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 album 'Alive at Loft' was released on
July 1st on KLAENG records and is available on CD or digitally on Bandcamp, and the Klaeng website. You can also hear it on your favourite streaming platform.
Their previous releases 'Bad Lover' (2022 - Toy Piano Records) and 'Hype' (2017 - Double Moon) are available on all streaming services, or in CD form at live concerts.
'A very well-coordinated team with a boss who gives her all'
- Thomas Kliemann, General-Anzeiger Bonn
'...a wonderful album of contemporary modern jazz, played with sure-footed professionalism.'
- Eric Myers, The Australian (review of Alive at Loft)
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
'Alive at Loft'
Shannon Barnett Quartet
(Klaeng)
'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
Meteors
Message To Outer Space
(Rent a Dog)
'Subsonic'
Sebastian Gramss'
States of Play
(Rent a Dog)
'Fractures'
Fabian Arends
(Klaeng)
'Pyjama'
Stefan Karl Schmid
'Time Labyrinth'
Simon Nabatov
(Leo)
'Songs You Like a Lot'
HR Big Band feat.
John Hollenbeck,
Gary Versace, Theo Bleckmann
and Kate McGarry
(Flexatonic)
'Marble'
Hendrika Entzian +
(Traumton)
'Köln'
Marshall Gilkes
and the WDR Big Band
'My Personal Songbook'
Ron Carter and the
WDR Big Band
(In and Out)
'Channels of Energy'
Antonio Sanchez
and WDR Big Band
conducted by Vince Mendoza
(CAM)
'Ragstretch'
Ragstretch
'Country'
Shannon Barnett Quartet