Gouveia Art Rock Festival 2025
We are coming to Portugal on May 1st and are really excited to see you!
The festival tickets will be available for preseale starting Wednesday Februray 5th at 2p.m.! (Tickets)
All the best and see you soon!






Year-end concerts
We couldn’t have asked for a better way to close out the year!
Huge thanks to Pavillon Hannover and Jazzclub Regensburg e.V. for these amazing nights with all of you! A big thank you to the whole band – playing and touring with you is the greatest gift for me!
(And today’s my birthday too!;) Now, I’m ready for 2025!
Wishing you all a fantastic start to the new year!











Fotos: Jacek Brun und Sarah
Happy Holidays
Thank you all so much for your support, this means the world to us!
The whole big band wishes you a joyful and peaceful holiday season
…and maybe we’ll see you live at our last two concerts of 2024:
26.12.24 Jazzclub, Regensburg
27.12.24 Pavillon, Hannover

Foto by Ludwig Olah
Portugal, we are coming in 2025!
We are absolutely thrilled to be bringing our show to Portugal 2025!
We will be playing at the Gouveia Art Rock Festival on May 1! This will be our first time in Portugal and it is going to be so special – get ready for a wild ride!
See you soon!



Fotos: Ludwig Olah
Nuremberg concert, thank you!
Nuremberg, we just love you – you’re amazing!
A huge thank you to everyone who joined us at Z-Bau on Saturday – we had an incredible time! We’re already looking forward to next year in Nuremberg (22. November 2025)!
Here are a few first photos from the night – thank you, Ludwig Olah!
Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season!







Concert in Nuremberg is sold out!
Time flies, and we can hardly wait: our concert at Z-Bau Nürnberg is just around the corner—and it’s completely sold out! We are absolutely overwhelmed and grateful for your support!
To all who couldn’t snag a ticket this time: the next date is already set!
November 22, 2025, at Z-Bau Hall. (Tickets are available now)
We look forward to seeing you!:)





Fusion Festival
Fusion Festival, we had an amazing time! So much passion for detail – we were psyched!!
There is a “no photo on the dancefloor policy”, so it looks like there was no audience, but there was! A very lovely one!
We just realized, that our last concert for this year (and next year?) in the Munich region will be happening soon – if you want to see us, better come now!
Next concert:
July 17: Alter Speicher, Ebersberg (close to Munich) (Tickets)









“JazzFacts” Interview Deutschlandfunk
Today, June 27, from 9 to 10 pm, you can hear me in a fun interview “JazzFacts” with Thomas Loewner at the radio broadcasting station Deutschlandfunk, tune in! (… only it is in German again, sooner or later I hopefully will be on a podcast in English!)
here is the live stream
the recorded show is archived for one week, listen to it here

Photo: Emanuel Klempa
Podcast
It is podcast time!
I’ve been invited to the german “Zwei Flaschen Wein – Dein Podcast” we talk about death metal, franconia (a region in bavaria where I am from), stage outfits and lots more! (And the franconian slang is increasing over time with the drinks !
)
Here you can listen!



Fusion Festival 2024 – let’s gooo!!
We are so happy to announce that we play at the amazing Fusion Festival on Saturday June 29!!Bring your tents, dancing shoes, witchy outfits and dragons, this will be epic, we are so excited!! Who will be there?

Ampere Munich Concert
We had a blast last Sunday at Munich, Ampere!! 💜
After a short break we will be back on the road for the summer dates, we hope to see you there!☀️ If you want to listen to us at home, visit our band store or Bandcamp, where you can find our music on vinyl or CD (we handle the packaging ourselves), and for even more updates follow us on Facebook or Instagram! See you soon!
Next concerts:
July 17 – Ebersberg, Altes Kino
July 26 – Burg Herzberg Festival
September 28 – Kornwestheim, Das K
November 30 – Nuremberg, Z-Bau
December 27 – Hannover, Pavillon











Photos: Emanuel Klempa
Jazzfest Bonn
Thank you Jazzfest Bonn, we had a wonderful time! And what an amazing crowd!!…you were on fire!! Now we are looking forward to May 5th, when we play at Ampere, Munich. We start at 8pm and will play an exciting set with a few specials. Some songs we haven’t played in a long while (though for the most part it is still the “Witchy” album). And we will bring a limited number of vinyls signed by the whole band. We can’t wait!









German Jazz Prize
We won the German Jazz Prize “Composition of the year” for our piece “8 Prinzessinnen”! What an honour! Thanks to the whole German Jazz Prize team, the Initiative Musik, the jury and Marieke Meischke for the wonderful laudation! Though I did write the compositon by myself, it is my bigband and its 18 musicians that make the piece come to life through their own sound, improvisation, creativity and passion! I love you guys, you make it all possible!


Not all members could come to the award ceremony, but the four of us gave it all to represent the whole band! Writing the piece was a quite prolonged process. At the beginning there was a newspaper headline: “8 princesses stand trial”. What on earth could eight princesses have cooked up? In my imagination they turned into influencers who stole the fountain of youth, endowing them with eternal youth, beauty and life. But now they face the court, they glow and luminesce, denying all wrongdoing. As for the composition, I wanted to set in motion some kind of musical wheel that keeps on stumbling, but is also consistent in itself. Some kind of morse code. Out of it, another wheel materializes, clutching on to it, as if two bands were playing at the same time, continiously disjoining and re-aligning. In between we have two amazing soloists, Sebastian Nagler on baritone and Alistair Duncan on trombone, firing it all up.


To get all this recorded for the album we had an amazing team, and I want to thank them all for their great work! It is called “Witchy Activities And The Maple Death”, we released it in 2023 on our own label Zenna Records (the name is derived from the my hometown Langenzenn). Here you can order the album (CD or vinyl) and here you can take a listen. And of course, we will be playing the song “8 Prinzessinnen” live:
01.05. Opernhaus, Bonn ➜ Tickets (sold out)
05.05. Ampere, München ➜ Tickets here
17.07. Kulturfeuer Ebersberg ➜ Tickets here
26.07. Herzberg Festival ➜ Tickets here
30.11. Z-Bau, Nürnberg ➜ Tickets here
27.12. Pavillon, Hannover ➜ Tickets here
We’re looking forward to seeing you there!


May 5th at Ampere, Munich
We are LIVE on May 5th at Ampere, Munich!
It will be an intense, magical and fiery live show between avant pop, art rock and math jazz! We will leave the walls trembling and are looking forward to seeing you there! (Tickets)

Foto: Ludwig Olah
Burghausen Jazzfestival
Burghausen Jazzfestival, we had an amazing time!
Here is a great article about the whole festival by Oliver Hochkeppel in German newspaper “Sueddeutsche Zeitung”. In the “Passauer Neue Presse” Erwin Schwarz wrote: “Elfs and the voodoo queen – mystical stuff at cityhall between avantgarde and Big Band sound.” Next concerts are at Jazzfest Bonn on May 1, and at Ampere in Munich, our hometown, on May 5th. Hope to see you around! (Fotos: Frank Rasimowitz)



