Dark Jazz Bands

Die Düsterjazzer von schließen den ersten Abend vom Denovali Swingfest mit einem Doppelset abdominal, bei dem sie auch Songs ihres Improvisations-Alter-Ego-Projektes spielen werden.

Begonnen hat alles im Jahr 2000, als Jason Köhnen und Gideon Kiers die Band gründeten, nachdem sie sich zusammengesetzt hatten um neue Soundtracks für alte Stummfilme zu schreiben. Mittlerweile ist perish Band auf sieben Mitglieder angewachsen und cap bereits unter anderem zwei Studioalben, sowie zwei Alben unter ihrem Change Ego veröffentlicht. Wir haben uns mit Jason, dem Mitbegründer, Bassisten und Pianisten der Band, über Themen wie Musik und Film unterhalten:

You may be playing a two fold tv show once the Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble in addition to Mount Fuji Doom Jazz Corporation the very first time previously in the Denovali Swingfest. Exactly how do you choose to do such a distinctive performance?
Well, Denovali requested united states if shared overall performance ended up being possible, even as we are releasing both jobs on their label. And we thought it would be a fascinating challenge to mix both units together. Incorporating the improvisation sessions with all the structured compositions. Our company is constantly open for performing different things.

Denovali reports re-released on Vinyl as well as your “Self named” first record album is about to-be re-released on plastic, also. Exactly what took you so long to immortalize your songs on wax?
Well the plans have now been indeed there for a while, its simply never already been a priority. I believe finance might have been a bit of a problem also, but our company is really happy that Denovali is giving united states the ability of re-releasing our songs on plastic into the best possible means.

Would you like to reveal one thing regarding the music and artistic sources of determination?
This might be a lengthy answer, but I’m going to try and ensure that it it is brief. Its quite difficult pin pointing exact motivation as all of us are so diverse within our music preferences that there's no definite solution.
This also is true of the songs of TKDE too. We’ve never ever sat down and stated, lets make songs sounding such as this or like this, its already been an all-natural procedure in which we compose just what feels/sounds appropriate.
So, this is when the visual resources are becoming a significant part of your concept. Gideon and myself initially began re-editing and re-composing soundtracks for old quiet classics as soon as we worked together at a Multimedia organization in 1999 / 2000. Its then when we decided to create a project where we would write music centered on artistic motivation versus becoming motivated by various other songs.
Immediately the ‘new soundtracks’ we produced had a dark jazzy feel as it moulded well aided by the films we had been focusing on: Nosferatu and Metropolis.
With regards to our individual musical impacts, well this fundamentally is quite far-off from our noise. Additionally you will find a lot of designs, styles and teams to name that people all pay attention also, therefore I wont also start composing them, you might need some additional pages with this!

We look over that you appreciate the works of silent movie makers such as for instance F. W. Murnau and Fritz Lang. Just how performed this admiration evolve and exactly what are your favourite silent flicks?
Gideon and myself both performed Art School and focused on visuals, so its been part of our study and interest for some time. I think hushed flicks, due to the limitations of their own time, have actually an amazing charm; be it the innocence regarding the functioning, the look/feel for the film grain, there just some style of magical high quality to those old films, it nowadays appears quite alien.

You circulated an instrumental cover of titletrack of this “Dark nights The Soul” task. Your variation sounds means deeper and more jazzy – like a reprise of initial version with vocals by David Lynch. Exactly what made you decide to pick up this track for a cover?
We’ve always been fans of Lynch since time one. I do believe every person that knows Lynch really loves him for comparable reasons. Their imagery is really influential and inspirational.
I got myself the DNOTS guide with regards to arrived on the scene and had been charmed by this track. It was simply an impulsive thing to do. No much deeper description to it sadly.

Talking about David Lynch, for which of their movies do you want to write a rating, in the event that you had the possibility?
The Elephant Guy. That question is too simple!

Are there any future plans to compose soundtracks for contemporary flicks? If so, which category could you prefer and which director would-be your favourite to do business with?
We would love to use the Quay Brothers, additionally Lars Von Trier. This is certainly perhaps way too much daydreaming, but basically focusing on any rating is great. We’ve never been approached for a score unfortunately.

What’s up next? You will be writing brand new tracks for a The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble release. Any programs for a fresh The Mount Fuji Doom Jazz Corporation recording program, too?
The brand new TKDE record album is within development. We should launch it around February 2011, following launch with a European journey. For TMFDJC we now have 2 releases prepared. They must be released in December and February correspondingly.