#3Musix Space: Space Odyssey EJC-8D
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A space odyssey is no child’s birthday party. The infinite expanses are sometimes too much for our human minds. Even the sound spaces behave somewhat differently than on Earth. Machine noises mix with sound phenomena that our memories conjure up for us. In the middle of it all, four jazz musicians play their earthly instruments to save their souls. A music and sound adventure between distant galaxies. The writing ambitions of ex-professional trumpeter Horst Grabosch are not a new phenomenon. Already in 1995, the trumpeter’s last jazz album was based on stories instead of notes. He took up some of the improvisations again in 2021 and processed them in this album. The time between the live recording and today brought new possibilities in digital music production, which could bring out the emotions of the songs even more impressively through added sounds and spatial sound techniques. There are great solos by Marius-Müller Westernhagen guitarist Markus Wienstroer and performance artist Frank Köllges, who died in 2012. – Estimated watchtime: 40 minutes.
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Space Odyssey EJC-8D
The Story of the Project
I released my last CD as a jazz trumpeter 25 years ago and was thrilled with the result. A completely new form of free improvisation that is not based on the musical conventions of the current jazz scene, but on stories that were told to the improvising musicians. Shortly after the release, a burnout put an end to it.
It is in the nature of marketing that the music could no longer reach a wider audience. But now there were these great new possibilities of digital music processing. So I grabbed 5 tracks from the CD and inserted the first track into my digital workstation. It was obvious that the atmosphere of the spaceship and the unreal conditions of outer space should be emphasised with additional sounds.
As the tracks had already been mastered for the CD in the style of the 90s, the overall sound space was not coherent and the raw recordings were no longer available to me. I then split the CD track into three tracks and filtered out the low, mid and high frequencies. By further processing the sound characteristics of each track, I was able to create a completely new mix, which I also enhanced with 8D techniques. The result was this music, recorded in the spirit of jazz and dressed in the sound of an experimental electronic production.
