Jazz is Expensive

by KUHN FU

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Side 1: Jazz is Expensive, the new version of "The Fisherman and His Wife" by Brothers Grimm
Side 2: Live in Saalfelden

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1.	Flounder 03:18 video		buy track
2.	Once Upon a Time 05:28		buy track
3.	Fight 04:30		buy track
4.	Fisherman 03:35		buy track
5.	Marcel de Champignon & Ilsebill.com 03:23		buy track
6.	Bruno the Architect 01:54		buy track
7.	Mantje Mantje 01:58	info	buy track
8.	ilsebill Blues 02:34		buy track
9.	Interlude 01:34		buy track
10.	Timpe Te Shuffle 05:59	info	buy track
11.	Servus Servus Schuhplattler 02:24		buy track
12.	NO 03:52		buy track
13.	How Could That Be 01:08		buy track
14.	The End 03:40		buy track

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On Jazz Is Expensive, Kühn tells the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Fisherman and His Wife" in a new and different way. Kühn's style does the rest: with a forced German accent, the story is transformed into a modern fairy tale in English. The main character is the fisherman Marcel De Champignon, a horn player who is looking for the perfect melody - "the melody that makes millions". The fish is supposed to fulfil his wish, “Bruno the Architect” is his name. The website Illsebill.com also plays a major role. How Kühn’s lyrics arise spontaneously on stage can be heard on the second CD/Vinyl of this double album, Live in Saalfelden, which features all new compositions except two old band staples Nosferatu and Maharani. The immense enthusiasm with which the musicians of KUHN FU go about their work is the same in the studio and on stage. Whether in the variations on the always extremely beautiful melodies that Christian Kühn composes as a starting point for the pieces or in the free improvisations: A perfectly coordinated band develops music from the common movement that has never been heard before.
The “Invisible Jazz Wall”, as Christian Kühn calls it, which is supposed to protect tradition from the vulgar, carnivalesque and nonsense, needs to be torn down. In this picture, KUHN FU are something like the trombones of Jericho.

credits

released October 14, 2022

KUHN FU VII
Christian Kühn - guitar, voice, composition
Tobias Delius - clarinet, tenor saxophone
John Dikeman - tenor saxophone
Ziv Taubenfeld - bass clarinet
Sofia Salvo - baritone saxophone
Esat Ekincioglu - bass, voice
George Hadow - drums

All compositions and words written by Christian Achim Kühn
Recorded 13/10/21 at Zentrifuge Berlin by Tito Knapp
Editing Aaron Ghantus
Mixing & Mastering by Werner Angerer
Artwork by Artur Bodenstein

www.kuhnfumusic.com
www.berthold-records.de
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www.youtube.com/c/KUHNFU

Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media and Berliner Senat.

(c) 2022 by KUHN FU
Published by Berthold Records and Alisa Wessel Musikverlag

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KUHN FU Berlin, Germany

Not only the band name is martial. In their "Jazz Punk Psychedelia", the band KUHN FU of guitarist, composer and master of ceremonies, Christian Kühn, turns everything through the improvisational wolf. Zappa meets cabaret, surf sounds and metal riffs ride the Chattanooga Choo-Choo, while Shakespeare, Brecht and Monty Python are the godfathers. ... more

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Oct 18

Speicher

Husum, Germany
Oct 19

Musikbunker Aachen

Aachen, Germany

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