专辑简介

With this opulent 16-strong line-up the HPRC turns over a new leaf in the history of orchestral pop music, as a modern, large-format big band sound meets the super-tight skeleton crew of the HPRC funk combo. The result is a decidedly new sound situated between funk and jazz, one that hasn’t been heard quite like this before – even on a global stage. The man responsible to a large degree for this sonic distinctiveness is trombonist Werner Wurm. He doesn’t simply extrapolate from the HPRC’s original three horns, but develops the possibilities of the eleven wind instruments into a multi-layered sound, which keeps a tasteful balance between straight-ahead funk and soul and a more advanced jazz language. The resulting tutti sound is impressively weighty, literally breathtaking, but at the same time of a delicate transparency, capable of bringing tears of auditory elation and cognisance to the eyes of the listener. The eight additional wind players are recruited from the crème de la crème of the Austrian music scene. Four of the country’s busiest brass players step up to the job, headed by highnote trumpeter Josef Burchartz. The sax section brings together prominent instrumentalists from different generations: Martin Fuss, Thomas Kugi, Sebastian Grimus and Markus Zahrl. During every concert, each musician will take solos, demonstrating various approaches to improvisation; virtuosity is indeed a part of this concentrated yet exuberant music-making. Aside from many HPRC classics, the repertoire contains several pieces composed especially for this line-up.