Who would get involved in something like this? A trumpet and double bass duo—tsk, tsk, tsk… it sounds like a stopgap solution from two musicians stranded in the middle of nowhere, eager to make music but unable to find anyone else—one a double bassist, the other a trumpeter. However, the opposite is true, so to speak. These two brilliant instrumentalists found each other in a vast pool of top musicians in Central Europe and, in a way that refreshes both heart and mind, make the impossible possible: a double bass and trumpet duo.

But if you add their voices, the drums integrated into the bass, a bit of whistling, body percussion, and the flugelhorn, you’ve got a trio or quartet at work. A mere description of the two of them hardly does these cross-genre pioneers justice, for they all too easily shatter the boundaries of any description. And what does the music sound like in the world of Brein and Gansch? It grooves, rocks, caresses, snaps, jokes, bustles, puffs, and swings intergalactically between the star Jazz and the planet Vienna—it’s a true joy. Bumtschakabumtrara.

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