BabyBeat
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Ordinary And Blue, Too Bahia da itacoatiara
Don´t Want To Lose You Dutch Drive
Sabor del Sol
This was the first album of the austrian Funk/Fusion/Latin Jazz band Ostinato. At that time the band already existed for some years, winning talent competitions and already playing lots of concerts. A big milestone for the group was the tour to South-America. Tommy Böröcz came back with a head full of musical ideas and he made a bunch of great compositions, integrating three horns now to get a bigger sound! Rens Newland just came into the band before and started helping to organize the vehicle and composing for the project. Also several other prominent new personalities of the Vienna scene joined the band and the touring life started.
CD Line-up: TOMMY BÖRÖCZ drums & percussion RENS NEWLAND guitars ROBERT SCHÖNHERR keyboards HEINZ JÄGER bass ANDI STEIRER percussion KARL "BUMI" FIAN trumpet WOLFGANG PUSCHNIG alto saxophone HARRI SOKAL soprano & tenor saxophone
01 Ordinary And Blue, Too 02 Footfoolers 03 Bahia da itacoatiara 04 Pure Imagination 05 Don´t Want To Lose You 06 Dutch Drive 07 Four Pictures 08 Sabor del sol
Slowwalker (CD & VINYL)
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Slowwalker Musical Prostitution
Que Vida, Me Querida Galactic Jazzdance
On a Cold Summerday Straight On Chili Con Carne
This is the second album of the Funk/Fusion/Latin Jazz band. At this time the status of the group was quite settled, after the time of big festivals like Velden and Wiesen in Austria. The band is touring at least two times a year, mostly in the german speaking part of Europe: Austria, Switserland, Germany. The main actors are still Tommy Böröcz and Rens Newland as the composers and arrangers, the rest of the band is chancing, especially because of the overlap situation with the Vienna Art Orchestra, which is very succesful at that time and doing big long tours. But Vienna is a good source for Jazz musicians. so new talents get their chance here, like the genious trumpet player Andy Haderer, who is later changing to the famous WDR Big Band on lead trumpet! The musical ideas and interpretations are fresh, partly a little more rocky or heavy grooving. CD Line-up: TOMMY BÖRÖCZ drums, congas, timbales, claves, maracas, cowbells, guiro, tambourin, keyboards on „Slowwalker“, grand piano on „Que Vida Me Querida“ RENS NEWLAND all guitars, guitar synthesizer, agogobells, Chinese bells, tambourine, Linn programming HARRY GANSBERGER keyboards, synthesizer programming ALBERT KREUZER bass ANDREAS HADERER trumpet, flugelhorn KLAUS DICKBAUER alto saxophone MARTIN FUSS soprano & tenor saxophone
1. Slowwalker 3:32 2. Musical Prostitution 3:59 3. Que Vida Me Querida 4:42 4. Galactic Jazzdance 4:17 5. On a Cold Summerday 5:40 6. Heavy Hands 3:04 7. Straight On 5:05 8. Chili Con Carne 3:05 9. Inspiration 5:33 10. Blue Extent 5:30 Bonus-Track: 11. Gulla Gulla 4:12
City in Trance
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Start Up Pilgrim The Secret City in Trance Home Run
Since decades the highly gifted and successful Austrian percussionist Andi Steirer is on tour and playing in the studio with numerous projects: Ostinato, Karl Ratzer, Falco, Fritz Pauer, Ludwig Hirsch (steady band member since 1986), Rainhard Fendrich, Austria 3, Alegre Correa, Dorretta Carter, Harri Stojka, Stella Jones, Heinz von Hermann, Cesár Sampson a.m.m.! On this album he 'eventually' presents his own personal vision in music: A “meditation about the city” with lots of percussion, deep emotions and reaching up to ecstasy! You could experience the city as one big trance sequence, with its repeating processes, work rhythms and rituals! The participating musicians are: Hannes Oberwalder on keyboards, Jojo Lackner on electric bass and Berni Schedelberger on congas. To do completely without drums is kind of novel. The soloist Andi Steirer (on bongos) builds his statements over keyboard layers, without having melody or harmony at his disposal!
01 The Secret (Andi Steirer) 02 Melody 1 (Andi Steirer) 03 Home Run (Andi Steirer) 04 Start Up Pilgrim (Andi Steirer) 05 Melody 2 (Andi Steirer) 06 City in Trance (Andi Steirer/ H. Oberwalder) 07 Stephansdom (Andi Steirer/ H. Oberwalder)
Isn't that jazz? Yes, it isn't!
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Riff Stuff Sidewalk Saxomatic House
Newspaper's Dream Turnstone Mood Improver
Fonk is our Fate Joe Carnaval
2017: An important jubilee year for Ostinato: celebrating 40 years on stage with a big Gala concert in their hometown Vienna and a jubilee tour as well! The band was founded in the middle of the seventies. From the start Tommy Böröcz was the driving power (as drummer & writer) of the project. In the eighties Rens Newland (a Dutchman in Vienna) joined the band as guitarist and writer and in the following decades these two artists shared the musical directing and the band organizing. Ostinato has gained an established name in European Funk, Fusion and Latin Jazz, the influence of which they took home from a tour in South America. The jubilee album contents exclusively original compositions and all the aspects of the typical Ostinato Sound are represented. From straight Funk through more complicated Fusion Jazz to Latin Jazz, plus three special dedications to Jimi Hendrix, Joe Zawinul and Miles Davis. The steady line-up: Christian Maurer . tenor- and soprano saxophone, Andi See . alto saxophone, Horst Michael Schaffer . trumpet and flügelhorn, Martin Wöss . keyboards, Robert Riegler . bass, Andi Steirer . percussion, Rens Newland . guitars, composition and arrangement, Tommy Böröcz . drums, composition and arrangement
01 Isn't That Jazz? Yes, It Isn't! 02 Saxomatic House 03 Push ́n ́Pull 04 Mood Improver 05 Carnaval 06 Joe 07 The Wind Carries The Blues Away 08 Sidewalk 09 Fonk Is Our Fate 10 Showtime 11 Newspaper's Dream 12 Turnstone 13 Mirror Image 14 Riff-Stuff
JM-2085-2
RAGGAJAZZ
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01. Big City Beauty 02. Mo Music
05. Love Talk 11. I Could Not Live Without You
12. Boomshaka 13. It‘s Friday - remix
Across the furthest corners of the world comes an album that was destined to happen. Just Two Strangers, is an inevitable encounter between two unlikely collaborators, Cloud Tissa (Kenia, Austria), comes from Ragamuffin & Rap and Rens Newland (Holland, Austria), comes from Funk & Jazz. This is a beautiful amalgamation of their styles
01. Big City Beauty 02. Mo Music 03. it‘s Friday 04. African Girl 05. Love Talk 06. Having Some Fun 07. They Call Her Bad Girl 08. Put a Smile on your Face 09. Heartbeat 10. Mista Mista 11. I Could Not Live Without You 12. Boomshaka 13. It‘s Friday - remix 14. Having Some Fun - remix
Elegant Dualism
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Soundtrack to my life From Dneper to Danube
Myroslav Levytsky(p) and Rens Newland(g), both great personalities on their instruments, came together the first time in 2001. In the following years a cooperation developed itself between Braty Bluzu (the band of Myroslav and his brother Oleg) and Rens Newland. Myroslav has classical and eastern roots, Rens has Blues, Rock and Jazz, so western roots. This is the very interesting and sensitive meeting of these two worlds!
01. Soundtrack to my life 02. From Dneper to Danube 03. Orange Evolution 04. Dutch Daydream 05. Turnstone 06. European Peace 07. Vienna Woods (Fragment)
Zipflo Weinrich in L.A.
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Zipflo Weinrich is one of the best violinists of Europe. As his playing and very personal interpreting was also noticed and praised in the U.S.A. he now took the chance and recorded this new album with some of his fabulous American friends: Philip Ingram, Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer, Alex Acuna... These musicians build the perfect fundament for his deep emotional playing. Great compositions and Zipflo opens up his swingy Jazz music widely into World Music as well into a Funk and Soul direction. An important next step for this great artist!
01. aldino 02. maverick 03. buko‘s song 04. the world is yours 05. lately 06. my people 07. it‘s my time 08. bass ballad 09. rocktune
Your Love (Single 6 tracks)
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The great pop lady with wonderful odes to love and to her people.
Wanna Make Love To You
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A an international album with new songs produced in Vienna.
Definitely Schrägged
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2 accordeons, a violin and tuba make the rocksongs of these recordings kind of romantic, nice flowing. The most "viennese" record of the artist till now!
01. Dancing WIth The Moon 02. Swept Away 03. Outa Sight Outa Sound 04. From Above 05. Her Peace Again 06. Some Other Wanna Be 07. Toxic Dwarf 08. Sorry 09. Friends 10. Hey There My Friend 11. The Greatest Thrill Of Them All 12. There Ain’t Nothing Wrong With You