Tratosphere - Bazar bizar
RubRec-007

Track List:

1. Polarluft
2. Traveller
3. Paprika market
4. Obsidian
5. Oslolulu
6. Budragar
7. Banana Boat
8. Dr. Specht
9. Neptun's world
10. Tratomic

 




Track Length

08:16
05:40
08:50
05:51
08:17
05:47
05:26
08:22
08:42
08:10
Total time 73:19

 


£10.00

Bazar Bizar (2005) is a very colourful, transparent album. Tratosphere has worked on it over a long period of time, at different places with different people.

The three musicians extracted the essence, their best ideas out of their numerous live gigs over the past four years, and came up with this convincing studio album.

...groovy, dubby but also chilly and sometimes beatless, hypnotic....always a perfect mix between acoustic and electronic instruments, as usual!

For dessert they serve a track mixed and arranged Rastailiens!

 

It all started out in the early nineties, when DJ's started to take over the world and musicians became less and less important. Three swiss musicians did not agree with this movement and started to play live what was usually mixed by DJ's. The band was soon known as Tratosphere and whoever had heard a concert of this band, has never forgotten the unique moments when electronic music and live performance merged somewhere lost in the universe...mystic, spheric and psychedelic.

The three swiss guys mix synthesized twists and jazz-style drums with real heavy bass lines. What comes out is an exciting safari through space: downbeat rhythms meet dubby moods sprinkled with funky elements - all of this highly psychedelic.

During the last few years Tratosphere performed at openairs and clubs all over Switzerland (Reithalle Bern, UG Zürich, Peacmountain Open Air) and Germany (Voov Experience, International Jazz Festival Dortmund).

The band consists of:

 

Thomas on the bass...

...always looks out for the core of things and does hardly ever like compromises.
He is an incredible groovy bass player, as well as in deep and as in high frequencies.
A musician who knows how to reduce to the essential.

He graduated from the Lucerne University of Jazz and plays the bass also in other projects


Julian the drummer...

...is full of surprises, never forgets a beat and is always ready to take off.
Julian graduated from Lucerne University of Jazz and studied also at the Drummers Collective in New York (before 9.11...)

His odd jazzy grooves twisted the ears of many listeners and during his solos you are never sure if he really has only two arms and two feet. Julian is drumming and composing for different bands such as the civil protection orchestra, Erb_gut, Lobbit and funk'n'stein.


Peter the keyboarder...

...has a clear idea of sound-estethics and is an absolute advocat of functional harmonics.

He is the egyptian magician of sounds and noises, turning his equipment into mystic forests and grumbling storms.
For him, the expression live-act means using his fingers on hardware synths rather than pushing buttons on software sequencers.

Peter graduated from SAE School of Audio Engineering in Zürich.

 

"we cant tell you how extremely proud we are to have Tratosphere on our label here at Rubbish. I think the catolouge number on this one is particually apt, bizar bazar 007, full of action, suspense, intrigue and cliffhangers. Take note Miss Moneypenny..."
MB$
"Ozric Tentacle fans may like to know that Ed Wynne had done a remix from tratospheres first album Puls, soon to be realeased on Rubbish. When you consider this is the first remix that Ed Wynne has ever done, we would like to consider that this is one hell of an endorsement"
Stig