Rupert Gillett Trio | Album-Release & live recording

Rupert Gillett - E-Cello & Gesang Valerie Rathmann - Bass & Gesang Tim Schmiedner - Schlagzeug & Percussion

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Ist es ein Vogel? Ist es ein Flugzeug? Nein! Es ist das Rupert Gillett Trio!

Am Freitag, dem 23. Oktober, feiert die Band die Veröffentlichung ihres Albums Do Cellos Dream of Electric Pigs mit einem Konzert im LOFT.

Wildes elektrisches Cello, eingängige Songs, swingende Tunes, seltsame Lyrics, heißer Jazz, riesige Roboter-Schweine und weitere theatralische Elemente erwarten euch in einem einmaligen musikalischen und visuellen Spektakel.

Das Rupert Gillett Trio ist nicht einfach nur eine Jazzband. Es ist nicht einmal nur eine Jazzband mit Cello. Es ist eine durch und durch mitreißende Show mit eingängigen Songs, seltsamen Geschichten, swingenden Melodien und einem Feuerwerk aus Jazz. Sie ist lustig, clever und wunderschön – und man muss sie live erlebt haben, um es wirklich zu glauben. Die Show des Rupert Gillett Trios ist für alle, die etwas Neues, Aufregendes und Anderes suchen.

Rupert Gillett ist ein britischer Cellist, Bassist, Komponist und Produzent. Er ist ein international anerkannter Jazzcellist und Spezialist für viele alternative Cellotechniken. Rupert hat mit Künstler*innen wie Jazz-Legende Jacqui Dankworth MBE, Alison Moyet (Yazoo), Shara Nelson (Massive Attack), Katy Carr, Delain und Modern Nature zusammengearbeitet und war mit verschiedenen Ensembles mehrfach im BBC-Radio und -Fernsehen zu hören. Außerdem ist er vor Publikum mit Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Jude Law, Orlando Bloom und HRH Prince Philip aufgetreten. Er ist Dozent an der Cello Akademie Rutesheim und hat auch an der Royal Academy of Music (London), dem New Directions Cello Festival (MA, USA) und verschiedenen anderen Festivals und Kursen unterrichtet.

https://rupertgillett.com/

Pressestimmen: „…A great jazz improviser" London Jazz News „…ein ebenso hervorragender wie experimentierfreudiger Cellist" Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

Klingt so: https://youtu.be/V_aNktSbFSw

Rupert Gillett - electric cello & vocals Valerie Rathmann - bass & vocals Tim Schmiedner - drums & percussion

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! It’s the Rupert Gillett Trio!

On Friday, October 23, the band will celebrate the release of their album Do Cellos Dream of Electric Pigs with a concert at the LOFT.

Wild electric cello, catchy songs, swinging tunes, strange lyrics, hot jazz, giant robot pigs, and other theatrical elements await you in a one-of-a-kind musical and visual spectacle.

The Rupert Gillett Trio isn’t just a jazz band. It isn’t even just a jazz band with a cello. It’s a thoroughly captivating show featuring catchy songs, strange stories, swinging melodies, and a fireworks display of jazz. It’s funny, clever, and beautiful—and you have to experience it live to truly believe it. The Rupert Gillett Trio’s show is for anyone looking for something new, exciting, and different.

Rupert Gillett is a British cellist, bassist, composer and producer. He is an internationally recognized jazz cellist and specialist in many alternative cello techniques and cello improvisation. Rupert has collaborated with artists such as jazz legend Jacqui Dankworth MBE, Alison Moyet (Yazoo), Shara Nelson (Massive Attack), Katy Carr, Delain and Modern Nature, and has appeared on BBC radio and television with various ensembles. He has also performed for audiences including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Jude Law, Orlando Bloom and HRH Prince Philip. He is a lecturer at the Cello Akademie Rutesheim and has also taught at the Royal Academy of Music (London), the New Directions Cello Festival (MA, USA) and various other festivals and courses.

https://rupertgillett.com/

Press: "…A great jazz improviser" London Jazz News “…a cellist who is as outstanding as he is adventurous” Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger

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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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