LOM Olaf Taranczewski

• 1 Sherpa 05:46
• 2 Spring 05:07
• 3 All That Land 04:50
• 4 We Have Time 05:52
• 5 The Spaces Between Us 04:10
• 6 Maurice 02:08
• 7 Esbjörn 05:17
• 8 Sunflower Dream 05:51
• 9 LOM 04:31
• 10 Darkest Before Dawn 02:02
• Total Runtime 45:34

Info for LOM

‘LOM’, the second album by the Taranczewski trio with pianist Olaf Taranczewski, bassist Jean-Philippe Wadle and drummer Benedikt Stehle, is directly related to its remarkable predecessor “When I Was”. Because ‘LOM’ is the antithesis of ‘When I Was’ in every respect - conceptually, playfully, in terms of mood and sound. And yet the trio in no way relativises its debut, but - on the contrary - remains absolutely recognisable with its signature and impressively rounds off its spectrum.

‘LOM’ is a collection of descriptions of states whose proximity to Scandinavian jazz is unmistakable. Olaf Taranczewski himself lived in Sweden for some time and is very familiar with the music of Esbjörn Svensson, to whom one song on the album is dedicated, and the pioneer of Swedish jazz Jan Johansson.

‘LOM’ is nothing less than a utopia. With their second album, Taranczewski provide the soundtrack to the urban need for deceleration and thus find a much wider audience than a trio of piano, bass and drums would suggest. Their plays on the web are already in the millions. On ‘LOM’, they are now presenting the world with the basic work of a long overdue sound philosophy, the reach of which cannot yet be foreseen.

‘You can clearly hear that the pianist is an award-winning composer of film music and therefore has an excellent feel for dramaturgical tension and evocative storytelling.’ (Josef Engels, Rondo)

‘This is the gentle rebellion of jazz.’ (Volly Tanner, SCHALL Magazine)

‘Jazz that is absolutely timeless and very modern at the same time. (Ralf Dorschel, Play Jazz! NDR)

‘Piano trio at its best.’ (Daniella Baumeister, HR2, Jazz Now)

‘Like hardly any other current release, this production breathes that Berlin all-time spirit that cannot simply be gentrified away.’ (Wolf Kampmann, Jazz thing)

Taranczewski

Taranczewski Trio


Pianist Olaf Taranczewski has known bassist Jean-Philippe Wadle and drummer Benedikt Stehle for decades, yet they have never played together in this particular configuration.



While the pianist is the composer and namesake of the band, as is readily apparent on their debut album, *When I Was*, Taranczewski is a stable trio whose contributions and playing styles are evenly and—more importantly—equally distributed.

The three musicians are connected not only by their shared passion for making music, but also by their shared love of listening to music.

These formative experiences are evident on *When I Was*. In essence, they tell each other stories of this shared listening on the album, and the listener has the privilege of being able to hear these gentle narratives.

Olaf Taranczewski
(born 1977 in Hofheim am Taunus) comes from a German-Jewish-Polish family. He studied jazz piano at the Mainz University of Music and jazz arrangement at the Cologne University of Music. He has lived in Berlin since 2006.

He has composed music for the feature films and television movies "Mi America" ​​(HBO), "Schweigeminute" (Movie/ZDF), and "Hier und Dort" (MDR), as well as regularly for television programs such as "Frontal 21" and "Satirischer Jahresrückblick" (ZDF), and TV documentaries since 2011.

For the score of “Dissonance” (directed by Till Nowak), he received the German Film Music Award in the main category “Best Music in a Film” in 2015, as well as the award for Best Film Music in Annecy, France. In 2009, he won the award for Best Film Music at the Lünen Film Festival.

With visual artist Phil Max Schöll (space graphics/pathfinding), Olaf Taranczewski created the facade projection “Homage Collage” in Weimar. He also appeared as a composer at the Magdeburg Theatre and for the operetta “Turnadot” with the musical comedy duo Carrington & Brown. For Oscar winner Volker Bertelmann (Hauschka), he arranged orchestral and string quartet versions for performances at the Elbphilharmonie and the Berlin Konzerthaus.

Olaf Taranczewski, together with visual artist Phil Max Schöll (space graphics/pathfinding), created the facade projection “Homage Collage” in Weimar.

Since 2017, Olaf Taranczewski has been Professor of Producing with a focus on Jazz & Pop at the Trossingen State University of Music.

Jean-Philippe Wadle
(born 1980 in Pirmasens) won first prize at the "Jugend jazzt" competition in 1998 and 2001 and studied double bass at the music academies of Mainz and Cologne between 2002 and 2006.

In 2003, he founded the Bassface Swing Trio, which continues to this day. Wadle has worked with musicians such as Tom Gaebel, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Lalo Schifrin, HR Big Band, Tony Lakatos, Axel Schlosser, Ralf Hesse, Scott Hamilton, Manfred Schoof, Ack van Rooyen, Hans Dekker, Bruno Müller, Wolfgang Haffner, as well as Katja Ebstein, Alexander Marshall, and Tony Marshall. From 2015 to 2022, he was a member of Emil Mangelsdorff's quartet.

Wadle can be heard on albums by Gee Hye Lee, Daniel Stelter, Andreas Gabalier, and Eugene Ruffulo. In addition to numerous concerts throughout Europe, he tours the USA and South Korea. Jean-Philippe Wadle lives in Ingelheim am Rhein.

Paul Benedikt Stehle (born 1984 in Sigmaringen) moved to Berlin at the age of 17 to become a professional musician. After auditions for Berklee College of Music and the Los Angeles College of Music, Benedikt Stehle received two scholarships and studied in the USA.

After graduating, he toured the USA and Indonesia for two years. During this time, he lived and worked in the New York music scene. Among other things, he toured as the regular drummer for Sammy Adams, a Boston-based rapper.

In 2008, Stehle returned to Berlin and worked live, in the studio, and on television, collaborating with artists such as Beth Hart, Mousse T., Barbara Tucker, Dendemann, Emma Lanford, Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello), Della Miles, Steve Lillywhite, Mo’ Blow, The Weather Girls, Aly Keïta, Joachim Deutschland, and Balbina.

In addition to working as a freelance session musician, he is a permanent band member of pop singer Alexander Knappe and the Romanian Balkan band Fanfare Ciocărlia. With this group, he contributed several tracks to Sacha Baron Cohen's internationally successful 2020 film "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" (Borat 2). He can be heard not only as a drummer but also as the vocalist on the Balkan version of the classic "Just the Two of Us," which is featured in the film's end credits.

Paul Benedikt Stehle
(born 1984 in Sigmaringen) moved to Berlin at the age of 17 to become a professional musician. After auditions for Berklee College of Music and the Los Angeles College of Music, Benedikt Stehle received two scholarships and studied in the USA.

After graduating, he toured the USA and Indonesia for two years. During this time, he lived and worked in the New York music scene. Among other things, he toured as the regular drummer for Sammy Adams, a Boston-based rapper.

In 2008, Stehle returned to Berlin and worked live, in the studio, and on television, collaborating with artists such as Beth Hart, Mousse T., Barbara Tucker, Dendemann, Emma Lanford, Eugene Hütz (Gogol Bordello), Della Miles, Steve Lillywhite, Mo’ Blow, The Weather Girls, Aly Keïta, Joachim Deutschland, and Balbina.

Besides working as a freelance session musician, he is a permanent band member of pop singer Alexander Knappe and the Romanian Balkan band Fanfare Ciocărlia. With this group, he contributed several tracks to Sacha Baron Cohen's internationally successful 2020 film "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" (Borat 2). He can be heard not only as a drummer but also as the vocalist on the Balkan version of the classic "Just the Two of Us," which is featured in the film's end credits.

This album contains no booklet.