Message To Outer Space (CD edition, 2023), by Sebastian Gramss' METEORS

Message To Outer Space (CD edition, 2023)

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1.	We Spin Dizzily 05:23	buy track
2.	Wonderful World 00:40
3.	The Human Race 02:56
4.	Within Our Galaxy 04:17
5.	Stellar Orbit 02:48
6.	Encrypted Message 2 00:26
7.	Augmented Clusterfuck 02:22
8.	Our Bright Future 04:19
9.	Perfectly Balanced 05:55
10.	Happy People 01:42
11.	Encrypted Message 3 00:37
12.	Inconveniences 04:43
13.	Nano-Boosted 04:04
14.	Encrypted Message 4 00:22
15.	No Reason for Concern 03:49
16.	Promised Land 05:33
17.	See What We´ve Done 02:26

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Intergalactic broadband sound from Cologne – The album is a well-balanced status report from Earth – diverse in tone, music and with a disturbing lyrical message. An autonomous type of Deep Space Jazz -composed, arranged and realized by bandleader Sebastian Gramss, staged by six exceptional protagonists of the current Continental jazz scene – unique, explicit, unmatched.

The band plays almost weightlessly, passionately – a sentient organism with short torque and abstract elegance, demanding and appealing. Expressive, almost narrative, if like in the opener “We Spin Dizzily” as a collective accelerating wobble narrates the earth as derailed tumbling consciousness in orbit…

Perplexity that “Human Race” raises as the only spoken text on the album: backed by a subtle SciFi soundscape, the paradoxical text links the title names of the album to form a whole:

Our earthly habitat as a wonderful Class-A planet – full of chances and possibilities… and yet also with some annoying problems as “augmented clusterfuck“.

„No reasaon for concern, my alien friend. Come by … and see what we’ve done.“

Odd grooves, atonal spots, electronic shadows, theremin, parallel lines, polyrhythms today´s ingredients of States of Play, which were awarded the German Jazz Prize in 2022.

A chin-deep ballad like “Promised Land”, which draws its exhausted dark grace directly as if from the individual listener, is rare. Conceptual continuity becomes evident by a unison powerplay in “Our Bright Future”, or by hidden codes in the “Encrypted Messages” as Earth Status Report 2023.

METEORS – message to outer space is an artistic appeal in contemporary music that doesn’t need the appeal and yet transports it. Jazz in the keynote that doesn’t have to remain what it was or will become, surprisingly accessible, intergalactic, spooky and inspiring at the same time.

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credits

released May 26, 2023

Shannon Barnett – trombone
Hayden Chisholm – saxophone
Philip Zoubek – piano, synthesizer
Christian Lorenzen – e-piano, synthesizer
Sebastian Gramss – double bass
Dominik Mahnig – drums

additional drums: Thomas Sauerborn
additional synths and sound design: Sebastian Gramss
live effects: Stephan Vester
vocals: Shannon Barnett and Hayden Chisholm
prepared disklavier on "See What We've Done" by Sebastian Gramss
additional contributions on "Stellar Orbit", "Perfectly Balanced" and "Inconveniences":
Valentin Garvie – trumpet
Etienne Nillesen – prepared snare
Nicola L. Hein – guitar

music composed and arranged by Sebastian Gramss with the band members
"Encrypted Message" 1–5 by Sebastian Gramss / Philip Zoubek
text on "The Human Race" by Sebastian Gramss

produced by Sebastian Gramss with Ana Lakčević + UK Rattay
label: rent a dog

recorded in June and July 2022
by Christian Heck and Lukas Lohner @Loft, Cologne (Live and Studio)

additional recordings:
Robert Nacken at Studio Piethopraxis, Cologne
Clemens Orth at Salon de Jazz, Cologne
Jörn Nettingsmeier at Fattoria Musica, Osnabrück

mixed by Reinhard Kobialka + Sebastian Gramss @ Topaz Studio, Cologne
mastered by Reinhard Kobialka

artwork: Natalia Manta
graphic design / typography: Sandra Opiela
photos: Philip Lethen

thanks to: Ana Lakčević, Reinhard Kobialka, Natalia Manta, Melanie Rossmann, Thomas Sauerborn, the LOFT with Bennie and Hans Martin, Lukas Lohner, Christian Heck, Stephan Vester, Robert Nacken, Valentin Garvie, Nicola L. Hein, Etienne Nillesen, Christian Ramond, Sandra Opiela, Fabian Ahrends, Wanja Slavin, Clemens Orth, Jörn Nettingsmeier, Stefan von Wylick, Maurice Graf, Benno Glüsenkamp, Philip Lethen, Jeroen Van Vleit, Mal Webb

special thanks to all the sponsors:
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW,
Kunstiftung NRW, Inititative Musik und Musikfond

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Orchestral moments á la Ellington and Mingus, Zappa-esque allusions and sonic avant-garde: the essential anatomy of music is broken down to its core elements and repeatedly reassembled in an explosive multiplicity. The result is a multidimensional and shifting music that evolves in an organic flow, continually forming new configurations. ... more

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