We are inviting a guest for the first time: Berlin video artist Claudia Schmitz will be performing with us visual trigger points…
RELOADE#5 Tour Fall 2022
RELOADE#5 Tour Fall 2022
OTHER NEWS
Apr. 12th, 2024 – Guest video artist Claudia Schmitz
Feb. 20th, 2024 – Interview in “BRAVOO/WOOD”
WOOD magazin writes: The album “Structures & Beauty” by the Fuchsthone Orchestra is a milestone in the field of orchestral jazz…
FUCHSTHONE RELOADED#6 (2024)
Once again breaking new ground: the FUCHSTHONE Reloaded #6 programme is all about visualization, improvisation and new ensemble formats.
Nov 15th, 2024 Dortmund, Domicil 20h
Reloaded# 6. The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA presents its current programme of new compositions together with videoartist Claudia Schmitz.
Tickets and info
Nov 14th, 2024 Cologne, Stadtgarten
Reloaded #6. The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA presents its current programme of new compositions together with videoartist Claudia Schmitz. Tickets and …
Oct. 27th, 2024 Wuerzburg, Jazzfestival
Reloaded #6. The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA presents its current programme of new compositions as part of the “RELOADED” concert series. Tickets and …
CD-RELEASE TOUR „STRUCTURES & BEAUTY“ (2023)
2023 was all about the presentation of the FUCHSTHONE debut album “Structures & Beauty”. There were 8 cities in Germany and abroad on the tour schedule…
Aug 31st, 2024 Wuppertal, Immanuelskirche
IMMANUEL GOES BIGBAND 2024
Current programme Reloaded #6 + Guest video artist Claudia Schmitz.
May 30th, 2024 Cologne, Stadtgarten
Reloaded #6. The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA presents its current programme of new compositions as part of the “RELOADED” concert series. Tickets and …
Jan. 23rd, 2024 – RADIO 674 FM
At 4 pm: FUNKT-Sessionsguests today are Christina Fuchs, Caroline Thon, Eva Pöpplein talking with Dietmar Bonnen & Georg Dietzler
9/23 JazzThing
„With their debut album „Structures & Beauty“ (enja/edel), the Fuchsthone Orchestra is taking a creative inventory. Recorded in June 2022 at the Deutschlandfunk broadcasting hall in Cologne, the material was more than enough for a double CD, but not one note,...
09/23 NRZ
„The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA captivated the audience in the Kathrin-Türks-Halle/Dinslaken with excursions into extraordinary worlds of sound.Glaciers are melting, ice masses are breaking. It cracks, it crashes with drumbeats and hissing cymbals. The compact sound layers...
09/23 Süddeutsche Zeitung
„Experienced big band masterminds have joined forces with Christina Fuchs and Caroline Thon. ‚Structures & Beauty', the title of the highly acclaimed album recently released on the Enja & Yellowbird label, captures in a nutshell what distinguishes the...
09/23 KulturZeitschrift (Österreich)
„The richness of musical ideas, the versatile compositions and the outstanding skills of the players alone would make a performance of the performance of the FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA an Eldorado for adventurous music fans. Christina Fuchs and Caroline Thon combine their...
09/23 Zeitschrift f. Kultur & Gesellschaft (Austria)
„Magnificent cinema for the ears! Listening for the first time to the eight compositions … you will be flashed by this completely unconventional ride on a musical roller coaster: such fun with experimentation and strong contrasts. This variety of moods and sound...
08/23 JazzPodium
„System blasters! Is this (still) jazz or simply music that doesn't care about categories? Are we listening to notes that have the potential to become system breakers? Anyone who gets involved with the good ninety minutes of Fuchsthone Orchestra will not only...
08/23 Kulturtipp CH
„The eight-part concept album alternates from a well-balanced big band set to an avantgarde stirring sound cascade and has lyrics by Greta Thunberg pop up. A multi-layered auditory movie…“
06/23 JazzThing
„Big, so beautiful. Structures & Beauty is the assertion that beauty exists…“
06/23 Jazzpodium
„…Zappa would have had a blast with it, though Carla Bley's „Escalator over the Hill“ epic could also have been the inspiration. Philosophical thinking meets musical vision here…radically fresh and exciting!“
05/23 Bonner Generalanzeiger
„Spectacular concert by the Fuchsthone Orchestra from Cologne rocked the Pantheon…certainly one of the best of the 13th Bonn Jazz Festival…“
05/23 Jazzthetik
„The debut double album of the Fuchsthone Orchestra is a large-orchestral masterpiece…Structures&Beauty unites all that can make large orchestral jazz thrilling: free and heavy grooving passages, soloists who pour their whole heart into this music, and a political...
05/23 MELODIVA online Magazin
„Structures & Beauty" is a magnificent jazz CD with depth which reminds us that we are in control of our own destiny.”
04/23 FAZ
„The composers Caroline Thon and Christina Fuchs assembled a strong ensemble with the FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA, in which singer Fiippa Gojo shines on the microphone. The consistently strong soloists include such distinctive musicians as trumpeter John-Dennis Renken, alto...
19.10.2023 – SZ Concert tip: “Great experience! An Unterfahrt must-attend event”
The Süddeutsche Zeitung recommends the concert by the Fuchsthone Orchestra at the legendary Munich jazz club Unterfahrt as a must-see.
07.10.2023 SWR2 Jazz Global: “A band of experienced soloists”
Babette Michel presents world jazz on a large scale in her music program XXL:Worldjazz and talks about the Fuchsthone Orchestra
Okt. 02nd, 2023 – nrwjazz.net: “Tomorrow we’ll sound completely different!”
The Fuchsthone Orchestra is characterized by a constant work in progress” writes Uwe Bräutigam about the concert in Düsseldorf
Sep. 08th, 2023 – JazzPodium: “Fuchsthone stires up the big band concept”
“The Fuchsthone Orchestra really is shaking up the big band concept with its record debut…” Michael Stürm about Structures & Beauty in JazzPodium, this summer issue
Making-Of „Structures & Beauty“ / Video
The „Structures & Beauty“ making-of video with stunning insides and interviews from their recording session in DLF concerthall…
Double album “Structures & Beauty” / Preview
This music tells sound dramatic stories as great world theater, sometimes forcefully dynamic, sometimes lyrically subtle…
Debut CD “Structures & Beauty” will be released April 28
The preparations are in full swing…audio mixing, photo selection for the booklet, writing lyrics in approved collaboration with our designer Jumana Hamandouche…and our sound engineer Nico Raschke at the Hansahaus Studios Bonn.
What times are we living in right now?!
The climate crisis, endless trouble spots, Corona, avarice, stinginess and gas price brakes…
It’ s really difficult to keep a clear head. Therefore it is a gift to be able to process and comment on all this through music.
Caroline Thon about her new compositions:
“After finishing the relatively notated composition Inside Me with the desire to write simply beautiful music, harsher and unusual sounds pushed themselves clearly into the foreground.
The highly improvisational Outside of Me depicts what is happening around us right now: the breakdown of our present certainties caused by trouble spots, climate change and pandemics.
Therefore, in my eyes, we need even more an inner voice and safety that gives confidence and a positive outlook… this is the theme of Inside Me“.
Christina Fuchs comments:
“Sometimes you just want to get away, for example fly! That is what happened on a tandem paragliding flight this summer in Switzerland. And it was so exciting that I had to write a piece about it: Thermal Winds. Or looking into the clouds like in Echo Chambers Clouds and Bubbles. But everything is ambivalent, and so these titles definitely have very different levels of meaning.”
You can hear the results of these reflections from the inner echo chambers in the FUCHSTHONE RELOADED#5 series on this year’s fall tour. Stop by!
