Nils Wograms Root 70 feat. Shannon Barnett & Theresia Philipp

"Old-fashioned" is a wonderfully old-fashioned word that actually exists in almost every language. "Old fashioned" or "démodé" - while this term had a dusty connotation just a few years ago, today it expresses the opposite of "old-fashioned", namely a self-determined resistance to ever faster incoming new trends and technological developments that determine our lives, but at the same time detach themselves from them, because you always have to have the next new thing in mind. "The Pristine Sound Of Root 70", the new album by Nils Wogram's band Root 70, is old-fashioned in the best sense of the word in a very lively, refreshing and authentic way. It makes us pause, reflect, take a deep breath and slow down. From the very first note, it gives us something familiar that just wants to be rediscovered and adapted. If you want to draw on references from the past, the album sounds like a date between the Gerry Mulligan Bob Brookmeyer Quartet and the Albert Mangelsdorff Quartet of the late 1960s. Trombonist Nils Wogram, saxophonist Hayden Chisholm, bassist Matt Penman and drummer Jochen Rueckert manage to open completely new doors and windows for our time with the combative serenity of those years.