Hamburg SpinnersMod Jazz to watch octopuses pass by

03/12/2021

Hamburg Spinners
Mod Jazz to watch octopuses pass by

Mod Jazz to watch octopuses pass by

Please interrupt your current activities for a musical intermezzo deluxe. It’s about one of the most favourite bands of the educated-cool-team: the Hamburg Spinners. They left their home port for an underwater expedition to the open ocean – diving for unheard tunes, finger snappers and floaters.

Always in danger of encountering the Magic Octopus, a voracious entity who feeds on harmonies, rhythms and breaks – the whole arsenal any musician is lost without and damned to drown in a sea of endless darkness…

Listen yourself, enter a different world and witness how the Hamburg Spinners are getting carried away and drawn into the depths – like a 20.000-mile plunge into the sea.

“DER MAGISCHE KRAKEN” (= THE MAGIC OCTOPUS) is the sophomore album of the HAMBURG SPINNERS, a contemporary soul, mod-jazz and R&B outfit based in Hamburg.

Their sound blends floating Hammond organ lines, kinetic, driving grooves, funky breaks, and slicing, economic improvisation.

The quartet features Carsten Meyer on Hammond B-3, Dennis Rux on guitar, David Nesselhauf on bass, and Lucas Kochbeck on drums.

»The music could spread like the arms of an octopus.«

The album was cut live on two weekends in April 2021 in Hamburg’s Yeah!-Yeah!-Yeah!-Studios. The chemistry was right and in a truly democratic process ideas were fleshed out, arrangements were done on the spot.

And though there are limits on the sound of the Hammond organ quartet creativity can burst out & find its way to overcome the limits.

Reminiscences of down-to-the-bone songs by Timmy Thomas or Phoenix might come to one’s mind when listening to the new Hamburg Spinners album – enjoy!