the KDR-Society

Line up

• alfred vogel (drums)
• herbert walser (trumpet, horn)
• herve sambe (guitar)
• kofi quarshie (conga)
• mike mondesir (bass)
• peter madsen (fender rhodes)

• country:
  Austria
• region:
  West Africa
• style(s):
  Afrobeat Jazz
• label:
  boomslang records
• type:
  Band
• gender:
  male
• instrumentation:
  instrumental, vocal
• artist submitted by:
  traps audio productions

Pressrelease
"The result is a very special kind of instrumental music, using bits and pieces of African vocal music here and there.
Humorous titles such as: "hippies were dancing the pits" or a fun sound collage intro lasting more than half a minute called "Elephanto" - need no further comment. KDR music is fun, grooves, and has a beautiful swing. (www.jazzdimensions.de

They are still around: Bands whose sound is original and unique but nevertheless catchy - so catchy you simply cannot sit still. (www.elektrolurch.com)

The music will knock your socks off track by track, song by song.
Even if you listen to this CD over and over again you still find yourself on a certain kind of expedition lead by a team of amazingly profound musicians who seem to have created a precious timeless masterpiece. www.rocktimes.de)


"...the ticket was worth buying.This can be heard again on the project's debutalbum...a mountaineering team
of a new musical Pangaea "
Jazzeit

The KDR-Society could be characterised symbolically as an honourable society of mountaineering enthusiasts on top of the highest mountain of Africa that is made up of three volcanoes and covers several vegetation zones. Even though their mastermind Alfred Vogel uses his drumsticks in the beautiful Voralberg (Austria), the steep path winds its way along groove-based song trails into the dance nirvana of Afro-American roots. With a clique of excellent musicians from Senegal, Ghana, GreatBritain, the USA and Austria (sideman for amongothers GETZ, FRISELL, TURRENTINE, MURRAY, GABRIEL, MCLAUGHLIN, COBHAM),and trusting the idea of teamwork, one sallies forth with sparing use of technology and moderate samplings on a Space-FunkAfro-Jazz-Odyssey. One soon reaches the region where jazz stops being jazz but still remains close to the basics of improvisation and thereby to solistic expression.The allure of freedom over the driving pulse of drums and percussion derives from the simultaneous simulation and recombination of familiar styles on a limitless scale of danceability. Earthy grooves lead through jazz that has been refined into intellectualised harmonies, licks and gimmicks. Steady basslines are well serving sherpas of the spontaneous sounds coming from an unleashed e-piano and a dream-walking trumpet. And from this solid foundation of rhythm and harmony arises a bordercrossing guitar in a unique glacier garden of blues, pop, jazz and world music (watch out).The result is a homogenous sound clash of ethnically differentiated music styles.This is the energising oxygen that, in the imaginary mountain air,saves one from the abyss and turbulence of pop-business cliches.
Africa shakes the jazz and rocks your club or festival And we as listeners on the mountain peak enjoy the vast view of the continuous spectacle of creation and decay of a selflimiting jazz conception.

Cast
Herve Samb...E-guitar
HerbertWalser...Trumpet
Peter Madsen...E-piano
Kofi Quarshie...Percussion,Vocals
Michael Mondesir...E-Bass
Alfred Vogel...Drums

Discographie
"LastFlightFrom Rwanda"
BOOMSLANG 2005
"Welcome to the Village" live @ jazzit salzburg
Boomslang 2007www.myspace.com/kdrsociety

Links

• website band
• website label