AMOK AMOR, by Peter Evans, Christian Lillinger, Petter Eldh, Wanja Slavin

AMOK AMOR

by Peter Evans, Christian Lillinger, Petter Eldh, Wanja Slavin

supported by

Abram Mamet I love this album so much. I am a huge fan of Petter Eldh's, and this showcases his pure, driving tone very well. The compositions are powerful. Favorite track: Amor.

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

€9 EUR or more
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Comes in a lovely gatefold card case with an inlay booklet

Includes unlimited streaming of AMOK AMOR via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

ships out within 5 days

edition of 300

Purchasable with gift card

€17 EUR or more
Full Digital Discography

51

releases

Get all 51 Boomslang Records releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of OCTOPETALA, TEUFLIN/SHE-DEVIL, Tide, Zen World Cables, FALL, CHATTERING TEETH, NO SHINING, In its own pace, and 43 more. , and , .

Purchasable with gift card

€390.24 EUR or more (20% OFF)

1.	Manipulieren II 03:46	info	buy track
2.	Amor 01:27	info
3.	Sons of Engels - Marx 05:41	info
4.	The Resistance 04:54	info
5.	Rowk 05:39	info
6.	Als Sozialist geboren 03:37	info
7.	Mani 3 - Achse des Guten 07:20	info
8.	Amok 04:01	info

about

The provocative band name „Amok Amor“, sounds truly promising, considering the members of this German- American- Swedish formation can certainly not be viewed as a tender loving group. They ride a merciless attack and leave the listener after thirty-six eventful minutes totally exhausted and yet extremely happy behind.
Three members of the quartet are well experienced as an already existing trio. They live in Berlin and have for many years been supporting the city’s jazz life in numerous constellations and with decisive impulses. Wanja Slavin (33) the alto saxophone player and ECHO Jazz Award winner, Swedish bass player Petter Eldh (since 2009 active in Berlin) plus Germany’s most agile and unpredictable drummer, Christian Lillinger (31) recorded with “Starlight” an already rousing album, released under the Suisse label Unit Records. Ulrich Steinmetzger’s evaluation of this production in the magazine „Jazz Thing: „This CD is a perfect example for the vitality of a never ending young metropolitan jazz scene, constantly moving forward while escaping the experimental hermetic towards integrating various elements deriving from the participant’s musical and other social essences and bringing all of this together in a relaxed and well considered combination“.
This trio, praised by the above mentioned hymn has now engaged in a mutual operation with an excellent and versatile trumpet player, the American Peter Evans (34) who is among other famous for being a long lasting member of the group „Mostly Other People Do The Killing“ (he has meanwhile left the group).
In a quartet, the two Germans, the Swede and the man from the United States developed an enormous spin on their album „Amok Amor“, a contagious and outraging energy and a breathtaking power. Somehow they have internalized the spirit of the wild sixties and yet their music is incorporated in the here and now. It is music drawn out of common categories. Rhythm is prolonged here and accelerated plus artistically maneuvered and unconventionally accentuated until the bar lines tremble. Barely signalized melody shreds are added while wild and fast themes often tightly embrace the brass players.
Incomparable and ludicrous tempi are added by Petter Eldh, Christian Lillinger, Wanja Slavin and Peter Evans in distinct compact pieces with such beautiful titles like „Manipulating II“, „Sons of Angels“, Born As A Socialist“ or „Axis Of The Good“ and which are without any garrulousness despite the immense information tightness.
This over active and yet controlled amok run is not killing – it is reviving! The „Amok Amor” – listeners will moreover question where these four members drew their strength, their motivation, their naturalness, their chuzpe and their incentive.

credits

released March 16, 2021

AMOK AMOR are:
Petter Eldh, bass
Christian Lillinger, drums
Wanja Slavin, sax
Peter Evans, trumpet

recorded by Oli Rath and Alfred Vogel August 2015
mixed and mastered by Klaus Scheuermann, Berlin

release nov 6th 2015

Boomslang Records www.traps.at
distributed by Galileo Music GmbH
digital on iTunes, Amazon etc.

license

about

Boomslang Records Bezau, Austria

"a wild and wooly musical plunge into the unusual"
(NYC Jazz Record Magazin 2023)

Boomslang Records was founded by Alfred Vogel, drummer and festival promoter (Bezau Beatz). You will find mainly creative music here, from free improvised to complex contemporary jazz music, groovy stuff to singer/songwriters. It is all about the spirit and attitude, not genres ... ... more

Recommendations

contact / help

Contact Boomslang Records

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Boomslang Records recommends:

Being & Becoming
by Peter Evans

this is some of the hottest stuff I heard recently. no compromises at all. music for your brain and heart. Boomslang Records
go to album
D L W „GRAMMAR II“
by DELL LILLINGER WESTERGAARD

Christian Lillinger is a musician/drummer/composer who is pushing todays music forward with no boundaries at all. Some of the finest improvisers meet here to share his vision. Boomslang Records
go to album
Lotta Sea Lice
by courtney barnett and kurt vile

hang loose with this great singer/songwriter couple. love to listen to this while driving a car. a little rock´n´roll twist - never harm Boomslang Records
go to album