Carl Oesterhelt & Johannes Enders - Divertimento Fur Tenorsaxophon und Kleines Endemble

Really it's a shame to give an album containing so much black magic such a mundane title. A title which is reminiscent of serious music - a category to which one certainly could allocate this project. For the first twenty seconds that is. And from time to time throughout the course of the record. In the end one must resign oneself to the fact that this project, in its entirety, defies any classification. For that would be like trying to describe
intuition, telekinesis or necromancy empirically. For Oesterhelt and Enders have created a hybrid out of the spirit of the new Vienna school of composed music and a kind of sultry jungle jazz. Imagine the Alban Berg Quartet playing exotica, the two guys from Weilheim have taken voodoo-percussion played on maracas and calabash as the driving pulse of their music. Their suggestive energy runs through the sublime string arrangements and their wickedness is ever present in the dark saxophone licks.  This music walks a fine line between sleepy lounge-music and neo-classical. And so it unfolds its narcotically bewitching effect. Carl Oesterhelt (Tied & Tickled Trio, FSK, Carlofashion) and the saxophonist Johannes Enders (Tied & Tickled Trio, Scalesenders, Triotope) belong to the first generation of the so-called Weilheim-Scene

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