On the
basis of tastefulnes, compositional spirit and a feeling for dramatic
range his music is bouncing between dense chordal structures and single
note passages, the screaming of his thorough blues roots and the
intimate poetry of Jim Hall, ...electronic sound wizardry through
devices....and the discrete charm of acoustic string artistry. ...."
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