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VocColours - four free voices
Gala Hummel, Brigitte Küpper, Iouri Grankin, Norbert Zajac
VocColours’ four improvising voice-artists from NRW/Germany have joined to fathom the
different possibilities of their manifold voices and to create new musical worlds between harmony
and friction, rhythm and chaos, archaic sounds, surprising humor, spontaneous neologisms and
expressive or ruminant sound shapes. Again and again their single voices unite into a single
sounding body.
The music of VocColours has been described by the audience i.e. as a “musical journey” and as
“music to an inner movie”
Since 2011 VocColours have been sharing their musical passion with instrumentalists of their
choice to go on musical adventure trips. Thus came into being their live debut CD “ZvuKlang” that
was recorded in 2013 in St.Petersburg at a concert with the Russian piano player Alexei Lapin.
The CD has been released in the end of 2013 at Leo Records and obtained worldwide positive
response. It appeared at upper positions in several international alternative-charts and has been
nominated the CD of the month of March 2014 by the Russian jazz Magazin “Jazz-Ru.”
VocColours have been invited to perform at the 35years- of- Leo-Records-festival in the end of 2014.
This concert with TJ Shredder has been recorded by “Radio Brandenburg”
A new CD is in work and will again be released at Leo Records. It’s the recording of a concert with
Eberhard Kranemann, co-founder of the German band “Kraftwerk”
Performances with Phil Minton, Roland Graeter, Andrei Razin, Alexey Lapin, Christoph Irmer, Mark
Charig, “Partikelgestöber” (Gregor Bohnensack, Thomas Schnellen), Eberhard Kranemann and TJ
Shredder(Stefan Tiedje).
Concerts with instrumentalists
2011 Phil Minton (voice)
2011 Roland Graeter (cello, voice)
2012 and Moscow 2013 Andrei Razin (piano)
2013 Christoph Irmer (violin)
2014 Mark Charig (cornet)
2014 “Partikelgestöber” (Gregor Bohnensack, brass, voice/Thomas Schnellen, electronics,
percussion)
2014 Eberhard Kranemann (Doublebass, electronics, voice)
2014 TJ Shredder (electronics, percussion, voice)
2015 Eberhard Kranemann (Doublebass, electronics, voice), Yoichiro Kita (trumpet, electronics)