“Witches Butter” was released this year. The album was recorded by three avant-garde jazz masters – Gerry Hemingway (drums), Manuel Troller (guitar) and Sebastian Strinning (bass clarinet, tenor saxophone). These three musicians are original and innovative jazz masters. Their Playing style is based on main elements of free-jazz, various experimental music styles and has some intonations of modern jazz. The musicians pay the highest attention to the unusual and extraordinary sound – they try to expand from the zone of traditional improvising and create original and modern sound. For that, they use many different playing techniques, experimental ways of playing, huge variety of musical expressions and other elements. All these things are masterfully and organically combined together in their Improvisations. Their improvisations usually have dynamic and constantly changing sound, are full of emotional, turbulent and passionate collective improvisations, furious bursts of energy and gently constrasting together with light, soft, abstract and lyric pieces. Three musicians are improvising inventively and expressive – their music is based on innovative musical decisions and original ways of playing.

This album improvisations based on avant-garde jazz elements. Three musicians are improvising absolutely different from each other – they extract and express new and specific timbres, search and try out experimental ways of playing. The improvisations a\have all the basic elements of their playing manner and sound – it’s contrasting, dynamic and interesting. Bass clarinet and tenor saxophone improvisations are full of original and dynamic musical expressions – wild and furious solos, rapid, turbulent and powerful blow outs, especially speedy and virtuosic passages, special sound effects, bursts of energy, light, slow and lyric improvisations, fascinating and outstanding spontaneous solos and many other elements are gently combined in one place. The improvisations of huge variety of different playing techniques are the source of different playing methods, expressions and moods. Vivid, striking, shrieky, loud and powerful tenor saxophone solos and deep, vibrant and solid bass clarinet improvisations bring especially live, energetic, dynamic and effective sound to this album. Guitar improvisations bring the intonations of various rock styles – repetitive and monotonic rhythms, original and expressive solos, turbulent improvisations, spontaneous and fascinating musical experiments and other elements create an effective and marvelous sound. Fascinating riffs, original playing techniques, experimental methods of playing, masterful synthesis between rock and and avant-garde jazz styles makes an effort to whole sound. Drums and percusssion improvisations are especially active, fast, loud, vibrant and striking. By using many different plaing techniques, rhythms and rhythmic formulas, Gerry Hemingway creates a turbulent, original, expressive and strong rhythmic section. Monotonic and speedy, fast and virtuosic, powerful drum rolls, playful and vivacious or slow and abstract episodes – these and many other elements are masterfully combined together in one place. Effective, deep, striking and vivid melodic section, original and expressive drum section, marvelous improvising and bright musical language create original sound of this album.