Rich in textures, brilliant arrangements and soloistic highlights, « Structures & Beauty » fascinates as an outstanding musical drama, clear-sightedly grounded in the present and at the same time the outline of a visionary world theater directed towards the future. Intoxicating and touching, thrilling and challenging.
The FUCHSTHONE ORCHESTRA represents a contemporary, large-scale orchestral sound that exceeds genre-specific boundaries and takes the listener on a spectacular sound journey. The ensemble features 22 outstanding and multi-award-winning musicians from Cologne and Essen.
Both composers, Christina Fuchs and Caroline Thon, have long been recognized as leading exponents of contemporary, large-scale jazz and share two decades of experience leading large ensembles.
Tracklist/Double album:
Disc 1
1. The Beauty (Caroline Thon)
2. Iceland (Christina Fuchs)
3. The Truth of J.P.S.? (Caroline Thon)
4. Mamoiada (Christina Fuchs)
Disc 2
1. Suite Structures (Christina Fuchs)
2. Lednesip (Caroline Thon)
3. Yves.Klein.Blau (Christina Fuchs)
4. Khor Ba (Caroline Thon)
Structures & Beauty
9/23 JazzThing
« With their debut album « Structures & Beauty » (enja/edel), the Fuchsthone Orchestra is taking a creative inventory. Recorded in June 2022 at the Deutschlandfunk broadcasting hall in Cologne, the material was more than enough for a double CD, but not one note, composition or solo should have been less. »
05/23 Jazzthetik
« The debut double album of the Fuchsthone Orchestra is a large-orchestral masterpiece…Structures&Beauty unites all that can make large orchestral jazz thrilling: free and heavy grooving passages, soloists who pour their whole heart into this music, and a political ambition that has become unfortunately rare. »
06/23 JazzThing
„Big, so beautiful. Structures & Beauty is the assertion that beauty exists…”
