Karl Ratzer Sexteto Brazil

Karl Ratzer’s “Brazil” project arose from his long-standing friendship with musicians from three different continents. Their wide-ranging expertise and experience in the most diverse musical styles lend new freshness and topicality to original compositions and classics of Brazilian and Latin American origin, as well as North American jazz standards. It is not the “young lions” with a “higher, faster, louder” attitude that come into play here, but the “old lions” with melodic wisdom of age, coupled with a still bubbling joy of playing. Ratzer’s long-standing rhythm section with Peter Herbert on bass and Howard Curtis on drums is joined by singer, guitarist and composer Yta Moreno, who was born in Rio de Janeiro and lives in Vienna, supported by world-class percussionist Fred Mascavo and Andreas Werth on organ.
“Brazil” shows how a confident Viennese master guitarist, focused on the essentials, is also completely in his element in Brazilian music. It’s danceable music to boot – with depth at the highest level!