DELBRUEGGE BAND

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Bernd Delbrügge - saxophone, vocals | Gert Kapo - piano | Gero Gellert - bass | Dirk Ferdinand - drums

The Delbruegge Band plays music for "Analogue Souls" - is that jazz? Blues? Soul? Film music? Cologne saxophonist Bernd Delbruegge places them "somewhere between Duke Ellington, Tom Waits and Clärchens Ballhaus" (with a dash of Edgar Wallace). The sound of the Delbruegge Band points far back into the past without ever sounding antiquated. Here, American music history is reflected in the bar of a German nightclub. A perfect melange of styles in extended film noir mode. Delbrügge and his bandmates Gert Kapo (keys), Gero Gellert (bass) and Dirk Ferdinand (drums) are great at creating grooves and don't keep their solo work on a low flame either. There are hardly any musical boundaries for this quartet: "Il Mio Topolino" could have come from a Fellini film, "Drunken Man ́s Boogaloo" is the perfect soundtrack for a last nightcap at the bar, and Edgar Wallace dances with the frog in the mask to "Hollerstein Waltz". Bernd Delbrügge wrote most of the tracks for "Analogue Souls" in 2020 on a park bench in Cologne's Vogelsang district, his temporary "corona stage" at the time. In the summer of 2021, the band recorded the album live in Dirk Baldringer's recording studio using analog tape technology from the 1970s. This is just like what we know from the heyday of legendary labels such as Blue Note, Motown or Stax, and you can hear that on the album. "Analogue Souls" has been released as a 180g vinyl pressing on Westpark Music and has received excellent press reviews.

Bernd Delbrügge
has already left a diverse and distinctive mark on the music history of his home city of Cologne, including as founder and band leader of the legendary "Soulcats". The Kölner Stadtanzeiger newspaper calls him a "soul man and multitasker". But above all, we have him to thank for this formidable band. He brought it to life, gathered these great musicians around him and "wrote the music" for the band's debut album.

Gert Kapo
comes from a family of Albanian musicians and studied classical piano as a 16-year-old child prodigy. And like many other classical musicians, at some point he discovered the world of jazz for himself. Today, Gert Kapo is a sought-after arranger, pianist and producer in the world of world music and jazz. Above all, however, he is a stylistically confident border crosser between these worlds and the very best pianist and organist this band could wish for.

Gero Gellert
studied bass at the Cologne University of Music. He has been the permanent bass player in the Cajun and folk band "Le Clou" since 1995. He works as an instrumental teacher and bassist for various national and international musical projects, but above all he is the groovekeeper on bass for the Delbruegge Band and always has just the right sound.

Dirk Ferdinand
studied jazz percussion at the Cologne University of Music. However, this has not prevented him from enjoying success in the world of Rhenish cheerfulness with the "Orchestra of Love". Bernd Delbrügge decided to give him a second chance at a life free of clapping marches, completely without 3/4 Schunkler. So now he sits behind the drums of the Delbruegge Band and everyone is happy!

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