{"title":"CDs \u0026 Vinyl - Full Catalog","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlattenfirma to go not only distributes music digitally but also CDs, vinyl, and cassettes. Here you can browse our complete catalog.\u003cstrong\u003e If you are interested in our physical distribution for your own sound carriers, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/plattenfirma-to-go.de\/physischer-vertrieb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eyou can find more information here.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"evelyn-kryger-live-at-jazzbaltica-2021-cd","title":"Live at JazzBaltica (CD) \/ Evelyn Kryger","description":"\u003cp\u003eCD in Digipak \/ Released 28.10.2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvelyn Kryger is a band from Cologne, Hanover, and Berlin. Saxophonist Cito Kaling, violinist Rebecca Czech, pianist and keyboardist Arne Dreske, bassist Jonas Holland-Moritz, and drummer Hannes Dunker generate a flexible dramaturgy from their diverse preferences and temperaments, which also holds many surprises for the band itself. In this context, poetry is inconceivable without energy, melancholy without cheerfulness, curiosity without a sure knowledge of tradition, and musical openness to the big picture without pedantry in detail.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe basic ideas for the songs come about in very different ways. Sometimes a member brings a fragment, a groove, or a melodic element, which is then played with together according to open rules. Often, there are three or more separate ideas that are then combined. Only in longer processes, tested through playing, do complete pieces emerge. Not infrequently, during this metamorphosis, the song moves so far away from the original idea that it ends up becoming a completely different piece than initially intended. It is precisely this open-mindedness regarding the musical result that also characterizes the lifelike quality of Evelyn Kryger's music.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe concert at JazzBaltica was hardly comparable to other playing situations because the band – due to the lockdown – had not performed in front of an audience for an entire year. The feeling of fervent liberation is palpable in every single moment. There are musical personalities on stage whose life's purpose is to play on stage in front of people, but who had been unable to do so for far too long. The band is completely present within itself, but also fully there for the audience. On the CD, this conveys the feeling that the music is exclusively intended for the two ears that are currently listening to it.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEvelyn Kryger has long created its own genre and celebrates music that is as accessible as it is boundless. \"Live At JazzBaltica 2021\" is a testament to a sound aesthetic that not only allows associations to flow freely but actively encourages every listener to find the link to their own life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hey!blau GmbH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44725814493448,"sku":"MB-348823","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/1641\/3151\/files\/0029769581_10.jpg?v=1704809470"},{"product_id":"vinyl-billy-wolke-2016","title":"Billy Wolke (Vinyl) \/ Evelyn Kryger","description":"12\" Vinyl \/ Released 14.10.2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll songs written by Evelyn Kryger\u003cbr\u003e1-3 recorded live at udk-studio berlin, december 2015\u003cbr\u003e4 recorded live at beats unter bäumen 2015\u003cbr\u003eRecording\/Mix: Wanja Hüffell\u003cbr\u003eMastering: HP-Mastering Hamburg\u003cbr\u003eartwork: jonas holland-moritz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eadditional violin on 2 \u0026amp; 3: Lukas Bergmann\u003cbr\u003eadditional vocals on 4: Jake Olson\u003cbr\u003elyrics on 4: Jake Olson","brand":"Hey!blau GmbH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44725836316936,"sku":null,"price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/1641\/3151\/files\/EK_Billy_V.jpg?v=1704815073"},{"product_id":"cd-killing-time-2022","title":"Killing Time (CD) \/ Jenny Thiele","description":"\"Killing time\" is my second solo album, recorded mainly in my living room in Cologne, Germany. 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This is not meant to sound belittling or even disparaging in any way. Quite the contrary: Because good music can indeed be background music, says the 33-year-old composer, producer, and guitarist. It can sound so moving and rhythmical as if you saw Ché speeding through Chile on his motorbike. Another time you are floating through space with Major Tom on spherical soundscapes. The influences and the sounds range from Ambience to Easy Listening to \u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_1\"\u003eChillout, from\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_1\"\u003e Flamenco to Jazz to Trip Hop. Handmade sounds and self-made instruments meet synthesizers and sound samples like crackling, noise, rustling, and ringing. And every time the crystal clear solo concert guitar puts itself on top of the lovingly composed instrumentals. 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Usually, anyway. After all, every child knows that. Far less popular than \"more\" is the realization that \"more\" can also be more. The quartet Evelyn Kryger from Hanover, Cologne, and Hildesheim impressively demonstrates on their new album \"III\" that you can put everything you have into a project and end up getting even more out of it than you expected. And that's a good thing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut first things first. After their live album \"Live At JazzBaltica 2021,\" saxophonist Christoph \"Cito\" Kaling, keyboardist Arne Dreske, bassist Jonas Holland-Moritz, and drummer Hannes Dunker had to cope with the departure of violinist Rebecca Czech. Should they now look for a new violinist after the initial painful loss to fill the void appropriately? Or would perhaps another instrument set a new accent? The four convinced artists chose a different path. They rethought their entire band concept and consistently started over.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"III\" is a radical new beginning without abandoning the core competencies acquired along the way. Four individualists who distil a logical flow of events from the contrasts of their personal experiences, preferences, and working methods, which ultimately transcends any definition and always leads to different goals than initially aimed for. Without having planned it this way, Evelyn Kryger has created a monumental overall work, an epic sound film that bears the hallmarks of a concept album. The dramaturgy, sequence, and sound direction only emerged during the immediate work on the album.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly the casting was carried out according to precisely defined criteria before the start of production, and this is the decisive difference from all previous albums by the band. This time, they did not rely on a fixed line-up that would be heard on the entire album and then go on tour, but surrounded themselves with a variable host of guests who provided individual timbres and nuances, moments of tension or changes of direction in the different songs. Guitarist Omar Gudjonsson, well known from the Icelandic post-rock band ADHD, had long been envisioned as a guest by the guys from Evelyn Kryger. Brazilian rapper Laíz sets unusual vocal accents, combining the flow and urgency of hip-hop with the power and force of Latin American rhythms. Trumpeter Tom Trabandt and saxophonist Richard Häckel, like Evelyn Kryger, come from the jazz scene in Hanover. Venezuelan percussionist Nené Vásquez contributes to the rhythmic accentuation. Last but not least, the familiar sound of the violin should not be missing from Evelyn Kryger's overall picture. In the American Roland Satterwhite, who plays in the Berlin jazz-rock band Tolyqyn, among others, they found the right voice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany names, but here it's not about quantity, but about precision. Because - and this is Evelyn Kryger's great achievement - none of these contributions sounds like a gimmick or stands out particularly from the album's sound. Each fits into the logical flow of the overall concept as if it had always been part of the band. A higher degree of integration is hardly conceivable, as if the band were the valley and the guests the river flowing through the valley. Evelyn Kryger consciously works with contrasts that are always brought together to form a unity. None of the songs in this context can be imagined even a fraction differently than it is presented here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe stylistic diversity of the CD is as great as the list of performers. The spectrum ranges from jazz and prog rock, through soundtrack-like passages, pop influences, Latin grooves, folkloric colourings to the precision and density of classical music and the detached openness of jam rock. There are no boundaries between these moments. In every song, a new cornucopia of wonderful melodies pours out. Similar to the best moments of Return To Forever, the Pat Metheny Group, Nils Petter Molvaer, or ADHD, all these influences and backgrounds merge into a harmonious whole that no longer requires categorization. Because one thing is clear from the first note and continues to the last measure: This is always and exclusively a statement by Evelyn Kryger. The band benefits from a special feature that saxophonist Cito Kaling already formulated on the occasion of the last album \"Live At JazzBaltica 2021\": \"We are a band of individualists who nevertheless have a very homogeneous band sound. We all bring our instruments from jazz, without really functioning like a jazz band. Our characters and personal playing styles interweave within the band to form a common sound.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFar removed from any stylistic-musical definition, \"III\" acts like a film. Voices become characters, songs become scenes of a plot with an open ending, sounds become backdrops, grooves become guardrails of storylines. One sits spellbound in an imaginary cinema seat and follows the narrative imagery that Evelyn Kryger unleashes before the seeing ear. Every splash of colour, every beat, every note, and every sung word makes sense in this world of overflowing impressions. \"III\" is grand, but it has to be exactly that grand to achieve this overwhelming effect. The cover, designed by Hanoverian artist Anna Abramovich, also contributes to the album's final audiovisual effect; as a pentagon, it is a work of art in itself, independent of the music.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaution with superlatives, but Evelyn Kryger's fourth album, titled \"III,\" is one of the most complete musical treasures of recent years. This is not simply a studio production, but in the very best sense a performance. Without wanting to engage in further name-dropping here, it doesn't need to shy away from comparison with the great concept albums of rock and jazz history. If we want to change the cultural playing field here, then Evelyn Kryger has qualified for the Champions League with \"III.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eText: Wolf Kampmann\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hey!blau GmbH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45063261192456,"sku":"MB-351413","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0623\/1641\/3151\/files\/EK_III_Hangpak_01.jpg?v=1704810022"},{"product_id":"cd-evelyn-kryger-2013","title":"Evelyn Kryger - Evelyn Kryger (CD)","description":"CD in digipack \/ Released 05.07.2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The five Hanoverians from Evelyn Kryger have recorded an album that intoxicates and not only testifies to exquisite musicality and a deep understanding of the intricate style variations from east to south, but above all showcases curiosity and fun with the material. 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