New Albums
Our new Quartet CD has been released last week! It’s called NIAQUE - Awake and distributed through our new label FLOAT Music. Besides Philipp on guitar and me on tenor & soprano saxophones it features David Helm on bass and Fabian Arends on drums.
You can find audio tracks, pictures and videos HERE on my website and you can also stream it on Spotify or any other platform of your choice. Enjoy the music!
Cover art by Nadine Targiel
A lot of great music is being released these days. Despite the difficult financial circumstances for Jazz releases many artists keep creating great stuff and put all their energy into making beautiful records. I was lucky to be part of two very special projects that now have been released. On the one hand this is Sebastian Boehlen who has written very challenging and exciting music for quintet. On the other hand Dierk Peters put together a six piece band where I had the pleasure to play only clarinets. Please feel free to check the music out and buy a CD if you like it!
Dierk Peters - vib | Stefan Karl Schmid - cl, bcl
Bastian Stein - trp, flgh | Laurent Derache - acc
David Helm - b | Fabian Arends - dr
Sebastian Böhlen - git | Magnus Schriefl - trp
Stefan Karl Schmid - sax | Max Leiß - b
Peter Gall - dr
The Subway Jazz Orchestra will release its third album next month. It's called RICHBECK and contains a new Suite for Jazz Orchestra by Tobias Wember. Please check out the SJO Website for more info. The CD is exclusively available through FLOAT Music.
New CD out now by the REZA ASKARI TRIO - ROAR (klaeng records). Great music and beautiful artwork, feat. Reza Askari on bass, Fabian Arends on drums, Sebastian Müller on guitar and myself on tenor, soprano and clarinet. Get your copy HERE.
A few days ago the SUBWAY JAZZ ORCHESTRA released its debut album PRIMAL SCREAM on FLOAT MUSIC. It features 8 compositions by the 4 orchestra arrangers Johannes Ludwig, Jens Böckamp, Tobias Wember and myself. Everybody involved put a lot of effort in the working process and we are very pleased how it all came out. Thanks to the beautiful acoustics of the Kammermusiksaal at Deutschlandfunk, the masterful work of sound engineer Christian Heck and the great orchestra performance the CD is really audiolicious. More Info here.
Artwork by Nadine Targiel
This week my new quartet CD STEFAN KARL SCHMID/ PHILIPP BRÄMSWIG - ANIMA is going to be released on META records. We produced this record at the Deutschlandfunk Studios in Cologne with a fantastic bunch of people. Thank you very much Robert Landfermann, Jonas Burgwinkel, Christian Heck, Christoph Rieseberg, Michael Fossenkemper, Harald Rehmann, Nadine Targiel and Jana Heinlein for your contribution.
First release concerts will be:
05/03: Ambiente, Worms
05/07: Studio672, Köln
05/09: Thorn, Netherlands
The CD can be ordered through my shop. More information and music here.
The new Michel Reis Quartet CD, Capturing This Moment received a 4-star review in the American Downbeat Magazine. CD can be ordered through www.michelreis.com
The new Michel Reis Quartet recording 'Capturing This Moment' is now officially released. It's available through all common stores. We will be playing a couple of concerts in Italy, France and Germany during the next months. Here's a short trailer:
I'm very happy to be part of Heiner Schmitz' new interdisciplinary project 'Sins & Blessings' which deals with the seven deadly sins. We will be performing live at the end of January and recording at DLF, Cologne shortly after. Here's a little preview:
01/21/2015 Altes Pfandhaus, Köln altes-pfandhaus.de
01/22/2015 Blue Note, Osnabrück cinema-arthouse.de/bluenote/
01/23/2015 Jazzschmiede, Düsseldorf jazz-schmiede.de
01/24/2015 Musikschule Anneliese-Geske-Haus, Erftstadt kulturkreis-erftstadt.de
