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Ensemble Du Verre - The Contemporary Cowboy - out on Batterie Records

Friday 07 October 2011, 15:01

Ensemble Du Verre The Contemporary Cowboy
Ensemble Du Verre - The Contemporary Cowboy
(CD/Digital) Batterie 015, 2011-10-07

Sönke Düwer, who has led the Ensemble since 2003, has put together a small group of musicians previously unrelated to the Ensemble Du Verre. Thanks to the British tenor sax player Penrose Feast the record has a strong jazzy touch and a big melodic diversity. Double bass player Marc Muellbauer from Berlin added a warm deep sound and a very special energy. With his additional creative beats and sounds drummer Oliver Sonntag from Lübeck plays an important role in the record's impressive instrumental sound. The contribution of Eden singer and the ensemble's vocal partner for many years, Ute Lorenzen, is an unearhty choir on Seven Miles Down, while guitar player Lothar Müller from Hamburg has added an ultra modern western guitar on All Hat And No Cuttle.This album feels like the successor of the prize-winning CD Sanctuary For Animals and is a manifestation of the uniqueness and the independence of the composer, musician and producer, Sönke Düwer, who not only has played the drums but also all keyboards, guitars, electronics and percussion. The Contemporary Cowboy, out on October 7th on Batterie, will be release No 15 since the label was founded in 2008. The new E.D.V. band will play several concerts beginning with the Überjazz Festival on the last Octoberweekend at Kampnagel in Hamburg.

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Kollektion 2011 - Batterie Label Compilation - out on Batterie Records

Thursday 15 September 2011, 14:50

Batterie Kollektion 2011
Various - Kollektion 2011 - Batterie Label Compilation
(CD/Digital) Batterie 014, 2011-09-02

The Hamburg-based german label Batterie Records will be releasing its new compilation Kollektion 2011 on september 2nd, 2011. As usual with this label, the CD is self-distributed so anyone interested in this music should get in touch with batterie-records.com asap... The CD is the continuation of the label's compilation series, the sequel to Kollektion 2010. This time they gave their attention to the electronic recycling - some call it remix... Not only pearls of the past are to be heard, but also exclusive and up to now unreleased tracks. And on the cover you can see, that they take every risk on them to play batterie (french for drumset) to the gallery.

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Ensemble Du Verre - Short Story About Walt - out on Batterie Records

Friday 20 May 2011, 00:27

Ensemble Du Verre Short Story About Walt
Ensemble Du Verre - Short Story About Walt
(Digital) Batterie 013, 2011-05-20

With Short Story About Walt Ensemble Du Verre presents the second single of the upcoming album The Contemporary Cowboy (to be released in September 2011). With this track, mastermind and multi instrumentalist Soenke Duewer passionately pleads for the combination of different musical ingredients. In several sessions with himself he created a melting pot of his unique drum playing, an intense use of various electronica and acoustic guitar, representing Duewer's approach in The Contemporary Cowboy. In addition A Green Meadow is back with the second remix for Batterie. With his turbulent dubstep version he not only spins the original further but lifts it on a pulsing club level. This second presentation rises the excitement for the fourth Ensemble Du Verre album and lets the listener stay tuned...

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Ensemble Du Verre - Emily's Poem - out on Batterie Records

Monday 07 March 2011, 14:42

Ensemble Du Verre Emilys Poem
Ensemble Du Verre - Emily's Poem
(Digital) Batterie 012, 2011-03-04

Soenke Duewer's cinematic jazz project, Ensemble du Verre, is back with brand new line-up and single, Emily's Poem, which will be followed by a full length album, A Green Meadow, to be released in May. The label is a small one from Hamburg, Germany, called Batterie, and we've been supporting them for a few years now.

This new single navigates in Bonobo or Cinematic Orchestra's waters of seductive and fresh lounge jazz electronics, with a leftfield remix by Netherlands producers/DJs Rupert & Mennert. A joyful jazz release leaving us wanting for more. Someone should definitively book this band for a few gigs in France!

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Eden - Expansions EP - out on Batterie Records

Tuesday 01 February 2011, 00:22

Eden Expansions EP
Eden - Expansions EP
(Digital) Batterie 011, 2011-01-14

Eden is a garden where everything we love and enjoy grows and flows. This is what the liner notes to Eden's debut album A Home for You say. Timo Weiner and Soenke Duewer, who is introducing his latest project A Green Meadow right here, adopted this idea. In two completely different electronic remixes, both of them present Eden's music from a DJ's perspective. The original songs are still unmistakably there, but new beats and sounds turn the initial folkjazz/singer-songwriter-soul into something definitely danceable.

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Ensemble du Verre - Versions, Vibes and Remixes - out on Batterie Records

Friday 20 August 2010, 22:13

Ensemble du Verre Versions Vibes and RemixesEnsemble du Verre Versions Vibes and Remixes
Ensemble du Verre - Versions, Vibes and Remixes
(CD/Digital) Batterie 009, 2010-08-20

GENRE: Jazz / Electronica / Breakbeat
FOR FANS OF: Medeski, Martin & Wood, Flying Lotus, Pharoah Sanders

Versions, Vibes & Remixes is CD series. Energie Du Verre got the ball rolling in 2009. And now it's time for Ensemble Du Verre – the second album of the series is released August 20, 2010. By the end of 2009, I finally succeeded in bringing the master rights for E.D.V.'s first two albums Facing. Transparent (SPV 2004) and Sing Me Something (SPV 2005) back home. It had been a long and hard struggle with the record company's insolvency administrator. To celebrate this victory, I decided to re-release this music on my own label Batterie. But that was just the start...

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Kollektion 2010 - Batterie Label Compilation

Sunday 21 March 2010, 12:30

Batterie Kollektion 2010
Various - Kollektion 2010 - Batterie Label Compilation
(CD/Digital) Batterie 006, 2010-03-19

With twelve tracks from a total of seven albums and EPs, Batterie's Kollektion 2010 is an aural showcase of the label's oeuvre so far. It features tracks that had been published in the last two years since the creation of the Hamburg-based label as well as new versions of older Ensemble Du Verre tracks and a remix by Norwegian mastermind Bugge Wesseltoft. Sönke Düwer aka Batterie Du Verre who produced all music on Batterie to date, handpicked some of his tracks from the last couple of years to form a new and exiting set. In spite of their various musical influences, these tracks seem to form a consistent and coherent album. It's their jazz background that sticks them together like glue. The compilation also demonstrates the evolution of the Batterie label into a steadily growing and inspiring community of musicians.

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Eden - A Home For You

Tuesday 16 March 2010, 12:31

Eden A Home For You
Eden - A Home For You
(CD/Digital) Batterie 007, 2010-04-16

Eden is a garden, that's for certain. The garden of gardens even, a fantastically free space, in which everything grows and flows as good as it knows. The name fits perfectly then to this organically nurtured musical project, which the composer, producer and musician Sönke Düwer has now realized together with the singer and songwriter Ute Lorenzen and eight instrumental guests. With the debut-album A Home For You Eden now presents nothing less than their roots, and their world – where a truly dreamlike soprano voice sings over a plucked guitar, muted trumpet and bowed cello, while warm Wurlitzer-Sounds swing over soulful beats. The music meets somewhere between Folkjazz and Singer/Songwriter-Soul, sometimes intimately in a small circle, then again with the deep force of a large group.

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Energie du Verre - Versions Vibes and Remixes

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 22:33

Energie du Verre Versions Vibes and Remixes
Energie du Verre - Versions Vibes and Remixes
(Promo CD/Digital) Batterie 005, 2009-11-27

13 month after the release of the debut album, it is now followed by the Versions, Vibes & Remixes EP on Batterie. 4 brand new tunes, 3 versions and 2 remixes add up to 9 fresh new tracks by Energie Du Verre. Some focus on the dance floor, others more on jazz. Some lean towards funk and some towards electro. Energie Du Verre's music refuses to be pigeonholed. Instead, it invites the listener to dive head first into a musical microcosm. Du Verre and his two remixers proof just how diverse today's club music scene is.

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Groove Galaxi - Back In The U.S.S.R.

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 22:28

Groove Galaxi Back In The U.S.S.R.
Groove Galaxi - Back In The U.S.S.R.
(Promo CD/Digital) Batterie 004, 2009-11-06

Four endless years Groove Galaxi have spent on a mission into infinite space. The band which travelled the globe with it's typical vision of dancefloor jazz as the live act of the legendary Mojo Club is now back from outer space. They have landed in the USSR - and they've brought the Beatles with them. Including a remix by Energie du Verre.

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