Tempelektrisch live at Jazzclub Unterfahrt 2009

Photo ©by Ralph Horbascheck

Axel Schlosser (Trumpet/Flügelhorn)
Christian Weidner (Alto Saxophone)
Nils Wogram (Trombone)
Frank Möbus (Guitar)
Wolfgang Zwiauer (Bass)
Rainer Tempel (Fender Rhodes, Synthesizer)
Jim Black (Drums)

recorded live at Jazzclub Unterfahrt, Munich/ Germany, December 2009

1. "Lucy goes waltzing" (Rainer Tempel)
2. "The Striker" (Rainer Tempel)
3. "Selecâo" (Rainer Tempel)
4. "Trains" (Rainer Tempel)
5. "Pink" (Rainer Tempel)
6. "Elder Statesmen" (Rainer Tempel)

"I bought my first electric keyboard in 1986 and I still have it. Although it was one of the cheapest on the market I had to spend all the money I had on it. I just needed something that was loud enough to be heard in the rock band I was in at the time.
I took classical piano lessons as a kid and teenager and later studied jazz piano, but I also was influenced by the jazz rock music that was around me.
I prefer analogue instruments which are as old as myself. Their sounds, in the ears of today, hardly resemble any natural instrument but have become instruments in themselves. The Rhodes and The Wurlitzer Piano, as well as the Hohner Clavinet, cannot be played the same way a piano is played. In some situations, the Rhodes blends much better with wind instruments than the piano does.
So this album is called tempelektrisch, even though there are more natural instruments in the band than electric ones." (Rainer Tempel about tempelektrisch)