Andreas Schulz - Quiet (CD)

Sound painter with string instruments 
Andreas Schulz is a guitarist and bassist, composer and arranger, as well as a producer and media creator with his own studio. He has also been known to the guitar scene for many years as the editor-in-chief of the trade magazines AKUSTIK GITARRE and ACOUSTIC PLAYER. Andreas studied with German jazz guitar icon Michael Sagmeister and attended master classes with top international players such as John Abercrombie, Ralph Towner, and Mick Goodrick. He has also been the musical director at Frankfurt's renowned TIGERPALAST variety theater for almost 30 years.

QUIET 
This collection of 20 songs offers tranquil acoustic guitar music at its finest. Created in 2023 and 2024, QUIET the guitarist's more relaxed side. Not only are the tempos of the pieces somewhat reduced, but the instrumentation is also less dense. The focus is more on the calmly developing melodies than on Groove and Drive. No wonder, since 10 lullabies (lullabies or cradle songs) are a central part of the repertoire. However, they are more like lullabies for adults, with the special feature that despite all the reduction and focus, there are still plenty of smaller There are musical surprises to discover in detail. A musical contribution to the 'magic of simplicity'.

Story
This is what the musician says about QUIET: "While I was still working on the larger-scale pieces of SKETCHBOOK 2023/22 in 23, a parallel preference for small, simple musical ideas and forms developed. Perhaps as a contrast to the sometimes quite dense ensemble arrangements of my previous productions. I began to collect ideas that were particularly suitable for creating small, miniature compositions. - Simple songs, initially recorded entirely solo on many different guitars and related string instruments. This, in turn, developed into a series of 10 matching pieces that have an almost naive, childlike character. – the 'Ten Lullabies'. However, some pieces still asked whether a different instrument might be an enrichment. Pianist Tom Schlüter added another timbre. Thank you for your inspiring contributions, dear Tom. - not only on the piano, but also on the string arrangement of Lullaby #5."

Press This is what the magazine AKUSTIK GITARRE (issue 1-2024) wrote about the music of Andreas Schulz: “You don’t know what What should one admire more: the variety of ideas, the countless tonal nuances of the various acoustic guitars used, or the dreamlike and tasteful layers of the arrangements? Or rather the sophistication behind all these always airylight melodies and the spectrum from folky to funky?"