Jul Fuel

Dedicated to the release of the trio’s second album Fucking Ballads my concert with Baby Sommer and Barry Guy at the Festival in St. Johann in 2024 luckily proofs Els Vandeweyer, one of the members of the younger female empowered EUPHORIUM_freakestra constellations, to be an attentive listener. Pointing out, my playing has reminded her of the style of the late Fred van Hove, she didn’t know me once sitting at the Total Music Meeting 2004 in the first row deeply impressed by the greatness of this grandmaster’s buttery rolling performance.
Alongside the following years of my intense musicological study of the develoment of contemporary improvised music focussing the dynamization of the linear-metrical structure I got practically very close to the strategies that Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky and Christian Lillinger realized in that respect on the levels of tone and rhythm (listen to White Power Blues, Short Night!). In 2013 I took advantage of the opportunity to vary my bassless wind trio instrumentally. Next to the glissando work of the reed grandmaster the trumpet player of the younger generation after next arriving uses methodically the construction of his special slide trumpet.
Working with the various personally varied bassless saxophone trios featuring Petrowsky, Peter Brötzmann, Akira Sakata, John Dikeman and Virginia Genta (2006-21) I came up with the idea of sequencing the music while structuring the ensemble’s configurational potential. Starting with the trio we got used to widen it to a quintet with two basses and occasionally splitting up to present a bass duet on ist own. Switching to lead the bassless trumpet trio I then decided to start soloing on the grand piano, let follow a piano drums-duo, present a trio piece and close with a trumpet solo. In the run of my efforts to enhance my solo piano work the opening piece of Dirn Bridge indeed might have caught an hovish gesture for the first time.
Eight years later my design of an evening with my windless piano trio comes along with another invitation of Axel Dörner. Eight albums released on EUPHORIUM Records so far have presented him once, 2009, within a marvellous duet with Wadada Leo Smith (Free Acoustic Supergroup) and twice, 2013 and 2015, with a work as an unaccompanied soloist (London Leipzig Luzern, Berlin). To complete the line-up for the two groups I for the first time have taken Julian Sartorius into account. The second bassless trumpet trio is going to happen personally varied. Once set up this instrumental constellation constructively as Dirn Bridge, now Jul Fuel is gonna make us listen to the sound driven by the new propellant.