impassioned

UNIT Records

The new album of the Lorenz Raab Quartet is full of energy, with a desire to collectively reach a point of frenzy.
A quartet, that is staffed with an electric guitar instead of an acoustic piano indicates already that these musicians are not searching a traditional, in the mainstream of "Modern Jazz", kind of sound. The multicolored and unconventional sounds employed by Matthias Löscher , often oblique and exciting , are essential to the sound of the Lorenz Raab quartet and the guitarist himself shines with his wild and virtuosic solo explorations.
But also the tender and more impressionistic compositions by Lorenz Raab, played in interaction with his highly emphatical band members wonderfully stand out. The warm and full tone of Lorenz Raab s trumpet, played in a highly inventive and original way, carried by the sometimes unison , sometimes staggered bass lines coming from Matthias Pichler, driven by Lucas Niggli's energetic Grooves results in the nicely spiced soup that the Lorenz Raab Quartet serves to us here.