Schnellertollermeier
Their previous album X was featured in Wall Street Journal’s “12 Best Albums of 2015”. These graduates from Swiss and Scandinavian jazz schools merge jazz, minimalism and post-rock into a new form. Schnellertollermeier destroy boundaries of genres, ideas and expectations which Rob Mallows confirms in his review for London Jazz News when he says: “they certainly made an impression on me, in much the same way a wrecking ball makes an impression on the side of a building.” Schnellertollermeier are coming to smash music boundaries at Pohoda 2018, too.
20. February 2018
The complicated name merges band members’ last names. Schnellertollermeier is bassist Andi Schnellmann, guitarist Manuel Toller and drummer David Meier. After albums Holz (2008), Zorn einen ehmer üttert stem!! (2010) and X (2015), they released another excellent album – Rights – last year. The rock trio offers jazz that is not built on solos but on a band as a changing organism. They work with motifs like Cubists offering various perspectives of depicted figures, objects and stories all on the same canvas. Their three-piece organism focuses on precision and dynamics, harmony and energy. The power of how they perform their compositions is not just for Metheny and Stravinsky listeners. Their energy will also appeal to grunge and metal fans as confirmed by AllMusic’s decision to list album X in their “Favourite Metal Albums of 2015”. Schnellertollermeier are even faster and better live as Michal and Monika could see at the beginning of this year at Eurosonic. Michal describes their concert as follows: “It does not happen often that the majority of representatives from Slovakia meet in the first row at a concert during Eurosonic like we did at Schnellertollermeier gig. Apart from exceptional music, to see how musicians communicate with each other is an amazing experience on its own: sparks on stage; the band turns into an organism which flies unpredictably across music world. To join their music trips is indeed refreshing and we recommend Pohoda visitors to experience it as well.”