Playdate TOYTOY

• 1Music Upstairs02:59
• 2Gravity04:19
• 3Henninghenkorg (Prelude)00:35
• 4Back to the Fusion03:36
• 5Silent05:35
• 6Element02:58
• 7The Middle of the Album01:52
• 8Slow Down (Remix)02:51
• 9König Wowo00:47
• 10Things We Forgot05:09
• 11Inspector Wowo03:08
• 12Playdate03:40
• 13Womba Ceremony00:52
• 14Little (Prelude)00:44
• 15Light02:46
• Total Runtime41:51

Info for Playdate

TOYTOY is a musical gathering of four virtuoso instrumentalists. While channeling influences from Frank Zappa to J Dilla, they also like to inhale the inspiring global smoke of the hip new jazz scene. Propelled through their live shows by untamed energy, they also get cozy in the studio, where they’ve created a unique style that features ever-surprising guests. A bass heavy groove with an extensive drum and percussion palette plus a cornucopia of mesmerizing guitar sounds: TOYTOY

Alex Eckert, guitar
Daniel Stritzke, bass
Silvan Strauß, drums
Samuel Wootton, percussion, mallets
Guest musicians:
Lukas Klapp, piano (tracks 1, 10)
Vera Schmidt, violin (tracks 2, 3, 4, 14, 15)
Julia Mahns, violin (tracks 2, 3, 4, 14, 15)
Audrey Bashore, viola (tracks 2, 3, 4, 14, 15)
Ruben Jeyasundaram, cello (tracks 2, 3, 4, 14, 15)

TOYTOY
This Hamburg Musicians Collective delve into a treasure-trove of global experience from the international playground. World-wide tours with acts such as Nils Landgren, Maria Joao, Chet Faker, Fünf Sterne Delux/Das Bo, Flo Mega, JRBB, Matthias Schriefl, Fiva, Urban Academy and Wootton’s Toystory indicate the players' eclectic cartography.

Now they calibrate their instruments afresh for their own musical expedition. The parameters are the freedom of jazz, the variety of urban sub-cultures, boundless technique and incorrigible creativity.

Specimen evidence includes their debut LP, on the roaming Hamburg Label JazzLab, 'Vamos a la Player' and their forthcoming tour. Join TOYTOY's game, follow the journey.

This album contains no booklet.