Fucking Ballads was originally released in 2024 as a CD. You can buy it here: www.euphorium.de/rubriken/records/fuckingballads.htm

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Remembering the pleasure of the first whole concert set of my piano trio with Baby Sommer and Barry Guy happend in 2018, I later was proud of the release of ist recording as the album entitled One For My Baby And One More For The Bass. The year after I took care of continuing my trio/quintet work with Christian Lillinger featuring Peter Brötzmann (listen to Hot Ass/Beauty Legs, Bambule!!) and John Dikeman (once to be released as Steadfast Noon). In 2020 it became possible to formulate once more a new chapter of my adventurous vast ensemble E U P H O R I U M _ f r e a k e s t r a. This session (once to be released as Refutnokatplünck!) contributed by musicians like Sven-Ake Johansson and Frank Gratkowski also turned out to be the starting point of broadening the camber music aspects of the ensemble.
The starting point fo the aesthetically fired rocket of the year 2021 was set at the festival in Peitz, to which I was invited to present my 1st solo concert. Driven by the intensity of that performance I soon hit the road with Baby. Invited to play our trio music with Barry at the festival in Saarbruecken I was curious about his abillity to deal with the absence of the functioning hearing to his left. Today I am still amazed by the intensity of the applause for our concert occured the following night. It was Joe McPhee who emerged from the audience. Stretching out his hands elatedly towards us he shouted out: „The fucking best!!!“. Already outside the venue the man standing next to John Edwards ssemed deeply impressed by our performance: Hans Oberlechner. Since that I am already happily looking forward to seeing the trio at the festival in St. Johann.
At the Leipzig date one month and a half later the night is luckily going to take Julian Sartorius as well into account. Having been invited for safety’s sake before the Saarbruecken approval of Baby’S fitness he now takes part in the first set encountering my piano and Axel Doerner’s trumpet (once to be released as Jul Fuel). As the trio with Baby is ready to celebrate my ancient buddy himself is obviously a big deal. Tonight, his approach to the bandstand is stunning. Setting sail into our sonic ocean we travel with a bedrock of clatter and sound as orchestral as a trio can get. What an interplay for pleasure! (Oliver Schwerdt)