Energie Du Verre

Soenke Duewer Aka Batterie Du Verre Let's Start In The Early 90s In Then Legendary Mojo Club Hamburg - Young Du Verre The Jazz Drummer An Composer Playing Live Drums Along With Germany's Hottest Dancefloor Act -Hipness Is Being Defined Differently - Be Honest Borderliners Face A Great Deal Of Intolerance From Whichever Side - Ask A Jazz Player And Then Talk To Club And Electro Producers - You'll Find Out They're Worlds Apart And No Offence Just Plain Experience... Haven't Got A Clue Of What The Other One Is Talking About...- Du Verre Knew - Searched And Found Musicians Who Also Knew - Did You Ever Find A Needle In The Haystack? - Du Verre Did - Players Who Were Willing To Sit Between The Chairs... 1999 - Groove Galaxi - Du Verre's Project With A Lot Of Funky Clubsound Elements But Still Kind Of A "authentic" Jazzband Working In Cooperation With The Mojo Club And Various Other DJs - Playing Jazz On A High Level But Without The Nerve Wrecking Doo Bee Doo Bee Scoopy Doo - Enhancing The Spectrum Of Clubs All Over Germany/Austria/Switzerland Aswell As Events Like The Jazzport Festival Hamburg Jazzfest Leverkusen Jazz Baltica - Interested In Some Groove Galaxi Stuff? Check Out The Mojo Sampler Vol. 9 Never Felt So Free Or The Brazilectro Compilation Vol. 6 And If You Still Haven't Got Enough Listen To One Of Four CDs Produced Between 2000 And 2005... Along The Way And Working More And More Sample Based Du Verre Started Composing And Producing Music For Various Short Films And Commercials For TV And Cinema Like Sesame Street... 2003 - Ensemble Du Verre - Du Verre Required More Experimental Space New Structures Extended Sound Options - How Do You Combine ECM And Drum & Bass? - Floating Freely Opening To All Sorts Of Influences No Musical Limitations - We All Think In Patterns Too Limited - Extracting His Personal Essence Of What Others Were Playing For Him Leaving Beaten Tracks Towards New Directions - Using The Material Of Virtuoso Jazz Players Slicing It Tearing It To Pieces Putting It Back Together Following His Intuition Rather Than The Do's And The Do Not's Of The Jazz Genre - What Next? "Facing Tranparent" - How Do You Perform The Naked Truth? - Du Verres Answer Was A Trio Solution With Trumpet Double Bass And Himself On Drums And Electronics - E.D.V. Made A Fine Start Supporting Bugge Wesseltoft On His 2004 Germany Tour Leaving The Audience And The Norwegian Colleagues Totally Flashed.... 2004 - Ensemble Du Verre - New Concept With Internationally Known Vocal Artists Such As Ursula Rucker Sidsel Endresen And Torun Eriksen - "Sing Me Something" Including A Remix Of Bugge Wesseltoft - Ursula Rucker's Immediate Response Inviting Du Verre To Produce A Track For Her 2005 CD "Ma´ At Mama"... 2005 - Energie Du Verre - Touring With The Mojo Club On Drums And On Laptop Du Verre Presents His Own Stuff The New Jitterbug Experience...The Audience And Co DJs Mesmerized.... Initiating The New And Uncompromising Energie Du Verre Project - His Favourite Dance Grooves Stuffed With 30s And 40s Schellack Samples - Enough Jazz To Keep The Conaisseur's Head Nodding Yet The Dance Crowd Fascinated By Irresistable Rhythms - Keeping His Old Passion Of Drumming Live Alive - Presenting A Highly Praised 4 Track Vinyl As A Taster For His "Dictionary Of Dance Rhythms"..... read less