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muzycy:
Andreas Heuser: guitar
Antje Vetter: violin
Kioomars Musayyebi: santur
Sahbi Amara: oud
Ammar Alia: nay
Nikola Seegers: soprano saxophone
Yavuz Duman: flugelhorn
Ina Möllerherm: trombone
Jens Pollheide: bass
Güntug Eren: percussion
Benny Mokross: drums

Editor's info:
For years, the Transorient Orchestra has stood for a fusion of musical cultures that could probably only be created in the Ruhr region of Germany. Twelve musicians from Germany, Turkey, Iran, Tunisia and Syria have joined forces to create a dazzling mix of oriental melodies and rhythms with Western harmony and jazzy improvisation. Since its foundation, the ensemble has met with a lively public interest and received the WDR Jazz Prize in the category Music Cultures in 2017. At the time, the jury found: “For years, the Transorient Orchestra has been more than simply a larger, multicultural band that brings together refined improvisation and concise composition, Western rock and jazz with Eastern rhythms, Arabic melodies, Persian tones, and this with impressive force and class. It is a band that very offensively understands its musical fusion work beyond all purity laws as the natural music of the highly urban region in which it is at home, which has always been marked by migration flows and encounters between strangers.”
This full-bodied praise also applies to the new album “Zip Zip”, which presents the music of the ensemble in nine new songs with incomparable variety.

The album begins with the title track of the band leader and guitarist Andreas Heuser. “Zip Zip” combines a simple, almost childhood melody with a 7/8 bar that is typical of the Black Sea region, especially interpreted by the percussionists of the Transorient Orchestra but with a light and sweet Latin feeling. “Nihavend Longa” dates back to the Ottoman period at the end of the 19th century and is very well known in Turkey. “Our brass players support the theme and give it a different color at the same time,” Heuser said about the arrangement. “Gol E Saye Chaman” is a Persian piece enhanced by Santur player Kioomars Musayyebi with an introduction and numerous solos. The love song “Ben .......
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