(A)live! Shake Stew

• 1 Dancing in the Cage of a Soul (Live at North Sea Jazz Festival 2019) 06:05
• 2 Play Mass (Live at Porgy & Bess 2017) 07:44
• 3 Shake the Dust (Live at Porgy & Bess 2017) 03:38
• 4 How We See Things (Live at Jazzclub Unterfahrt 2018) 09:52
• 5 I Can Feel the Heat Closing In (Live at Porgy & Bess 2019) 14:34
• Total Runtime 41:53

Info for (A)live!

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.

We are deeply convinced that everything we create and play is meant to exist in relation with the presence of other people, who influence the direction the music takes. The spirit behind this album is to emphasize the existential need for our music to be performed live, and the fact that it can only live and thrive as a collective phenomenon in an organic exchange with the audience. The emotions and sounds created in these moments are never private. Each and every person in the audience contributes to the process, in a constant interaction with the musicians. Therefore, we cannot simply execute our music on stage; we strive, with the help of everyone present, to bring it to life. Time and time again. This is why we play."

Lukas Kranzelbinder, Double Bass, E-Bass
Mario Rom, Trumpet
Clemens Salesny, Alto Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone
Johannes Schleiermacher, Tenor Saxophone, Baritone Saxophone, Korg MS20
Oliver Potratz, Double Bass, E-Bass
Mathias Koch, Drums
Niki Dolp, Drums
Special guests:
Martin Eberle, Trumpet (Dancing in the Cage of a Soul)
Shabaka Hutchings, Tenor Saxophone (Play Mass, In the Castle of my Skin)
Tobias Hoffmann, Guitar (How We See Things)
Manuel Mayr, Double Bass, E-Bass (Play Mass, Shake the Dust)

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 debut 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 3 horns, two drummers and two bass players! Shake Stew will release their highly anticipated new album „Rise And Rise Again“ in early 2018 (with Shabaka Hutchings as a guest on 2 tracks) and kick off an international touring marathon that will carry this hard-workin groove-machin all around the globe. 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. So one thing’s for sure: At some point SHAKE STEW will let loose. And if that happens you’d better be around.

This album contains no booklet.