SHANNON BARNETT QUARTET
This quartet has been together since 2015 and features Stefan Karl Schmid on tenor saxophone, David Helm on bass and Fabian Arends on drums. Their new release 'Bad Lover' is out now on Toy Piano Records.
It's available on streaming platforms like Apple Music and Youtube, or on CD through Galileo Music or at a live concert!
Their previous release 'Hype' (2017) came out on Challenge Records/Double Moon and is also available to stream.
'...an immense pleasure to experience such a skilful performance' - Michael Rüsenberg, Jazz + The City
'A very well-coordinated team with a boss who gives her all' - Thomas Kliemann, General-Anzeiger Bonn
JANET BONNET
'You Go Me On The Cookie'
Janet Bonnet's first single 'You Go Me On The Cookie', is an exploration of the literal translation to English of German phrases. The video, made together with
Jesse Thomas, is a comment on the way women are represented in the pop music industry.
WOLVES AND MIRRORS
This new project combines songwriting with open improvisation. Featuring Shannon on trombone and voice, Heidi Bayer on trumpet, Elisabeth Coudoux on cello and Thomas Sauerborn on drums, the band had it's debut at the 2019 Klaeng Festival in Cologne and released it's first album on March 31st, 2021 on Klaeng Records.
Also available on Bandcamp.
"The entire album is at times full of beautiful fragile moments, in which the artist dares to be her most vulnerable."
- Richard Wagenaar, The Next Gig
"There is deep humanity in every note of the record, with stories told by complex personas through a show-don’t-tell approach. The lyrics and compositions are rich and authentic." - Matty Bannond, Free Jazz Collective
DEAD WEIGHT
'Dead Weight' is an installation for musicians and fitness studio.
It was first performed in October 2018 in the Bushido Fitness-Studio in Cologne, Germany and featured four pieces; 'Fahrrad Frei' for saxophones and stationary bikes, 'Skin Deep' for three singers and female changeroom, 'End of the Bargain' for three double basses, cello and rowing machine, and 'Deep Work' for power trio and fitness instructor.
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
'Bad Lover'
Shannon Barnett Quartet
(Toy Piano Records)
'Hype'
Shannon Barnett Quartet
(Challenge/Double Moon)
'Wolves and Mirrors'
Wolves and Mirrors
(Klaeng)
'Bright Eye'
LIUN +
the Science Fiction Band
(Heartcore)
'Between Panic and Peace' Barnett/Anning/Keller
'Subsonic'
Sebastian Gramss'
States of Play
(Rent a Dog)
'Fractures'
Fabian Arends
(Klaeng)
'Songs You Like a Lot'
HR Big Band feat.
John Hollenbeck,
Gary Versace, Theo Bleckmann
and Kate McGarry
(Flexatonic)
'Time Labyrinth'
Simon Nabatov
(Leo)
'Pyjama'
Stefan Karl Schmid
'Marble'
Hendrika Entzian +
(Traumton)
'Channels of Energy'
Antonio Sanchez
and WDR Big Band
conducted by Vince Mendoza
(CAM)
'Köln'
Marshall Gilkes
and the WDR Big Band
'My Personal Songbook'
Ron Carter and the
WDR Big Band
(In and Out)
'Ragstretch'
Ragstretch
'Country'
Shannon Barnett Quartet