Jean-Paul Bourelly: “We are relevant again”.
With a name like his, you’d expect Jean-Paul Bourelly to be French, or at least speak it. But no, the guitarist is American: he was born in 1960 in Chicago, but his father was Haitian, hence his surname.
Interview – Head of “Livres du Soir”
By Jean-Claude Vantroyen
HIPS PROJECT Sound and Motion In the Other-Sphere directed by Jean-Paul Bourelly & Gea Russell
LIVE @LIKE A JAZZ MACHINE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL DUDELANGE 2021
BROADCAST 10 June 2021, 22:00 (CEST) >>>>>
JAZZBOX RADIO INTERNATIONAL
Presentation by Ramon Kirsch
Jean-Paul Bourelly (guitar, vocals)
Gea Russell (DJ)
Regis Molina (baritone sax, congas)
Llorenç Barcelo Vives (hammond organ, moog)
Dani Domínguez (drums, electronics)
Produced with the support of the City of Dudelange and the Centre Culturel opderschmelz
Music from another universe: Jean-Paul Bourelly breaks all conventions
Musik aus einem anderen Universum: Jean-Paul Bourelly sprengt alle Konventionen
Jean-Paul Bourelly & Kiss The Sky @Jazzfest Bonn 2019. Review by Dylan Cem Akalin
Miles Electric Band in South America, 1&3 October ’18
Miles Electric Band in South America…coming soon!
Nicholas Payton – trumpet / Darryl Jones – bass / Vince Wilburn Jr – drums / Robert Irving III – keyboards / Antoine Roney – sax / Jean-Paul Bourelly – guitar / Munyugo Jackson – percussions / Debasish Chaudhury – tabla / DJ Hapa – turntables
October 1 – Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
October 3 – Teatro Oriente (Santiago, Chile)
Arte Concert: Jean-Paul Bourelly and Kiss The Sky @WDR 3 Jazzfest 2018, ENJOY THE SHOW!
Watch and Listen Online here >>>
Jean-Paul Bourelly @WDR 3 Jazz & World, 26.01.2018
Jean-Paul Bourelly @WDR 3 Jazz and World, 26 January, 22:00 – 00:00…for the upcoming WDR 3 Jazzfestival 2018. Tune in!
Check here>>>
Black Top feat. Jean-Paul Bourelly @BBC Radio 3
Listen to the Black Top feat. Jean-Paul Bourelly @BBC Radio 3, recorded @Midland Arts Centre in Birmingham here >>>
London Jazz Festival Review
Basquiat and Jazz featuring Black Top and guests
(LSO St Luke’s, 10 November, EFG LJF 2017. Review by Dan Bergsagel)
read here>>>
DOCUMENTA 14, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Special live performance with Jean-Paul Bourelly, unplugged
look out for the full session in JPGotMangos studio archive soon…
Bourelly’s Soundtrack of the Film Almas Rainbow released
Arnaé – vocals on “Where is Love”/
John Stubblefield – tenor and soprano sax/
Meshell Ndegeocello – bass/
Fred Hopkins – acoustic bass/
Carl Bourelly – keyboards and arrangement/
Etaal Shure – piano/
Rodney Holmes – drums/
Jean-Paul Bourelly – guitar/
Kehinde O’huru – djembe and percussion/
Sean “Le Breeze” Richards – drum programming/
Critics choice for upcoming Era Jazzu Festival
Critics choice…European jazz magazine Jazz Forum picks Bourelly and his organic trio as a must see at the upcoming Era Jazzu Festival.
04.10.2015 Do not miss!
Guest for the hour. Jean-Paul Bourelly with Katea Stitt, Jazz and Justice, Beyond Borders Edition on WPFW 89.3FM 4pm-5pm EST / 10pm – 11pm CET
Live stream
Hangout with Jean-Paul Bourelly on Musicians Corner
Meet JP in person on Musicians’ Corner October 4th @4PM EST, @9PM BST, @10PM CET. Take this opportunity to ask your own questions and chat with him.
Recording R Time at the Power Station in Connecticut
Check JPGotMangos page for a sneak peek.
JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY & VERNON REID
Nu Grid Featuring Jean-Paul Bourelly & Vernon Reid
June 25 @ 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm
I’m going to do a Spontaneous Conduction of themes from the Hungarian composer.
Here is what they say:
One evening at Collegium Hungaricum Berlin with two different concerts, but with one thing in common: both are dedicated to György Kurtág for his 90th birthday.
Also
Péter Kiss & Péter Szűcs
Classical music concert on piano and clarinet
Kurtág and Bach compositions
Jean-Paul Bourelly & The Spontaneous Arkestra
After a one week long Conduction workshops held and led by Jean-Paul Bourelly, the seven member Spontaneous Arkestra will reflect on Kurtág “shapes”
The event will be accompanied with VJ performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYKMFTmMb7c&feature=youtu.be
Kiss the Sky in Morrocco Jan. 20,21 and 22.
From Duisberg “Kiss the Sky” show
Kiss The Sky – Münster 21.11.15 Hot Jazz Club, Duisburg 23.11.15
KTS @ Hot Jazz Club, Münster, DE. 21.11.15
http://gvents.de/munster-jean-paul-bourellys-kiss…/500281Mit seinem aktuellen Projekt “Kiss The Sky” verwendet er die Musik seines grossen Meisters Jimi Hendrix als Abschussrampe.
KTS @ Steinbruch -Duisburg 23.11.15
http://www.konzertkasse.de/product/jean-paul-bourellys-kiss-the-sky-tickets-duisburg.html
http://www.steinbruch-duisburg.de/index.php?id=787
IL & Wah Edchloraque 6.11.15 Berlin
Bourelly Bowie Russel Tacuma – Bari Italy 24.10.15
We are heading into a new sound and awareness cycle, throughout the galaxy.
BB&T “New Language” offers an alternative in sonic adventurism, improvisation with groove.
“New Language”;
the development of a system of communication through voice, sounds and gestures.
A none exclusive acoustic, electric, futuristic blend of musical impulses and ideals.
Tune into New Language “Another Way In Another Way Out”
“Nu Grid” Haynes Reid Logic Bourelly pixs
Sound check at St Anna Aressi Sardinia Italy Sept.1. Had a great time with the guys. Graham Haynes coronet., Vernon Reid gt. Logic turntables and myself on gt. as we go under the name Nu Grid. I heard some new sonic possibilities. It just gets better. Its been way too long guys! Hope to have some sound to post soon…. JPBPhotos by Ziga Koritnik
NU GRID Reid Bourelly Haynes Logic Sept.1 2015 Sardinia
Its a special Exclusive Project for our friends at Sant’Anna Arresi , Sardinia who are honoring the late great Butch Morris with this years festival.
Press announcement: Nu Grid Concert – September 1,2015
Graham Haynes, Coronet and Electronics
Jean-Paul Bourelly – Guitar ,Vocals and Electronics
Vernon Reid – Guitar Electronics
DJ Logic – Turntables
http://santannarresijazz.it/2015/nugrid.php
This years festival at Sant’Anna Arresi will experience the first concert of Nu Grid. Jean-Paul Bourelly and Graham Haynes are the project initiators and Vernon Reed and DJ logic completing this auspicious quartet.
Jean-Paul Bourelly describes Nu Grid as the convergence point of four accomplished musicians. who have always expressed the progressive side of music, using the jazz impulse, free form funk, beat music and Afro-phonics to lead us into new meaningful musical spaces.
Experimental thinker and coronetist Graham Haynes conducts the Bitches Brew Revisited project and has eight recordings including “Transition” which was the last time these musicians appeared on the same record.
Guitarist, Vernon Reid is the founder of Grammy award winning rock group Living Colour as well as collaborator with Jamaladeen Tacuma in the group “Free Form Funky Freqs”.
Glob trotting funky beat master DJ Logic started out with the group Eye & I has amassed an astonishing array of collaborations with musicians from Sierra Leon Refugee Allstars to Bill Laswell.
Innovative blues explorer Jean-Paul Bourelly sometimes appearing as” Bourellywah” has 16 recordings, creating from his Berlin production house JPgotMangos, including his latest Cameroonian excursion, 3 Kings ”Famous Guys”.
The Nu Grid project represents a fresh sonic jazz adventure by merging technologies with the tested skills of powerful improvisers. Nu Grid is steeped in African America’s impulse to re-invent, as well as in these musicians association reflected over time.
It is a meeting point along the digital space ways in the sometimes contentious yet exciting arena where the instrumentalist’s skill duels it out with todays digital tools, guided by four master creators.
This is who makes up “New Grid” as they converge on St’ Anna Arresi, Sardinia to mix IT up .
DJD
Bourelly Waka (trio) @Badenscher – Hof June 26th, Berlin
Machine Gun (Stop don’t shoot!)
Jean-Paul Bourelly (g/voc)
Darryl Taylor (b)
Kenny Martin (dr)
Bourelly gig Badenscher Hof 13.03.15, Berlin
Polyphonic Townhall Meeting, Ballhaus Naunyn, Berlin 12.21.14
Media Rewind. De-Colonize the Mind
Media rewind. De-Colonize the mindKuratiert von JeanPaul Bourelly
Mit: Jean-Paul Bourelly, Marlon Browden, DJ Infinit Livez Filly Sakko, Peggy Piesche, Volkan Terror, Blues Waka Moderation: Maisha Eggers
We are Tomorrow – Visionen und Erinnerung anlässlich der Berliner Konferenz von 1884 ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe von Kultursprünge im Ballhaus Naunynstraße gemeinnützige GmbH. Gefördert mit Mitteln der Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin.
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ENGLISH
The Spontaneous Town Meeting is an interdisciplinary jam session in the format of a talk show taking place every month in the context of the series WE ARE TOMORROW – Visions and Retrospection on Occasion of the 1884 Berlin Conference. Jazz musician JeanPaul Bourelly invites musicians and writers, DJs, historians and actors to an afro-futuristic meeting in order to open up the gates of a Black collective knowledge archive. In an interaction between language and music, guests and audience, emotion and didactics, current and historic discourses are negotiated so as to emphasise new aspects and develop perspectives which so far seemed limited by the framework of their negotiation. As a consequence, discussions on the situation of refugees living in Berlin, the destruction of family relationships owing to the continuity of colonial conditions, the power dynamics between Old Europe and New Africa obtain an unknown variety of fresh perspectives and possible interpretations.
Citizen X (Bourelly and Bey) 19.08 English Theater, Berlin
Concert – Citizen X (Bourelly and Bey)
English Theatre Berlin
Fidicinstraße 40, 10965 Berlin
This newly formed duo appeals to the cinematic sense of music and the freedom to navigate beyond category. Inspired by the revolutionary 1960´s of Detroit, Chicago and Los Angeles, marinated over time, Citizen X finds a new voice in the theatre of today´s globalized one-world politics. The duets move through a landscape filled with a sense of spirituality, atmospheric sound bytes punctuated by wide ranging guitar sounds and observant commentary on today’s tumultuous world. Cadillac Eldorados, Sun Ra´s Arkestra and names like Amiri Baraka, Fred Hampton and Huey P. Newton come to mind in a blend of black-a-delic consciousness, bringing a sense of proximity to both danger, beauty and love.
Electronic, Afro Futuristic
Shepp, Bourelly Concert !
Chantre du free jazz que l’on classe parmi les monuments, Archie Shepp a collaboré avec les plus grands : de John Coltrane à Frank Zappa, en passant par l’initiateur du free jazz, Cecil Taylor. Doté d’une virtuosité intemporelle, Archie Shepp est un artiste aux multiples casquettes : saxophoniste, chanteur, poète engagé, pianiste et également dramaturge. À l’occasion du festival Jazz à Porquerolles, il s’entoure de Jean-Paul Bourelly à la guitare, Reggie Washington à la basse, Tom McClung au piano et Hamid Drake à la batterie : tout un rassemblement pour vivre un concert grandiose à la pointe du jazz.
Swedish Article “I am young as hell”
Brotherzone live at Son Hiver (Paris)
http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/live/musique/soul-funk/sons-dhiver-2014-brotherzone-147953
The video of the concert is back up.
Enjoy.
JPB
3 KINGS “Famous Guys” OUT NOW!
http://bourelly.bandcamp.com/album/3-kings-famous-guys
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/3kings12
Bourelly in Chicago Saturday April 19th
Screening the Education of Auma Obama with a Q&A with the director Branwen Okpako.
I am going to perform a creative improvisation with a few Chicago friends like Chicago afro cuban percussionist Greg Carmouche and AACM saxophonist and composer Ed Wilkerson before and after the screening at Chicago Film Makers.
http://chicagofilmmakers.org/cf/genre
Film/Music New Narrative.
Musicians on Music, Article, JP Bourelly
Brotherzone Paris Concert
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Jamaaladeen Tacuma BROTHERZONE (USA)
feat. Jean-Paul Bourelly
Wadud Ahmad – voice, spoken word poetry
Jean-Paul Bourelly – guitar
Jamaaladeen Tacuma – bass
Daryl Burgee – drums
Here is the Paris Concert from the Philidelphia based group led by bass icon Jamaaladeen Tacuma.
They usually keep the video up for a month so check it out.
Click on the link and video loads at the top of page. Enjoy.
Sons d’hiver 2014 : Brotherzone“>
Sons d’hiver 2014 : Brotherzone
TOUR DATES FEB.11TH-15TH 2014
BROTHERZONE | Villach, Kulturforum (A)
BROTHERZONE | Wien, Porgy & Bess (A)
BROTHERZONE | Öblarn, Kunst & Kulturhaus (A)
BROTHERZONE | Salzburg, Jazzit (A)
BROTHERZONE | Pair, Sonhiver (Fr)
Fluch der Medea premier screened to a full house.
The premier of the film was well received by a packed Arsenal Kino 1 audience.
Producer, Jean-Paul Bourelly, Director Branwen Okpako (on Skype feed) cast SHERI HAGEN and Thelma Buabeng discuss the film after the screening.
JPgotMangos Presents – Fluch der Medea (Curse of Medea)
Heres my latest film production: Berlinale World Premier
Fluch der Medea, February 07,2014 16:30 Arsenal Kino
Berlinale Film Festival
Berlin Germany
additional screenings below
Jean-Paul Bourelly on Tour “Kiss the Sky” Jan. 15th – 25th
Spontaneous Youth Arkestra’s Premiere (performance)
Spontaneous Youth Arkestra’s Premiere
Die besonders interessierten und talentierten postmigrantischen jungen MusikerInnen im ARKESTRA beschäftigen sich mit den experimentellen Ausdrucksformen von Musik. Bourelly verwendet dabei die Methode CONDUCTION (von Butch Morris), die für das spontane Komponieren mit großen Ensembles entwickelt wurde. Ihre Soundkompositionen bringen sie als spontanes Happening auf die Bühne des Ballhaus Naunynstraße.
Jean-Paul Bourelly wurde in Chicago geboren und begann mit 13 Jahren Gitarre zu spielen. Er brachte verschiedene eigene Alben heraus, die seinen Sound international erfolgreich machten. Er gründete das Backroom Project im Haus der Kulturen der Welt (1999-2004), war musikalischer Kurator für das Projekt Black Atlantic 2004 und rief in der Werkstatt der Kulturen die musikalische Bibliothek Spontaneous Situation ins Leben.
Von und mit: Dury De Bagh, Cristi Baza, Ilan Brandrup, Karim Kane, Niklas Lukassen, Endre Vazul Mandli, Johannes Oster, Angelika Gulnara Petzold, Luisa Polaina, Isabelle Rivera, Stefan Schneider, Gregor Steinbrecher
Musikalische Leitung: Jean-Paul Bourelly
Produktionsleitung: Carolin Lindenmaier
Spontaneous Youth Arkestra ist ein Projekt der akademie der autodidakten im Ballhaus Naunynstraße, gefördert durch den Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung.
Bourelly Wah – Guitar Vocals
With Marlon Browden – Drums
Volkan T. – Bass
Haus der Kulturen der Welt 
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin
Fon +49 (0)30 397 87 – 0
E-Mail info@hkw.de
Evil Music?
Obviously a loaded title. Ok we will be there. Hope to see our Berlin people. JP
Citizen X in Poland Sopot jazz fest in club SPATIF Oct.03.13
The second day of SJF 2013 are two excellent concerts at the club SPATIF. First, a solo show performed Austrian trumpeter Franz Hautzinger. The Artist modulated the sound of his instrument with a variety of rather well-known guitar effects, (wah-wah, chorus, etc.), which made an electrifying impression.
After a few-minute break on the stage three gentlemen installed themselvesfrom the U.S.. The drummer Kenny Martin, Sadiq Bey took his place behind the microphone, Jean-Paul Bourelly played the guitar and also sang. This included a large number of electronics (including two laptops).
The Trio presented a strong performance, not only musically, but also in words.
“I was happy to see another festival that has chosen to program a series of music that informs and challenges a young audience with a program that selected modernity over nostalgia while assuming the publics intelligence and not just assuming their lack of. The smarter and more aware the youth are, the better my life will be. Art and music are the first essentials in those building blocks. Kudos to artistic director saxophonist Adam Pieronczyk” Bourelly
Over the weekend 3kings Paris show Oct.4,2013
3KINGS show @ New Morning , Paris Oct. 4,2013
Jean-Paul Bourelly: Guitar & Vocals
Christian Bourdon: Drums & Percussion
Andre Nkouaga: Bass
The gig was a tune up for our upcoming cd. Stay tuned!
Schwartz Tragen Premiere Tonight Ballhaus Naunynstraße – Berlin
Citizen X – Bey, Bluiett, Bourelly and Martin @ Northsea NL this Friday
http://www.northseajazz.com/en/program/2013/friday-12-july/17057_citizen-x-featuring-jean-paul-bourelly/
Tomorrow in Washington DC a Tribute to Pete Cosey with Enrest Dawkins
TRANSPARENT PRODUCTIONS www.transparentproductionsdc.org
SUNDAYS@7@THE CAVERNS
AT BOHEMIAN CAVERNS
2001 11th St. NW WASH DC 20001
$15 advance/$20 at the door/Advance tickets are strongly urged!!!
Advance tickets: www.bohemiancaverns.com (202) 299-0800
June Black Music Month Weekends – 23rd & 30th
Sunday, June 23, 2013 – 7PM
JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY SOLO* – Tribute to Pete Cosey
JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY & ERNEST DAWKINS DUET
Jean-Paul Bourelly/guitar, Ernest Khabeer Dawkins/reeds
FRED ANDERSON TRIBUTE TRIO
Performance in Dedication to Fred Anderson
Ernest Khabeer Dawkins/reeds, Jean-Paul Bourelly/guitar
Nasar Abadey/drums
In addition, the trio will collaborate with Bobby Hill on his reading of ‘Free Jazz Blues”, in dedication to the A.A.C.M.
*Jean-Paul Bourelly will be an in-studio guest on WPFW’s G-Strings (www.wpfw.org) this Sunday. G-Strings airs from 9AM to 12Noon on 89,3FM. This Sunday’s guest-host will be Miyiki Williams, host of “A Sunday Kind of Love”, which follows at 12Noon.
Bourelly solo sound system, Tonight in Philadelphia Pa.
Bourelly w. R-Time in Bryant Park Friday 12:30PM 07.21.13
Make Music New York: Reut Regev’s R*Time
I will be performing with Reut, Igal Foni and Mark Petersen- 12:30pm – 1:30pm | Fountain Terrace
- http://www.bryantpark.org/plan-your-visit/calendar.html
Tonight @ Shapeshifters Lab Bourelly/Rudolph
| 18 Whitwell Pl Brooklyn, NY 11215 (646) 820-9452 |
New Blues@ Nu Blu tomorrow Saturday. 9PM
Please join us for Bourelly’s first NYC concert appearances in over 10 years…..a rare treat…!
ADAM RUDOLPH (handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba)
thumb pianos, sintir, multiphonic vocal, cajon, percussion)
JEAN PAUL BOURELLY (guitar, vocal, and beats)
SATURDAY June 15, 2013
9 pm @ NuBlu, Manhattan
62 Avenue C btw. 4&5th street
ADMISSION $10
http://www.nublu.net/program
TUESDAY June 18, 2013
8 pm @ Shapeshifter, Brooklyn
18 Whitwell Place btw 3rd and 4th ave.
ADMISSION $10
http://www.shapeshifterlab.com/portfolio/june-18-jean-paul-bourielly-adam-rudolph-duet/
WEB: JP: www.bourelly.com JPgotMangos
AR: Meta Records
Bourelly/Rudolph Duo in a “Spontaneous Situation” in NYC in June
Please join us for Bourelly’s first NYC concert appearances in over 10 years…..a rare treat…!
ADAM RUDOLPH (handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba)
thumb pianos, sintir, multiphonic vocal, cajon, percussion)
JEAN PAUL BOURELLY (guitar, vocal, and beats)
SATURDAY June 15, 2013
9 pm @ NuBlu, Manhattan
62 Avenue C btw. 4&5th street
ADMISSION $10
http://www.nublu.net/program
TUESDAY June 18, 2013
8 pm @ Shapeshifter, Brooklyn
18 Whitwell Place btw 3rd and 4th ave.
ADMISSION $10
http://www.shapeshifterlab.com/portfolio/june-18-jean-paul-bourielly-adam-rudolph-duet/
WEB: JP: www.bourelly.com JPgotMangos
AR: Meta Records
Blues Wakadolo debute 20.5.13 Karnival der Kulturen
New Language On Tour Now !
Fresh Perspectives in Funky Electronic Visions
Bourelly/Bowie/Tacuma/Russel
BBRT on tour in April 15 – 28th
“BBRT-NEW LANGUAGE”
Jean-Paul Bourelly, guitar, electronics, vocals, percussion,
Joseph Bowie Trombone, vocals ,
Jamaaladeen Tacuma , bass
DJ-Gea Russell
Throughout history music promoters, record companies & agents have resisted change!!…In Dixieland Jazz… this music was called “Jack Ass” (JASS) music when it was first formulated then changed to Jazz…Dizzy & Bird were under severe scrutiny in the beginning age of Bebop…. Coltrane was criticized in his latter years for evolving into spiritual concepts of music. Miles Davis was crucified for moving in directions of rock/funk as he shaped fusion music…Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry were ridiculed in the 50s…Chuck Berry, “Scat Man” Crothers, Elvis Presley & Buddy Holly were called Satanists as they shaped the beginnings of Rock & Roll… on Defunkt ‘s debut tour in Europe in 1978, opening the Wiesen Jazz Festival, we were “boo-ed” after our festival opening performance. The visionary Austrian promoter Fritz Thom, then paid us twice to also close the festival:-)
Are there similarities in these situations? Artists have creative vision beyond the promoters, agents & audience. Artists are motivated by creativity and development. Over thousands of years of existence and evolution on earth, Humans have instituted controls to limit the rate and nature of musical language development. Why? Consciousness leads to awareness! An emphasis on repetition and re-gurgitation of ‘genres/musical styles’ have effectively distorted our perception and curtailed the vast potential of our minds, bodies and souls. The manner, sound and the role that instruments play as a result have remained the same for hundreds, even thousands of years, allowing progress to be gained very slowly, maintaining maximum control, allowing full commercial exploitation thereby minimizing awareness and discovery. Experiments with sound have been allowed to function in isolated situations, out of reach and perception range of the population, who are masterfully controlled by multi-sensory distractions such as TV, computers, mobile phones, a bombardment of advertisement, mind numbing food additives and drugs, (illegal and legal) designed to create distorted reality. This has altered perception and the understanding of life style. We have been programmed to a delusional state, deprived of self-knowledge and the innate power accessible in our genetic code.
We must challenge our awareness and perception through vibrations that we understand as Music! Life is in constant evolution around us. Can we acknowledge the deep genetic voices in our sub-conscious; there to help us develop ourselves, tuning us in with life and helping us navigate a new multi-dimensional terrain? Yes! A new sonic language is imminent. Look around our planet at the popular uprisings occurring, in full swing with the “information age”. It is obvious that there is an opening underway. A “NEW (sound) LANGUAGE” is imminent! Not acoustic, not electric, not primitive, not futuristic but a merging of all these dimensions to speak to NOW. Life is a product of genetic evolution and alteration. Experiments have occurred over thousands of years, when traveling life forms in the universe merged with native life on earth.
This is a process of natural evolution throughout the galaxy. We are space travelers!! Our ship is the earth itself, traveling through the galaxy, orbiting the Sun! Embrace the future and evolution of sound and multi-dimensional realization. Understand the little known and least understood essence of life.
BB&T “New Language” present a new concept of sonic media, offering a new, unique approach to improvised music… a counter narrative to the huge body of “sameness” that is engulfing humanity. The existential creative process, fostered by necessity, is the passion fueling this group.
There is a necessity to speak to the times, service mankind, unlock the shackles of mental and spiritual bondage and weigh in on the side of humanity, expressing the shift, the changing of the global script. The situation is new and particular. WE focus on the awareness of sounds reacting to rhythm sculptured by BB&T (3 formidable figures of multi-culture). This is what gives “New Language” special meaning.
BB&T “New Language” offers a fresh concept in sonic adventure in improvisation and groove culture.
We are heading into a new sound cycle, resonating throughout the galaxy. Tune into the human frequency.
Tune into “
Throughout history music promoters, record companies & agents have resisted change!!…In Dixieland Jazz… this music was called “Jack Ass” (JASS) music when it was first formulated then changed to Jazz…Dizzy & Bird were under severe scrutiny in the beginning age of Bebop…. Coltrane was criticized in his latter years for evolving into spiritual concepts of music. Miles Davis was crucified for moving in directions of rock/funk as he shaped fusion music…Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry were ridiculed in the 50s…Chuck Berry, “Scat Man” Crothers, Elvis Presley & Buddy Holly were called Satanists as they shaped the beginnings of Rock & Roll… on Defunkt ‘s debut tour in Europe in 1978, opening the Wiesen Jazz Festival, we were “boo-ed” after our festival opening performance. The visionary Austrian promoter Fritz Thom, then paid us twice to also close the festival:-)
Are there similarities in these situations? Artists have creative vision beyond the promoters, agents & audience. Artists are motivated by creativity and development not swayed and influenced by temporary financial gain. Over thousands of years of existence and evolution on earth, Humans have instituted controls to limit the rate and nature of musical language development. Why? Consciousness leads to awareness! An emphasis on repetition and re-gurgitation of ‘genres/musical styles’ have effectively distorted our perception and curtailed the vast potential of our minds, bodies and souls. The manner, sound and the role that instruments play as a result have remained the same for hundreds, even thousands of years, allowing progress to be gained very slowly, maintaining maximum control, allowing full commercial exploitation thereby minimizing awareness and discovery. Experiments with sound have been allowed to function in isolated situations, out of reach and perception range of the population, who are masterfully controlled by multi-sensory distractions such as TV, computers, mobile phones, a bombardment of advertisement, mind numbing food additives and drugs, (illegal and legal) designed to create distorted reality. This has altered perception and the understanding of life style. We have been programmed to a delusional state, deprived of self-knowledge and the innate power accessible in our genetic code.
We must challenge our awareness and perception through vibrations that we understand as Music! Life is in constant evolution around us. Can we acknowledge the deep genetic voices in our sub-conscious; there to help us develop ourselves, tuning us in with life and helping us navigate a new multi-dimensional terrain? Yes! A new sonic language is imminent. Look around our planet at the popular uprisings occurring, in full swing with the “information age”. It is obvious that there is an opening underway. A “NEW (sound) LANGUAGE” is imminent! Not acoustic, not electric, not primitive, not futuristic but a merging of all these dimensions to speak to NOW. Life is a product of genetic evolution and alteration. Experiments have occurred over thousands of years, when traveling life forms in the universe merged with native life on earth.
This is a process of natural evolution throughout the galaxy. We are space travelers!! Our ship is the earth itself, traveling through the galaxy, orbiting the Sun! Embrace the future and evolution of sound and multi-dimensional realization. Understand the little known and least understood essence of life.
BB&T “New Language” present a new concept of sonic media, offering a new, unique approach to improvised music… a counter narrative to the huge body of “sameness” that is engulfing humanity. The existential creative process, fostered by necessity, is the passion fueling this group.
There is a necessity to speak to the times, service mankind, unlock the shackles of mental and spiritual bondage and weigh in on the side of humanity, expressing the shift, the changing of the global script. The situation is new and particular. WE focus on the awareness of sounds reacting to rhythm sculptured by BB&T (3 formidable figures of multi-culture). This is what gives “New Language” special meaning.
BB&T “New Language” offers a fresh concept in sonic adventure in improvisation and groove culture.
We are heading into a new sound cycle, resonating throughout the galaxy. Tune into the human frequency.
Tune into “New Language”.
Shadow Crow concert on Arte
The concert is still up on the website for those who would still like to see it..
Shadow Crow Review
Jef Lee Johnson, Magic Intact
Saturday, 23 February 2013 18:16 | Written by Frédéric Goaty
Thus, tonight’s winter Sons d’Hiver, Jef Lee Johnson aka Rainbow Crow was no longer ours. But thanks to Reggie Washington’s true love for the blues of his takeoff companion, his magic resonated through the strings of another singular guitarist: Jean-Paul Bourelly.
@ Mac Créteil Maison des Arts, Sons d’hiver, Paris by
Pascal Martos
Jean-Paul Bourelly (guitar, vocals), Reggie Washington (bass, vocals), Patrick Dorcéan (drums). Créteil Maison des Arts, Friday, Feb. 22.
The tribute was therefore as captivating as it was mesmerizing, for the former bassist of Five Elements of Steve Coleman, Buckshot LeFonque and RH Factor could not have found a better blues preacher than Jean Paul Bourelly for the music of Jef Lee Johnson relived on stage – one last time? Fingers crossed that others continue to interpret these delicate songs and blues to willingly poetic words.
We will be back soon, in another magazine covering the art and the style Jef Lee Johnson. Because, as he sang it so well,
“Everything starts right now.”
In the meantime, check out this concert on Arte Live Web:
Frédéric Goaty
Lawrence “Butch” Morris February 10, 1947 – January 27, 2013
“Butch’s approach gave us a new way to express and control the improvisational impulse with a larger group.
He figured out the pratical means of keeping ideas cohesive. This is a game changer. With the Conduction technique in hand, large format ensembles will be liberated, tooled with the means of expressing that illusive, “urgent spontaneity” that has served to fortify black cultural expression and identity of Africans in the Americans. This has until now been mostly the exculsive domain of the trio or quartet. Not any more.
On the personal level Butch was somewhat of a social genius. He had a way of handling people of all walks of life that was very special and personal.
I was in a Turkish bar with him in Berlin once and he had such a deep friendship with the bartender neither of them could speak the others language but they had a great communication, irony, jokes all of it.
It was all non verbal and intimate. That was Butch. ”
It was a great honor and pleasure to learn from him through the years and be effect by this innovative thinker.
JP Bourelly
JPB in concert, In memory of Jeff Lee Johnson, Feb. 22. 2013 Paris
Jeff Lee Johnsons music is a gleaming example of a guitarist who moved seamlessly through the traditions of the blues, r&b jazz and freeform treating them all as one extended language yet housing those ideas cleverly in a pop structure format that allowed it to travel well. Jeff Lee’s music carried the sonic signifiers that ones ear was accustom to if you were aware of the rich arch of important American music. One could hear Watt stacks, Texas Blues, Memphis blues , Prince, Wes Montgomery, Hendrix with a twinge of the rural heartland.
Yet he still possessed that wide perspective that stretched from the chaotic surges, reminiscent of Sonny Sharrock superimposed over verses filled with playful, bitter, sweet irony,”
“It got thumbs up, It got five stars, It got that nod now, Ev’rybody wants one”
” It ain’t Hard for you, You just sail on through”.
His chordal movements had a sentimental touch to them, yet stayed firm and never fell into the syrup bowl. He above all was a voice on guitar who left a body of work of cleverly crafted songs that used popular forms to express his most intimate and urgent messages.
I will appear in this concert dedicated to his memory and his music entitled “Rainbow Shadow”
With his close friend on bass Reggie Washington and drummer Patrice Dorcean.
22nd of February in Paris, France at the festival Sons d’ hiver .
His music will undoubtable live on. JPB
check it here:
https://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/jeff-lee-johnson/id14940270
Bourelly’s Guitar Workshop “Polyrhythm the Blues and Reduction”
I give a workshop for all instrument that deals with getting to what I would call, retrieving purposeful improvisation. This workshop looks at the combined forces of rhythm, most particularly polyrhythm, sonic manipulation and reduction, to enliven interplay within a group situation.Those are some of the themes I have been gravitating towards when I workshop with my group and when I am teaching students.This workshop tries to avert the pitfall of the auto pilot solo tendencies by manipulating these multipule elements during soloing and performing a melody.
I take the participants through a series of exercises that promote free association and bring the players more into the consciousness of dialogue with a rhythm section. Thus avoiding a static drums beat over a static series of preconceived ideas or gymnastic tricks.
We break up this willing complicity with a little sensitivity training as well. Instead of putting more notes in the exchange, I try to get the player to establish an idea, then go through a cycle, reducing that idea down to fewer parts of the puzzle each time around. This training encourages disciple and also shows how playing less can be an effective direction in creating unique opportunities for meaningful interplay as a soloist leading a rhythm section.
On the sensitivity training side, I take the players through a series of exercises were we place a consciousness on listening to ones own playing with the ear of an outsider (one in the audience).
This is a mental training to separate the stages of hearing and to suggest separating the stages of emotions, to detect different stages of emotion that one may go through during a solo and identify how to keep a solo or melodic verse alive and vibrant.
I mean there is a strong visual image that can trigger you into some more interesting tonal territory To be the observer of emotions or the provocateur.
There are also visual techniques that we use to open up the mind and soul, imagining the imagination as a with the ablities to adjust and tune into subtle degrees of phrasing, dynamics, dramatic use of space and sonic expression. This machine imagery is effected by leaving the player free to reinvent his/her self and superimpose another identity on the journey of discovering ones capabilities.
I use the Butch Morris technique of conduction to direct the players through ensemble passages and in so doing, by the end of a workshop, we achieve a complete original work, embedded with the techniques of polyrhythm, sonic purpose and reduction.
For more information contact: bookings@bourelly.com
Bourelly plays the Vemuram Rage e overdrive on tour!
http://www.vemuram.com/Artists/Jean-Paul-top.html
Stone Raiders Fall Promo Tour
Stone Raiders “Truth to Power” Out Now!
Announcing, the European release of:
http://www.jazzrecords.com/enja/yeb-7726
“Einen modernen, rohen, bluesigen Funkrock allererster Klasse ….”
(U. Steinmetzger)
On one summers day, three good friends occupied the studio with an urgent message to share.
What came out was a majestic union of raw, Rock/Funk/Blues power at its best.
Stone Raider “Truth to Power”.
Available now on Amazon:
amazon.de/Truth-Power-Stone-Raid…
Visit us:
CD release tour:
Oct., 5th – 14th, 2013 (detaillierter Zeitplan folgt in Kürze)
contact – Uwe
Long Live Pete Cosey!
Bourelly first moments with the new 7 string Panthera,Musikmesse 2012
Forces of Nature
I have been hearing a lot of musicians at Frankfurt this year talk about the new business atmosphere that we find ourselves in. What I am hearing is that the promise of being independent against the backdrop of the enabling force of the internet is coming to a fork in the road. A lot of notions about sitting at home or in the studio and watching your downloads click with the speed of Lewis Hamilton’s, tachometer, seems to be developing into a dream to no where.
Going out and playing live is the ultimate exposer for your music and the most durable bonding force for you and your fans. It seems almost everyone agrees, at least that has become clear. The net is not a cure for an ailing career, its just an enhancement tool.
But you gotta have something to enhance.
Bourelly at Frankfurter Messe this week.
Signing, meet and greet.
Friends
I’ll be at the Frankfurt music messe at the Warwick/Framus booth.
I’ll be there the last Stone Raiders tour, the upcoming CD and about my custom 7 string Panthera (“Turbulence”) that thats all over the Stone Raiders CD.
Plus: a couple of copies advanced copies of Stone Raiders debut CD Truth to Power.
Come and say hi. Best.
4:00pm Jean-Paul Bourelly with Earl Slick
and Reggie Wooten
hall 4, floor 1, booth #12
The Education of Auma Obama music by Jean-Paul Bourelly
I am very happy! (quote from Director, Branwen Okpako)
Winner of the following awards.
New video from Stoner Raiders tour (Paris)
The Gear
Just some gear info for all the gutarists. On the Stone Raiders tour this winter I am using: Framus Panthera 7 string (nickname “Turbulence). Framus Ruby Riot head w 4 12” Cabinet,
Effects : Pod 3x Live, Zvex “Box of Rock”, Digitech “Whammy” (the black one) Dunlop “Carbon Copy”.
Stone Raiders Backstage Jan.16th, Paris, New Morning
Backstage at the New Morning. Stone Raider January 16th Paris.
Beautiful audience plus Cheik sitting in. Great fun.
JPB Radio Spot Zwölle NL
Stone Raiders – interview on the reknowned www.kxradio.nl with Martin van Golen.
Go to the icon for Podcast on the home page, scroll down to Martin van Golen and click on any of the 3 tabs the apple if you have an apple mac or the arrow if you would like to download the show. They were on the first half of the show. Great interview!! Happy listening!!!
Thoughts on the new cd “Truth to Power”
The album Truth to Power, is a reflection on what I believe is the theme of our time. That is the re-balancing of values and for the first time since the 60’s a real questioning of our system.
What are the monetary systems the social systems, defense systems really doing for the people of the land. What should we really expect our government to provide for us as citizens and considering the new global power shifts, how are the old arcane ways of dividing and controlling a society holding us back in this new global day and age.
Stone Raiders Album Tour Update Jan/Feb 2012
Renowned guitarist, singer and songwriter Jean-Paul Bourelly will embark on another vivifying tour as lead singer and guitarist with the group Stone Raiders in support of their upcoming debut album, Truth to Power. An album calling for the awakening of civilization through the mediums of Rock, Funk, Jazz and Soul. Afro-rock extraordinaire Will Calhoun on drums and Darryl “Munch” Jones(of Rolling Stones fame) on bass – whose vocals also adorn several tracks including ‘Power To Spirit’ – complete The Stone Raiders. Their debut offering is flowing with urgency with songs that gather the world’s inhabitants cry for justice and refine it into a compelling musical journey.
As the bands tour last summer preceded any recorded material, Jean-Paul and the rest of the band instilled a reverse distillation method to the album process. They used that tour as inspiration to work out the albums material. In the spirit of this process, advanced CD’s will be available exclusively at all Stone Raiders tour dates. Another bonus available only to concert goers.
Truth to Power may not be the cure to ‘The Money Disease’ – the closing track of the album – but it could be an eye opener to those unaware and a rallying cry to those who see it as clearly as Jean-Paul, Darryl and Will do.
Truth to Power will be released in April 2012 on Yellowbird Records, a division of the acclaimed German Jazz label Enja Records.
Read more about the band Stone Raiders.
The Boom Bop CD in now available on CD Baby
Ongoing Tour!! BBT New Lanaguage
The evolution of Music/Language is mandatory for the development of humanity!
Take off on the spaceship earth. BBT New Language is here once again in search of sonic territories unknown.
Rhythms speaking to inner-planetary upheaval, globalism, artificial intelligence, and sonic migration.
Bourelly,Bowie and Tacuma – Three incredible musical souls in dialog with beat culture, historic black music, electronics and what is the new avant-garde?
“Drummer On Screen”
BBT New Language is:
- Jean-Paul Bourelly: guitar, vocal, electronics
- Joe Bowie: trombone, percussion, electronics, vocals
- Jamaaladeen Takuma: electric bass
- Gea Russell: turntables, samples, image projection
BBT Tour Dates Fall 2011
Bourelly’s latest soundtrack, “The Education of Auma Obama”
TIFF screenings Venue Date Time
Public 1 AMC 6 09/09/11 02:15PM
Public 2 AMC 10 09/10/11 09:45AM
Public 3 AMC 7 09/18/11 10:15AM
http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2011/educationofaumaobama
Black Stone Raiders in Salzburg
Check this out!!
Black Stone Raiders in effect!
Filmed by Martina & Franz www.little-guitar-slinger.de
Black Stone Raiders T-Shirt
here is the official Black Stone Raiders t-shirt available at the merchandise desk after the concert
Black Stone Raiders @ Rockhouse, Salzburg (June 6, 2011)
Check out this amazing recording by the new power trio Black Stone Raiders from Rockhouse in Salzburg on June 6th, 2011.
Black Stone Raiders – Rockhouse, Salzbug – June 6, 2011 by bourelly
Jean-Paul Bourelly (guitar, vocal)
Darryl Jones (bass, vocal)
Will Calhoun (drums)
Recording by Jörg Mohr
Official Website: http://www.blackstoneraiders.com
Tour Management: http://www.tekknobase.com(tekknobase@aol.com)
New Facebook fanpage for Black Stone Raiders
Did you go or are you going to one of the Black Stone Raiders concerts?
We encourage you to post your comments, pictures or videos you may have on the new Facebook page:
Black Stone Raiders Facebook Fanpage
Black Stone Raiders European Tour (June/July 2011)
Guitarist/songwriter Jean-Paul Bourelly is hooking up with two of his old friends to form an exciting new power trio called Black Stone Raiders. Bourelly’s childhood buddy Darryl Jones (Rolling Stones) and long time associate Will Calhoun (Boom Bop, Living Color) are coming to Europe to throw down in the month of June. The music will be funky and rocky and feature some of Bourelly’s latest creations helped out by two of the most dynamic musicians in progressive music.
Dates
| Date | Location | Venue |
| Fr.,03.Juni | Stuttgart (DE) | Bix |
| Sa.,04.Juni | Bern (CH) | Tell’s Saal |
| So.,05.Juni | off | |
| Mo.,06.Juni | Salzburg (A) | Rockhouse |
| Die.,07.Juni | Habach (DE) | Village |
| Mi.,08.Juni | Hannover (DE) | Jazzclub |
| Do.,09.Juni | Essen (DE) | Zeche Carl |
| Fr.,10.Juni | Münster (DE) | Hot Jazz Club |
| Sa.,11.Juni | Dresden (DE) | Tante Ju |
| So.,12.Juni | Berlin (DE) | Quasimoddo |
| Mo.,13.Juni | Halle (DE) | Objekt 5 |
| Die.,14.Juni | Erfurt (DE) | Museumskeller |
| Mi.,15.Juni | off | |
| Do.,16.Juni | Dornbirn (AU) | Conrad Sohm |
| Fr.,17.Juni | Ried (AU) | KiK |
| Sa.,18.Juni | off | |
| So.,19.Juni | Meran (IT) | Gomp Alm Festival |
| Mo.,20.Juni | Wien (AU) | Porgy |
| Die.,21.Juni | Off Day | |
| Mi.,22.Juni | Völkermarkt (AU) | Step |
| Do.,23.Juni | Graz (AU) | Orpheum |
| Fr.,24.Juni | Lienz (AU) | Autohaus |
| Sa.,25.Juni | Udine (IT) | Festival |
| So.,26.Juni | Maribor (SI) | Lent |
| So.,01.Juli | Moscow (RU) | Forte Club |
| So.,02.Juli | Perm (RU) | Movement Festival |
Check the vibe here:
Links
www.bourelly.com
www.darryljones.com
www.willcalhoun.com
JPGotMangos
Jean-Paul Bourelly’s 50th Birthday Celebration Performance
MAGIC OF THE NOW
JEAN-PAUL BOURELLY’s 50TH ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCE
I am honored and excited to announce that my friends Archie Shepp, Jamaladeen Tacuma and Joe Bowie are coming to play with me on the 22 Nov to ring in my 50th birthday at the A-trane. I can’t think of a better way to begin the next half century.
I first met the legendary Archie Shepp in 1998 when when we played together at popkomm in Koln. My brother Carl and I used to listen to his records when we were kids. My favorite songs was called “Steam” and Archie and I played that song in that first Koln concert. Later we got the chance to collaborate in a wonderful way on my record Boom Bop.
The amazing Joe Bowie I first heard at the Peppermint lounge in New York with his group Defunkt. In those days all the guitar players wanted to get into that group because he was known to give the guitar space to expand and with Joe as the front man, it was clear they were destined for stardom.
He invited me later at New Yorks Knitting Factory, to record the Defunkt Special edition, “Tribute to Muddy Waters”.
My friendship with the irrepressible Jamaaladeen Tacuma started out in Philadelphia in 97 after a European tour with the recording of the group Brotherzone. Tacuma makes everyone just sound better. He is one of my favorite bassist of all time, mixing R&B with Jazz with harmolodic vibes that always keep his bass ideas cooking.
As for me Jean Paul Bourelly, I’ve been known as a force in new funk forms and I love to mix musical genre’s so this evening will surely turn into a high energy, multi dimensional groove party.
Blues Bandits
Responding to an endless search to transcend the blues, Native Chicago born guitarist, conceptualist Jean-Paul Bourelly assembled a deeply rooted and multi-cultural group of the finest musicians of modern blues terrain.
In this project, each musician brings to the table his own language of blues culture.
“Blues is like any other music in that it needs regeneration to stay relevant. Each person feeds their special take on that feeling into the pot of gumbo we call Blues Bandits.”
Lead Vocals Dean Bowman himself influenced by the legendary vocalizer Leon Thomas has a strong background in the church, is no stranger to the blues and experimentation.
Bourelly heard Sako Fily during a concert from his longtime friend singer Abdourahmane Diop (Boom Bop). Fily is the nephew of the great Kora master Toumani Diabaté brings an pedigree as well as a hypnotic flavor to rhythm.
Wynton Kelly Stevenson is the young urban voice of the blues and one that Bourelly took special interest in. The two met in a small club in Berlin’s Neuköln district. “This cat came in with a belt around his waist, full of harmonicas, a few effects and a RAT (portable amp) and what I heard was fresh, I mean fresh enough that I had to go and borrow an old beat up guitar from the backroom and jam with him.”
Darryl Taylor a Houston Texas native is well grounded in blues and R&B having a long association with 60’s soul group Archie Bell and the Drells.
What followed was Bourelly inviting him along with Fily to his Spontaneous Situation musician night. The group and the sound are born out of the musical exchanges during those 7 Spontaneous shows.
Performances & Interviews
Interview (Under Your Skin)
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JEAN-PAUL BOURELLYs 3KINGS
Live at the Quasimodo
Dienstag, 30.09.2008
Kantstasse 12a, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Tel. 030 318045-6
(U+S-Bahn Zoologischer Garten)
Jean-Paul Bourelly’s latest group is called 3Kings.
The trio consists of drummer Marlon Browden (Nora Jones and John Scofield) and bassist Jonas “Bibi” Hammond former bassist (with Ali Hassan Kuban) and Bourelly’s rhythmic meaty guitar.
3Kings music is a band that creates its sound from riding on rhythmic currents, highlighted by rugged cymbal work, deep bass grooves and a moody, stratospheric guitar.
This concoction is blended into a sound that is at once mystical and modern. »more info
THE BAND OF GYPSY’s RELOADED
Jean-Paul Bourelly – guitar
Melvin Gibbs – bass
Grant Calvin Weston – drums
Tour Spring 2008 (March 17. – April 4.)
18.03. DORTMUND(D) – FZW
19.03. KASSEL(D) – Schlachthof
20.03. STUTTGART(D) – BoomTown-Festival/Bix
22.03. BERLIN(D) – A-Trane
23.03. BERLIN(D) – A-Trane
24.03. AMSTERDAM(NL) – Bimhuis
27.03. MANNHEIM(D) – Alte Feuerwache
28.03. KREFELD(D) – Kulturpunkt
29.03. KÖLN(D) – Pfandhaus
01.04. INNSBRUCK(A) – Treibhaus
02.04. WIEN(A) – Reigen/Festival
03.04. VELDEN(A) – Bluesiana
»Penthesilea«
21. February 2008 Schaubühne Berlin
Experimentaljazz im Krieg der Geschlechter
Gitarrist Jean-Paul Bourelly spielt in Percevals »Penthesilea«-Version
(Premiere. 21.2.08) »review »more info
Für Luk Perceval gehört der Krieg in jener Welt, in der Heinrich von Kleists Amazonen-Drama »Penthesilea« spielt, zum Alltag.
Frau und Mann sind im Kampf der Geschlechter gefangen und menschliche Beziehungen nachhaltig von den Traumata des Krieges geprägt.
Umgeben von Jahrtausende altem Ur-Misstrauen ist es unmöglich, Liebe zu verwirklichen und zu leben.
Luk Percevals Lesart macht Penthesileas Liebeswahn, in dessen finalem »Crime of Passion« sie Achills Herz verschlingt, in poetischer Form greifbar, indem er mit Jean-Paul Bourelly zusammen arbeitet, dessen Improvisationen auf der E-Gitarre Teil der Bühnenaktion sind.
Er konzipiert den Theaterabend gleichsam als eine Art »Konzert«, dessen klangliches Spektrum – in Wort und Musik – an der großen, gewalttätigen Dimension des Kleist’schen Stücks intensiv teilhaben lässt.