Shake Stew – Lila (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:01 minutes | 401 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Austrian band Shake Stew, led by the formidable bassist Lukas Kranzelbinder, release their sixth album ‘Lila’. To say that they’ve been on a roll since their inception in 2016 would be an understatement. With an enviable collection of awards already behind them, this year they were awarded Amadeus Austrian Music Award 2023: no mean feat as it’s the first instrumental act in 20 years to win in the Jazz/World/Blues category since Joe Zawinul won with Faces & Places. The band’s unusual configuration of 2 drummers, 2 bass players and 3 horns remains, as does the line up of Johannes Schleiermacher, Mario Rom and Astrid Wiesinger making up the wind section with Nikolaus Dolp and Herbert Pirker on drums and Lukas Kranzelbinder and Oliver Potratz on bass. ‘Lila’ sees Kranzelbinder fulfill a long-held ambition to work with Viennese producer Marco Kleebauer (Bilderbuch, Sharktank, Leyya). Like Kranzelbinder, he is a key figure in the Austrian music scene and although their musical paths have been very different the collaboration just clicked. On several tracks we hear Kranzelbinder’s now familiar multi-layered compositions supplemented by Kleebauer’s sound layers pushing the door wide open to a new musical chapter of Shake Stew, but not at the sacrifice of band’s trademark sound. Another exciting collaboration is that with spoken word artist Precious Nnebedum, who grew up between Nigeria and Austria and features on ‘Not Water But Rest’. Initially recorded with the whole band it was only when Kleebauer began work on it that the idea to include spoken word emerged. Nnebedum was so inspired by the music that she wrote the lyrics overnight on what has become a stand out track on the album.
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Shake Stew – (A)live! (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 41:56 minutes | 518 MB | Genre: Jazz
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After their highly acclaimed double album “Gris Gris” viennese groove-machine Shake Stew will release their first ever live-album (A)live! on September 18, 2020.
“We present this album at a most challenging point in time, when we are all feeling the loss of social interaction in many aspects of life.
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Shake Stew – Rise and Rise Again (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:00 minutes | 454 MB | Genre: Jazz
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SHAKE STEW is Austria‘s jazz band of the hour. After playing more than 25 gigs during the first months since premiering at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2016 and selling out their first record „The Golden Fang“ within half a year, the unique septet is conquering the music world with a hypnotic mixture of afrobeat and jazz grooves shaken up by the intense and mysterious soundscapes created with a combination of two drummers and two double bass players! With „Rise And Rise Again“ Shake Stew are releasing their highly anticipated second album in May 2018, which also features Shabaka Hutchings on 2 of the tracks. Everywhere they went so far, the press has been more than enthusiastic, often trying to create new terms and genre-labels to put their live experiences into words and this new release will only further establish their status as one of Europe’s most upcoming Jazzbands.
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Shake Stew – Gris Gris (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:34:06 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Jazz
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“This seemingly unbalanced band – two drummers, two bassists, three horns – founded by opera-writing polymath Lukas Kranzelbinder have forged a fierce reputation for sprawling sets that nod to the ’60s spiritual Jazz of Alice Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders undercut with Sons of Kemet’s interlocking rhythm fluidity. If those parallels are apparent amid the full force of I Can Feel The Heat Closing In and slow-burning, spectral progressions of So He Spoke, the 19-minute Grilling Crickets in a Straw Hut is different level, as guesting guitarist Tobias Hoffmann and flute-wielding resident Johannes Schleiermacher soar above Kranzelbinder’s boombastically grooving guembri.
Able to blind you into a trance and make you dance to your knees, Gris Gris twists, blisters and burns like a fevered dream.” (MOJO)
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Shake Stew – Heat (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:07 minutes | 749 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Heat is the fifth album since Shake Stew’s formation in 2016 and delivers probably the most diverse overall impression of their musical range to date. For the first time in the band’s history, there was a personnel change in the horn section at the beginning of 2021, where the Austrian alto saxophonist Astrid Wiesinger took over the position from Clemens Salesny. The addition of Wiesinger has given the band an injection of new energy and we can hear the electricity buzzing on each track.
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