Release Date: 19 May 2017
Label: Cracked Anegg Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 9120016850657
Genres: Jazz Electronic
Description
With "Battleship Euphoria" Handsemmel Records sets off for new shores. Originally founded as "label for hand-blown jazz", an album without any wind instruments is a novelty for Handsemmel Records.
The 8th release within thirteen years took its time; all petty presumptions had to been thrown over board and genre gates opened all the way. Handsemmel-shipowner Klaus Nüchtern hired keyboarder Benny Omerzell (known a.a. as a member of the jazz/improv-outfit Kompost 3), who did not have a hard time finding crew members, and immediately took on board drummer Lukas König (also of Kompost 3) and guitar-payer Martin Siewert.
Originally launched with the idea to smuggle some disco into the youth club of the parish, the project veered a little from the course in the process of its making. Euphoria and ecstasy still were a big issue, "think big" worked as a guideline anyhow. On top of that, rude as well as suggestive sounds were added evoking – in combination with cantankerous heavy weather-beats – the erratic sublimity of Scandinavian coastal landscapes. Confrontation rules over fusion, with the temporal license for proggy bombast, organ-thunderstorms and guitar-hurricanes.
Based on extensive improv-sessions, which up to Martin Siewert's final mix, were dismantled, milled, hardened, riveted and welded, an album of classic LP-format (an imaginary A- and B-side and true 43 minutes) emerged that combines high manoeuvrability with extraordinary vigour: "Battleship Euphoria" – clear the decks for action!
Tracklisting
Georg Graewe Franz Koglmann Quintet
Koglmann Arcari Pasztor
Harry Sokal Groove
The Little Band From
Marina Zettl
Kevin Mahogany
Maria Christina
The Little Band From Gingerland
