Mo' Blow

For Those About To Funk - CD

  • Format: CD
  • Cat No.: ACT 9658-2
  • Barcode: 614427965820
  • German Release: 29/04/2011
  • Genre: Funky Jazz, Young German Jazz

Als „eine der heißesten Club Bands“ (Berliner Zeitung) und Gewinner des Publikums- und Jurypreises beim Berliner Jazz & Blues Award machen „Mo’ Blow“ dem Jazz Beine.

No longer available – out of print



Germany is not exactly known as the home of soul and funk, but after you’ve heard Mo’Blow from Berlin you will think differently about the country where the ‘1’ and the ‘3’ are becoming more and more prominent. The quartet, which the ‘Berliner Zeitung’ described as one of the hottest club bands, has the groove in their blood. With For those about to Funk, their debut album on ACT, Mo’ Blow ticks all the boxes for the label’s Young German Jazz series: refreshingly new, exciting and unconventional, with that certain something and of an international calibre.It was a stay abroad that gave birth to the band – Mo’ Blow’s mastermind and saxophonist Felix F. Falk studied in Liverpool in 2002. Not only did he get to know the spirit of the ‘Fab Four’ but was also infected by funk music, and while there he founded the original line-up of a band...

line up

Felix F. Falk / saxes, didgeridoo, perc
Matti Klein / rhodes
Tobias Fleischer / bass
André Seidel / drums

Guests:
Nils Landgren / trombone (on 1, 3, 6)
Torsten Goods / guitar (on 4, 9)
Magnum Coltrane Price / vocals (on 3)
Magnus Lindgren / tenor sax, flute (on 3, 8)


Recording Information

Produced by Nils Landgren

Recorded by Marco Birkner at P1 Studio Berlin, edited by Stuart McLean at SMS Studio Berlin, mixed and mastered by Klaus Scheuermann. Additional Production by Tobias Fleischer.