Niels Klein / Tubes and Wires

Tubes and Wires

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2013 / nwog 006

Line-Up:

Niels Klein – Clarinets, Effects

Lars Duppler – Rhodes, Analog Synthesizers, Harmonium

Hanno Busch – Guitar, Bass

Jonas Burgwinkel – Drums

Niels Klein’s new quartet is not your everyday line-up: with Lars Duppler on e-piano, synthesizer and harmonium, Hanno Busch on guitar and bass, Jonas Burgwinkel on drums and the bandleader on various clarinets, Klein presents forceful rock music but played with the attitude of jazz musicians when it comes to instrumental technique. The Hamburg born saxophonist, clarinettist and composer called his band and his new CD somewhat jokingly Tubes & Wires. Tubes stands for the various clarinets that he plays and Wires represents the many electronic, analogue and digital devices that he connected with cables and that drive his ‘effect clarinets’.

Photo: Lutz Voigtländer

Klein’s Tubes & Wires quartet in fact sounds as if, he, together with his band mates transported Joe Zawinul’s motto
for his seventies’ group Weather Report "We always solo, we never solo" into the present for contemporary
improvisers from Europe. Klein explains, "I step back from the position of a soloist, and act with my effect clarinets
more like an electronic "wind organ". My band mates offer a flexible set of instruments that consists of guitars,
basses, keyboards and drums in order to create a strange analogue-electric sound."