Frederico Heliodoro Quartett feat. Bodenstein · Helm · Greminger

Frederico Heliodoro - Gesang, oktavierter E-Bass Xaver Bodenstein - Gitarre, Synthesizer David Helm - E-Bass Anthony Greminger - Schlagzeug

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Der brasilianische Bassist und Sänger Frederico Heliodoro bringt den Sound von Rio de Janeiro nach Köln. Gemeinsam mit drei Kölner Musikern interpretiert er seine eigenen Stücke neu – ein Abend voller Improvisation und brasilianischem Groove.

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Frederico Heliodoro wurde am 2. September 1987 in Rio de Janeiro geboren und verbrachte seine Jugend in Belo Horizonte, wo er seine künstlerische Laufbahn begann. Nach einigen Jahren in São Paulo zog Heliodoro zurück nach Rio, wo er derzeit lebt. Heliodoro nahm an Milton Nascimentos Tournee A Última Sessão de Música teil und hat als Bassist und/oder Gastkünstler mit Kurt Rosenwinkel, Pedro Martins, Louis Cole, Shin Sasakubo, Bala Desejo und Roberto Gatto zusammengearbeitet. Als Multiinstrumentalist, Produzent und Komponist begann Heliodoro seine Karriere 1999 in Belo Horizonte. Er wurde zweimal von BDMG Cultural ausgezeichnet – „Young Instrumentalism 2007“ & „BDMG Instrumental 2009“. Er veröffentlichte 2011 sein erstes Album und hat mittlerweile neun eigene Projekte in seinem Katalog sowie bedeutende Produktionen für die lokale Musikszene im Südosten Brasiliens, darunter für Mahmundi, Gabriel Bruce, Affonsinho und Paulo Nazareth.

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Frederico Heliodoro - vocals, octave electric bass Xaver Bodenstein - guitar, synthesizer David Helm - electric bass Anthony Greminger - drums

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Brazilian bassist and singer Frederico Heliodoro joins forces with three musicians from Cologne for an evening of original music and intercultural exchange. Born on September 2, 1987, in Rio de Janeiro, Frederico Heliodoro spent his youth in Belo Horizonte, where he became an artist. After a few years in São Paulo, Heliodoro moved back to Rio, where he currently lives. Heliodoro participated in Milton Nascimento's tour A Última Sessão de Música and has worked with Kurt Rosenwinkel, Pedro Martins, Louis Cole, Shin Sasakubo, Bala Desejo, and Roberto Gatto as a bassist and/or guest artist. A multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer, Heliodoro began his career in 1999 in Belo Horizonte. He was twice awarded by BDMG Cultural - "Young Instrumentalist 2007" / "BDMG Instrumental 2009". He released his first album in 2011 and now has nine original projects in his catalog, as well as significant productions for the local music scene in southeastern Brazil, including Mahmundi, Gabriel Bruce, Affonsinho, and Paulo Nazareth.

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Venue:

LOFT

The LOFT in Cologne's Ehrenfeld district is exactly what its name suggests: a spacious loft on the top floor of a former perfume factory. Since 1989 it has been home to the city's musical avant-garde as well as a scene hub and a jazz laboratory for students.

Over those decades it has grown into a respected stage for improvised music, contemporary music, and jazz, with a reputation reaching well beyond Germany. Most of the Cologne jazz musicians who have made their mark nationally and internationally in the past thirty years took their first career steps here, among them Nils Wogram, Hayden Chisholm, Angelika Niescier, Frank Gratkowski, Robert Landfermann, Pablo Held, and Sebastian Sternal.

The Cologne Triennale, WDR, and Deutschlandfunk stage concerts and recordings at the LOFT, and the venue has been invited to the Moers Festival five times. Its own label, 2ndFloor, releases selected recordings, and more than 1,000 live and studio productions made in the LOFT studio have appeared on other labels. Supported by the association 2ndFloor e. V. and the collective jungesloft, it presents over 200 events a year.

Top-tier instruments – including a Steinway D grand, one of the finest concert pianos in any German jazz club – a professional recording studio with award-winning engineers, and the room's distinctive atmosphere have drawn many prominent guests, from Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, and Peter Brötzmann to Kurt Rosenwinkel, Marilyn Crispell, and Jim Black. Still, the programming focus remains on supporting Cologne's own musicians.

Since 2009 the LOFT has received the NRW venue programming award every year, an honor that specifically recognizes work with emerging regional artists. In 2016 the British Guardian named it one of the ten best jazz clubs in Europe, and at the German Jazz Prize it was voted "Club/Venue of the Year" in 2021 and again in 2023 — a category decided not by the expert jury but directly by the more than 1,300 members of the German Jazz Union.

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