Firomanum live at Jazzfest Berlin 2008

Foto © Fritz Meffert, Collage Patrick Hespeler

Niels Klein - Tenor Saxophone, Clarinets
Arne Jansen - Guitar
Eva Kruse - Bass
Nils Tegen - Drums

recorded live at A-Trane, Berlin, November 7, 2008

1. Ranterkant jagt (Tegen)
2. March (Jansen)
3. The mean Spider of Tandonrine (Kruse)
4. CPO (Klein)
5. Progression (Tegen)
6. Firomatie (Tegen)
7. New/old Tenderly (Tegen)

A band without a leader? Is that actually survivable in this fast moving age? Even more when all band members already participate in a lot of successful projects?
Half of the quartet Firomanum lives in Cologne, the other half in Berlin. Since their formation in 2000, the four work on a democratic basis: Everyone writes for everyone, all play for all, together they’re Firomanum. This distribution of power, falls in place to a balanced ensemble. In every member are those sparks that the name of the band promises. And they sparkle auspiciously. After their succesful debut album „Firomanum“ in 2003 (Schoener Hoeren) they now sovereignly come up with their second album "SCOPE", released on Traumton: