clair-obscur classic lounge - Saxophon zwischen Club und Klassik

The stimulus for this krautfunding project came from the Berlin based radiostation RBB who want to record a CD (working title classic lounge) with us. The recording costs will be fully covered by them.

The CD then will then be published on the label Spektral Classics. Unfortunately these days it's no longer the standard, that the costs for booklet, layout, production and promotion are fully covered by the label.

Also it would be great to commission a brand new composition for the CD. Which costs money, too...

Our favorite saxophone maker "Selmer" and our favorite woodwind shop "Die Holzbläser" are already supporting the project as our sponsors.
But there's still money missing - and that's where you come in!
Your donation will make this project happen.
(By the way - if we don't reach our financing aim you will get your money back - and we won't get a cent!)

For every donation you make you get a nice present from us (see on the right!)

And now some further details:

This CD focusses on music that can be played in clubs as well as in a concert of contemporary music.
All works on this CD will be world premier recordings.

Newly arranged works by the minimal music greats Steve Reich and Philip Glass will be joined by original works by baltic composers Arvo Pärt and Rihards Dubra.
Also the renowned Berlin based composer Walter Zimmerman (who is a professor for contemporary composition at UdK Berlin) will arrange one of his early, surprisingly meditative works (The Garden of Forgetting) for us.
And the CD will feature a very cool saxophone quartet version of Ligeti's "Hungarian Rock",
and last but not least the recording of the brand new work that we'll commission from our favorite composer Christian Biegai.

This project is for everybody who likes clair-obscur or the saxophone in general or just saxophone quartet or Christian Biegai.

The aim of this project is to produce a very cool CD and publish it on the label Spektral (http://www.spektral-records.de/index2.php?aktuell?de),
Also we always aim to broaden the repertoire for saxophone quartet. With all these new or newly arranged pieces on this CD we'll really add a great range of pieces to the canon.
Our final aim is to get Christian Biegai to write a piece for saoxphone quartet - we think it will be a great new work!

In the last few years it has become very popular in Berlin to play classical music in clubs.
Starting of with "Yellow Lounge", followed by "RBB Classic Lounge" and Arte Lounge, clair-obscur was part of this movement and had the opportunity to play in all these lounges.

Inspired and fascinated by this concept we had the idea of recording a CD featuring contemporary music that would work in both environments: concert hall and club.

Music that (maybe not even conciously) uses elements of club music like Drum&Bass or Lounge Music.

With your help there will be 70 minutes of cool contemporary music in this world, all newly arranged or composed for saxophone quartet!

With your support we can make an awesome contemporary music CD!

The fundings will go to publishing the CD "Classic Lounge" on Spektral Classics (that will cost us about 3000€)

We will commission Christian Biegai a piece for saxophone quartet (2000€)

And we'll be able to finance the necessary prerecordings of Steve Reich's Vermont Counterpoint (which originally needs 12 saxophones, so we have to prerecord 8 tracks - unfortunately there won't be enough time for doing that during our RBB recording session) (1000€)