Wedding

Description

The story of Conic Rose is closely intertwined with the Berlin neighborhood that gives
the record its name. The band’s studio is located here, and both studio albums were
created in the immediate vicinity of the small river Panke. This place settles over the
music like a warming patina.
The album feels as though the musicians and the neighborhood have invited one
another to get to know each other. Not least because Wedding also means marriage.
These marriages between a band and an urban landscape, a fading past and an
emerging future, fear and hope – unfold in every single song on Wedding.
Previous album was supported by BBC Radio 6 Music (Gilles Peterson) and featured
in Jazzwise and Jazzthing. Also received a 4/5 review in MOJO : ‘ITS PROGRESSIVELY
PLAYFUL TRACKS DABBLE WITH HASSELL, BACH, RADIOHEAD, HIP-HOP BEATS AND
WOOZY ELECTRONICS, PROVIDING A MASTERFUL SHOWCASE FOR THE MAZY
TRUMPET MELODICS AND FORLORN FLUGELHORNS’
For their second album, Conic Rose repositioned themselves completely. Not in
terms of personnel, but in the question of how to move forward. Conic Rose still
sound like Conic Rose; their distinctive blend of cinematic jazz, ambient textures and
guitar-led contemporary music remains untouched. And yet Wedding is, in many
ways, the conceptual counterpart to their debut album Heller Tag. Where the debut
documented movement within an urban setting, Wedding describes a state of being.
Behind every piece seems to hover a large question mark.The group opens up its
palette, allowing more influences, becoming at once more subtle, more profound,
more filigree. It is less about definition than about the spaces in between.
The most immediately striking difference from the previous album is the strong
presence of the guitar. In Bertram Burkert’s playing, many voices seem to converge.
His yearning openness forms an equal counterpoint to Döben’s trumpet and
flugelhorn. Blurred and layered sounds occasionally make the ground seem to slip
away beneath one’s feet, while Döben’s gliding lines create both closeness and
distance. –