Ballads Thomas Siffling & Daniel Prandl

• 1Remember06:23
• 2Es war ein König in Thule04:08
• 3LaLeLu03:44
• 4Strollin' up the Esplanade05:27
• 5Alle Vögel sind schon da05:14
• 6Hänschen Klein05:17
• 7La Mer03:20
• 8Elegie08:08
• 9Abendlied05:47
• Total Runtime47:28

Info for Ballads

While his last two trio recordings “kitchen music” (2007) and “cruisen” (2009) were more comitted to Nu Jazz, Thomas Siffling lately felt a desire to deal intensely with the ballad-genre. After all, he always had a preference for calm tunes, which gave him the space to savor tone and melody.

After an inspirational duo-concert with Mannheim piano player Daniel Prandl, an adequate fellow musician for this ambitious project was found. Both artists joined in a creative process, tested various possibilities concerning sound and interpretation – always in search of homogeneous and warm moods. Should it be standards? Or maybe a program comprised of German folk songs? What about reharmonising children songs and treat them like standards? Ideas were roaming and strolling. What seemed to be reasonable and coherent, apparently didn’t fit in the following session.

All along the main goal for both musicians was to capture those special moments, in which the inspiration and creativity of two individuals lead to a congenial and personal interplay.

Playing in the Twilight Zone: a couple of evening studio sessions were arranged, that provided both – a relaxed atmosphere and high concentration – the basic principle to get deepness and sensuality out of musical material.

Concerning a coherent repertoire, the musicians agreed on a lucid mix composed of originals, reharmonised traditionals and internationally known titles such as “La Mer”. All intoned in a most intimate dialog of grand piano and flugelhorn (two tracks feature the trumpet), focused on the essentials: mood and sound.

Thomas Siffling, flugelhorn & trumpet
Daniel Prandl, piano

Thomas Siffling
For many years the trumpet player Thomas Siffling belongs to the forerunners concerning electronic influence in the jazz. He is valid as one of the most important representatives of the "young" German jazz scene and has made to himself by numerous guest performances in Germany and foreign countries a name. Thus he guested already among other things in Russia, India, Sri Lanka, Canada and numerous European states.

With his main project to Thomas Siffling Trio (trumpet, bass and drums) he presents a clear and understandable jazz with claim and draught. A music sounding up-to-date and young it attracts nationwide as well as internationally more and more attention. In his newest project in the duet with Claus Boesser Ferrari in the acoustic guitar "Duologix" he devotes himself rather to the modern and experimental sounds in an acoustically electronic context are put. Another exciting project the variety Sifflings underlines.

Siffling in 2005 with the famous jazz price of the country Baden-)Wurttemberg teaches excellently since 2010 at the college for music Saarbrucken jazz trumpet and pursues his own Produktions company with two record labels (JAZZ'n'ARTS and Personality Records).
Since 2006 he has his own concert series at the National Theatre of Mannheim and since 2012 he is a jazz adviser for the Jazz & Joy Festival in Worms.

Daniel Prandl
wird am 17. November 1979 in Burghausen an der Salzach geboren. Seit dem vierten Lebensjahr ist Musik fester Bestandteil seines Lebens. Als Jugendlicher findet er zum Jazz – einer Liebe, die ihn seitdem nie wieder loslässt.

Nach dem schnell klar wird, dass das Ausdrucksmittel seiner Wahl nur der Flügel sein kann, widmet sich Daniel diesem Instrument mit Haut und Haaren. So studierte er unter anderem sehr erfolgreich an der Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim und folgt einer Einladung von Jarmo Savolainen zu einem Gaststudium an die renommierte Sibelius Akademie in Helsinki.

Inzwischen zu einem der gefragtesten Jazz-Pianisten der Rhein-Neckar-Region avanciert, ist Daniel an zahlreichen musikalischen Projekten beteiligt: In der Allstar-Band Jazzgrooves von Dirik Schilgen sorgt er im Mainstream-Kontext ebenso fu?r kreatives Aufsehen wie im Duo mit dem Mannheimer Trompeter Thomas Siffling. Er ist festes Mitglied der Band "Schlag auf Schlag", die Radio- und Fernsehproduktionen für NDR, WDR und SWR musikalisch gestaltet. Außerdem arbeitet er regelmäßig für das Nationaltheater Mannheim sowie das Capitol Mannheim.

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