TRANCE GROOVE / DOMINIK VON SENGER / PICARD3000

In the organizer's words:

Fri., 08.11.24

Admission 7 pm Start 8 pm

Blue Shell Live:

TRANCE GROOVE Memorial Concert

Lounge, Future Jazz, Downtempo

/// Ten years ago, the TRANCE GROOVE band founder, mastermind and drummer Stefan Krachten passed away. In memory of their friend, the band is reuniting with its original line-up from the nineties for a few concerts in the fall of 2024.

Keyboarder/multi-instrumentalist Jürgen Dahmen takes over the drums, the rest of the line-up consists of DJ Heli (turntables), Thomas Kessler (keys), Dal Martino (b), Reiner Winterschladen (tr) and Helmut Zerlett (keys).

Helmut Zerlett says about the music of TRANCE GROOVE: "The music that I have made with Stefan Krachten since our school days together has been a common thread throughout our musical work since the 80s: the bands Dunkelziffer, The Unknown Cases, Goldman and TRANCE GROOVE all had a common denominator.

The music of TRANCE GROOVE at that time was already conceived in the same way that we still make it today - a logical evolution of the principle that we had previously launched with Dunkelziffer: We got together for concerts and played freely together for one and a half to two hours. In TRANCE GROOVE music, there were always tape loops with the basic groove and key of the respective track. This is the basis with which we play, in order to reinterpret this basic structure at each concert and shape it into a unique version of the song. This gives us maximum artistic freedom with a minimum of specifications. Incidentally, the loops result in a special kind of song structure: the length of the tape automatically determines the length of the piece. :-)

Despite the many computer loops, TRANCE GROOVE was never part of the electronic scene. With six live musicians on stage, it is clearly more handmade than electronically reproduced music. The loops play the role of a rhythm box that runs along with the music, similar to the way CAN used to work live with such devices.

TRANCE GROOVE thus creates a very special kind of party atmosphere. That's probably what people like about us. There are very good musicians playing, and every time we go on stage it will be a special, unique event, always something new. So there will never be two identical TRANCE GROOVE concerts, even though it's actually the same program. Every concert is emotionally unique, depending on what the moment offers."

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trance_Groove

https://web.archive.org/web/20081006090605/http://www.spinnerace.com/spinnerace2006/tgbio.html

DOMINIK VON SENGER

Dub Experimental Kraut Trance

A key figure in the later Cologne krautrock scene. The former guitarist of Dunkelziffer and the Phantom Band, Dominik von Senger, took the Can sound and transformed it into a kind of sophisticated fusion.

Cologne's music scene has always been extremely colorful, open and sometimes even friendly, across all genres. Folk music, carnival, electronic avant-garde by Stockhausen, Kagel and co, jazz highlights from the radio studios and the Stadtgarten, crossover experiments by Can, rock in dialect by Bap, punk by Zeltinger, and later, in the 90s and 00s, the new electro scene from the Liquid Sky environment. From 1980, there was a very idiosyncratic, jammy, crossover scene around the then squatted Stollwerck factory building in Cologne's Südstadt district, which later existed as a self-managed cultural center for another seven years. During this time, the Dunkelziffer, Damo Suzuki Band and Phantom Band formations, with musicians from the Can environment, in particular drummer Jaki Liebezeit and vocalist Damo Suzuki, were active in Cologne's alternative music scene. The Phantom Band included the later Harald Schmidt Show keyboarder and composer Helmut Zerlett, percussionist Olek Gelba, former Traffic bassist Rosko Gee and guitarist Dominik von Senger (* 1955). He had already released a solo album in 1983 with 'The First', 'The Second' followed shortly afterwards (1995 ;-), in the meantime Dominik could also be heard with Wolfgang Niedecken & Complizen, in the Jango Edwards Roadshow also with Stefan Krachten, with The Ya-Ya's or on the legendary crossover hit 'Masimba Bele' by The Unknown Cases, until today with Drums Off Chaos ... and always oscillating between avant-garde rock, reggae grooves, dub sounds, slo-mo afro-rock feel, projects, performances and bizarre happenings. I'll never forget the Dunkelziffel concert at the Stollwerck, where you couldn't hear Dominik for an hour as he strummed chords with the volume pot turned down, until he suddenly opened up his guitar and played the best Clapton solo of all time, only to disappear into inaudibility again. 20 seconds of extremely sustained quality work.

With the kind permission of Lothar Trampert

https://soundcloud.com/dominik-von-senger

PICARD3000

Ambient / Jazz / Groove

For the concert on 8.11.24 at the Blue Shell, together with Trance Groove and Dominik von Senger, PICARD3000 have invited Jens Küchenthal, who has toured with Damo Suzuki as a drummer, among others.

They play freely on stage. No agreements, no conventions, no expectations. Instead: Interaction, empathy and community as the basis for creating sound.

PICARD3000 creates an authentic, organic connection between spherical soundscapes and harmonic-musical sounds and melodies. Their music is powerful, powerful, multi-faceted, emotional, profound, dynamic and rich in contrast, shocking and unpleasant to soothing.

Line-up:

Jens Küchenthal - drums

Simon Doetsch - trumpet

Chris Mock - synthesizer

http://picard3000.art/

🎟️ Tickets: Vvk: 20.- Euro (plus fee)

B.O. 25 €