Wild Life Markus Stockhausen

• 1 Session One 28:52
• 2 Zwielicht 09:46
• 3 Mangrove Dance 17:35
• 4 Moonlight In Your Face 05:30
• 5 Walpurgisnacht (Fast Lane) 05:09
• 6 Lucid Dreamer 13:20
• 7 Zeitreisende 17:09
• 8 Spotlights 20:58
• 9 Aconcagua 14:40
• 10 Der Dorsch 13:29
• 11 Vogelflug 06:12
• 12 Flussaufwärts 21:27
• Total Runtime 02:54:07

Info for Wild Life

Markus Stockhausen gilt weltweit als einer der besten Trompeter. Unablässig forscht er produktiv und erfolgreich im Schnittfeld von Jazz, Klassik, Neuer Musik, Improvisation und elektronischen Experimenten nach neuen Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten. „Wild Life“ ist hier und jetzt sein opus summum auf drei CDs, ein echtes Statement des heute Denkbaren und Machbaren, von, wie es Markus Stockhausen selbst nennt, „Intuitiver Musik“. Die Wild Life Sessions, die Anfang 2018 in Bonn stattfanden, sind auch ein musikalisches Wiedersehen mit Stockhausens Bruder Simon Stockhausen, mit dem er seit fünfzehn Jahren nicht mehr live oder im Studio gespielt hatte. Simon Stockhausen ist zu einem international bekannten Sound Designer avanciert, was man hier gut hören kann – auch ist er der Hauptverantwortliche für die Abmischung der Musik. Die rhythmischen Grundlagen werden von den beiden Schlagzeugern Bodek Janke und Christian Thomé gelegt. Thomé war auch beim Erfolgsalbum „Far Into the Stars“ beteiligt, ebenso wie der Cellist Jörg Brinkmann. Florian Weber ist ein weiterer Musiker, mit dem Markus Stockhausen seit vielen Jahren erfolgreich zusammenarbeitet. So entstand weit atmende Musik, die durch die Klasse und Phantasie der Beteiligten unmittelbar ihre epische Magie entfaltet und eine magnetische Sogkraft entwickelt. Doch auch kommt der lässige Groove an vielen überraschenden Stellen zu seinem Recht. Man sieht, „Wild Life“ ist fantasievolle Kunst auf verschiedensten Ebenen, mit ganz unterschiedlichen Ansätzen.

Markus Stockhausen, trumpet, flugelhorn, electronics, voice
Simon Stockhausen, live-electronics, synth/sampler, soprano saxophone
Florian Weber, piano, synthesizer, voice
Jörg Brinkmann, cello, electronics
Michelangelo Flammia, electric bass
Christian Thomé, drums, electronics
Bodek Janke, drums, tabla

Recorded on January 31, and February 1, 2018 at Hansahaus Studios Bonn by Klaus Genuit
Mixed by Simon Stockhausen and Markus Stockhausen

Markus Stockhausen
was born in 1957 and began playing the piano at the age of six. In 1975 he began to study piano and trumpet at the music school in Cologne. One year before his final exams he was the 1981 winner of the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb prize. Since then he has regularly performed as a soloist, including many premieres such as the trumpet concerto “Jet Stream” composed for him by Peter Eötvös in 2002 and performed for the first time with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London. He is also a regular guest at renowned international music festivals.

Markus Stockhausen is one of the most versatile musicians of our time. He is as much at home in jazz as in contemporary and classical music. For about 25 years he collaborated closely with his father, the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, who composed many beautiful works for him. With his brother Simon he realised several internationally acclaimed musical projects.

As soloist, improviser and composer Markus Stockhausen is in international demand. He leads or collaborates in various ensembles with musicians like Arild Andersen, Patrice Héral, Mark Nauseef, Jörg Brinkmann, Angelo Comisso, Christian Thomé, Ferenc Snétberger, Florian Weber, and plays intuitive music in the duo Moving Sounds with his wife the clarinettist Tara Bouman. His group Eternal Voyage features musicians from India, the Netherlands and Lebanon. From the year 2000 until 2010 he directed a concert series called Klangvisionen with intuitive music in the church of St. Maternus in Cologne. Rolf Zavelberg was responsible for the artistic light design.

As a composer he has received commissions from, among others, the RIAS Chamber Choir, The London Sinfonietta, the Orchestra d‘Archi Italiana, the Winterthur Chamber Orchestra, the Cheltenham Music Festival and the 12 Cellists from the Berlin Philharmonic. In 2007 he wrote “Tanzendes Licht“ for trumpet, big band and string orchestra for the Swiss Jazz Orchestra and the Camerata Bern, as well as “Symbiosis“, a double concerto for clarinet and trumpet with string orchestra, comissioned by the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra. In 2009 he composed “Oliver’s Adventures“ for children’s orchestra and choir, in 2011 “Yin“ and “Yang“ for the Metropole Orchestra, premiered at the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam for the Holland Festival. Also in 2011 he wrote “GeZEITen“ for about 600 musicians, comissioned by the Niedersächsische Musiktage in Cuxhaven. In 2012: “Ein Glasperlenspiel“ for solo trumpet and accordeon orchestra, 2013: “Das Erwachende Herz“ for solo trumpet, clarinet and voice and symphony orchestra, commissioned and performed by the Hamburger Symphoniker.

Markus Stockhausen also teaches in various situations, including “Intuitive Music and More” and “Singing and Silence”. To date he has released or participated in more than 70 CDs. In 2005 he was the winner of the WDR jazz prize.

Booklet for Wild Life