WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAY ABOUT SNOOZE-ON
„Snooze-On gelingt mit „Drawn“ etwas viel zu selten gewordenes: eine tatsächlich bisher so nicht da gewesene, zeitgenössische Verschmelzung des besten aus Jazz, New Age und avantgardistischen Instrumentalidealen mit einem hohen Grad an Wiedererkennungswert und dem Zeitgeist von E-Musik: ein eigener Charakter! ” - Soultrain
„Snooze-On vermischt kernigen Prog-Rock mit Beach-Boys-Melodik, lässt Streicher und Harfen auf Lap-Steel-Gitarre und Vibrafon treffen – und erschafft damit atmosphärisch dichte Klangerzählungen, die sich irgendwie poppig ausnehmen, aber niemals irgendwelchen gängigen Bauprinzipien folgen. Das Ergebnis ist die nahezu perfekte Balance zwischen Kunstwollen und publikumsaffiger Hymnik.“ - Jazzthing
Just exciting music filled with surprises, meaning and groove!“ – Greg Cohen (producer of Tom Waits, bass player of Ornette Coleman, Bill Frisell, John Zorn)
// Markus Ehrlich // Charis Karantzas // Christian Tschuggnall //
Founded as an acoustic instrumental jazz-quartet, the project around drummer and composer Christian Tschuggnall wandered off more and more into bigger sonic realms. By doing this they still remain their dogma to keep the „song“ as the highest good to be transported to the audience.
Up until their debut-record „Snooze-On“ they followed this idea entirely without vocals, just with the instruments saxophone, guitar, bass and drums. Despite complex arrangements and compositional density, the band protects their songs like a sheperd, to bring them to the audience as directly as possible.
With time going on there developed a inner circle among the band members around composer and drummer Christian Tschuggnall, guitarist Charis Karantzas and saxophonist Markus Ehrlich.
With their new album „Drawn“, which released in May 2016 on the established Berlin-based label Contemplate Music, the band expands their sound and instrumentation drastically. Using the original quartet as a basis, they enlarge the band sound with vocals, string quartet, piano, vibes, horns, lap-and pedal steel guitars and harp. The main singer is the guitarist Charis Karantzas.
Although the members of the group are deeply routed in the Jazz-tradition, their approach for the project is such as you normally find in pop-or rockgroups. In the foreground there’s not soloists or lines, but the songs, their mood and the sound of the whole.
All this the band brings to life on stage. For that they get support from well known French violinist Héloïse Lefebvre as well as number one call bass-players Thomas Stieger and Bernhard Meyer.
Live Line-Up
Héloïse Levebvre – violin
Markus Ehrlich – tenor sax/clarinet/flute
Charis Karantzas – git/vocals
Bernhard Meyer/Thomas Stieger – electric bass
Christian Tschuggnall – drums
