Peter Protschka - Organic Universe [CD]

DOUBLE MOON RECORDS

£13.95

Cat. no: DMCHR71413
Format: CD
Barcode: 608917141320
Release Date: 28 Oct 2022
Genre: Jazz

The history of hammond organ jazz is very closely connected to my personal musical biography with my good friend and musical companion ClemensOrth - and with two important places for us in Cologne, where we have both been living for some years

Clemens had only recently returned from NewYork City, where he had studied and lived for three years, when we met in Cologne in 2006. I had also traveled to New York many times since 2003after studying in Mannheim to take lessons, go to sessions and listen to great music. I had also toyed with the idea of living there for a while.In the end though, I had moved my center of life back to Cologne in the mid-2000s. Clemens and I played our frst gigs together here and in the region, and it came to my attention that amongst other things, he was also a terrifc organist. I already had a connection to the great church organ, as didClemens, because we both grew up with church music and took our frst professional steps in these sacred spaces.
In 2005 - fortunately for all who had the chance to experience it – Clemens had started to host a late night session with his big Hammond B3 in the legendary Cologne scene club STEKKEN. The mighty instrument remained on site and Clemens could be heard there almost weekly on Thursdaynights in a wide variety of lineups with the most talented cats of the Cologne jazz scene This club and the nightly sessions were "real jazz" in everysense of the word: there was heavy smoking (weed and cigarettes…) without any ventilation system, the band started very late and didn't stop until theearly morning hours. The audience partied with the band and didn't leave until the music was fnished. Here we played together very often and spentmany memorable nights. When the club closed in 2013, the Hammond organ concerts shifted to Clemens' own jazz club, the "Salon de Jazz", whichwill continue to offer a great program in Cologne's Südstadt after its complete renovation starting in summer 2022.

Here we tried out organ band formats in a wide variety of lineups until the one heard on this recording emerged. A line up can be heard here that isvery rare in this form: The orchestral playing style that Clemens employs on the organ mixes in a very special way with the two horn players and thevery transparent percussion work of Silvio Morger. We have consciously recorded only our own original music, which seemed to us to be suitable andviable for this particular instrumentation and which transports the sound of the organ quartet into the here and now. We hope you enjoy the result asmuch as we did making it.

Tracks: Canoe / Trip Bounce / Among Water Lilies / Early Autumn / One Finger Snap / Chambres Separees / Mulder's Mood / God Moves in Mysterious Ways / Samsara