The Silent Jazz Ensemble - Nightwalker (2014)

From the start, it was one of the first CD jazz bestsellers throughout all of Germany. Two additional CDs were produced with different band member until 1996 ("Kashina" and "Birds of Passage"), and almost 50,000 were sold in all, a figure that is rarely achieved in jazz. As a result, the ensemble became one of the most successful German music groups in the marginal genre of jazz.
The media lavished high praise on the three previously released CDs of the Silent Jazz Ensemble, and music magazines such as "Stereoplay" and "HiFi-Vision" selected them as CD of the month and year respectively. They were also listed in the jazz charts of many record stores.
Now the "Silent Jazz Ensemble" is making a comeback with the CD "Nightwalker" as a trio with new group members!
Helmut Engel-Musehold, who has concentrated on solo and duet programs, teaching and composing TV and film music over the past years, has found two congenial partners in the Italian bassist Roberto Badoglio and the US American drummer Ray Kaczynski, who pick up seamlessly on the tradition of the "Silent Jazz Ensemble". Thanks to their interaction, they make a lot more of the trio than a rhythm group with one soloist. Characteristic and special are the interplay between Helmut Engel-Musehold and Roberto Badoglio, based on their close collaboration as a duet ("Nightwalker" and "Longing For The Sun").
While the first CDs of the "Silent Jazz Ensemble" was more like single pieces with completely controlled production and many overdubs, the music is now clearer, more varied and jazzy thanks to the live concept. Music has been created that is characterized by emotion, folklore and jazz with lots of room for improvisation.
To fulfill the demands of sound, the CD was recorded in a studio, completely live and without technical tricks: a new interpretation of a tradition, genuinely "handmade".
When Helmut Engel-Musehold plays his instruments, he creates music of poetic depth. He gives a purpose to each note, but at the same time leaves room for them to develop freely.