Field Of Lights Regener Pappik Busch

• 1 All Alone 03:24
• 2 Chamisso Square 05:18
• 3 Field Of Lights 05:28
• 4 No Moon At All 04:31
• 5 Round Top 03:00
• 6 Billie's Blues 06:10
• 7 Song For My Father 05:44
• 8 Idle Gossip 04:37
• 9 Nostalgia In Times Square 03:09
• 10 Bye-Ya 03:38
• Total Runtime 44:59

Info for Field Of Lights

In the beginning, there was jazz: When Sven Regener came to Berlin in the early 1980s, he initially wanted to play jazz. It then evolved into an avant-garde version, in keeping with the spirit of the times: Regener was a trumpet player and played with the no-jazz band Zatopek. Only later did he become the singer and songwriter of Element of Crime, and the trumpet took a back seat.

These roots connect him to Richard Pappik (drums) and Ekki Busch (piano), three musicians who have a blind trust in each other musically, having played together in Element of Crime for decades. And when Regener turned more heavily to the trumpet and jazz from 2012 onwards, the three finally came together in 2018 to form "Regener Pappik Busch."

With their debut album, "Ask Me Now," "Regener Pappik Busch" reached the top of the German jazz charts in 2021. The trio performed at the Leverkusen Jazz Days, released their second album, "Things to Come," in 2022, performed an evening of Beat literature and bebop classics with Blixa Bargeld, and played numerous concerts.

"Field of Lights," their third album, is characterized by maximum immediacy. The trio lineup of piano, trumpet, and drums creates a harsh sound, something sparse and brittle in the music that opens up spaces. The music has room to breathe.

On "Field of Lights," we hear classics such as "All Alone" and "Billie's Blues" by Billie Holiday and Mal Waldron, "Nostalgia in Times Square" by Charles Mingus, and an extremely sophisticated, pointed version of Thelonious Monk's "Bye-Ya." We hear these and other familiar pieces, but we don't always recognize them right away – because "Regener Pappik Busch" actually succeeds in giving them a new perspective.

It's music that seems to come from another time, another world, but which is in truth simply timeless. A feeling that emerges not least from the open treatment of "Regener Pappik Busch": They approach the material with knowledge, passion, and respect, but not submissively.

The three original compositions fit seamlessly into this framework. Anyone familiar with the atmosphere at Chamissoplatz in Berlin-Kreuzberg will easily recognize its echo in the piece "Chamisso Square." The melancholy in the trumpet reflects the sublime Wilhelminian-era facades, the piano the dim light of the gas lamps, the eccentric percussion the bumpy straightness of the cobblestones, as well as the romantic fairytale art in the work of its namesake, Adelbert von Chamisso.

The same applies to "Round Top," in which one feels as if one is witnessing a farewell to something, a mourning for a loss. The title track, "Field of Lights," stretched into infinity, finally testifies to the musical understanding of these men: in every note, one senses their decades-long intimacy, their intuitive knowledge of each other's next steps.

Thus, "Field of Lights" is overall less bebop, less vaudeville than its predecessors, in favor of an even freer approach. The stride piano recedes as a lead instrument in favor of a more lyrical, cool-jazz-like style, familiar from pianists like Wynton Kelly. In such moments, one senses the improvisational spirit with which "Regener Pappik Busch" recorded "Field of Lights" in just two days in Berlin's Tritonus Studio in the fall of 2024.

Sven Regener, trumpet
Ekki Busch, piano
Richard Pappik, drums

Sven Regener
wurde 1961 in Bremen geboren. Nach Bundeswehr und Zivildienst und einem Jahr in Hamburg zog er 1982 nach Berlin und spielte dort Trompete bei der Band Zatopek. 1985 gründete er mit anderen die Band Element of Crime, mit der er als Sänger, Trompeter und Rhythmusgitarrist bis heute 13 Studioalben veröffentlichte und über tausend Konzerte spielte. Im Jahre 2001 veröffentlichte er seinen ersten Roman, Herr Lehmann, der sich gleich zu einem ziemlichen Bestseller entwickelte. Es folgten die Romane Neue Vahr Süd (2004), Angulus Durus (2006, mit Germar Grimsen), Der kleine Bruder (2008) und Magical Mystery oder die Rückkehr des Karl Schmidt (2013). Mit Andreas Dorau schrieb er dessen Biografie Ärger mit der Unsterblichkeit (2015), mit Leander Haußmann drehte er den Film Hai-Alarm am Müggelsee und schrieb er das Theaterstück Die Danksager / Bunter Abend, das am 27. April 2017 am Berliner Ensemble uraufgeführt wird. Außerdem veröffentlichte er gesammelte Blogs unter dem Titel Meine Jahre mit Hamburg-Heiner.

Alle seine Romane sind auch von ihm selbst gelesen als Hörbücher erschienen.

Sven Regener lebt in Berlin, ist verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder.

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