In 1988, an attentive employee of a Zurich record distributor sent me a copy of a brand new LP by a "Jean-Paul Bourelly" called "Jungle Cowboy" (label JMT records) . She knew that I was always looking for new sounds.
In 1988, an attentive employee of a Zurich record distributor sent me a copy of a brand new LP by a "Jean-Paul Bourelly" called "Jungle Cowboy" (label JMT records) . She knew that I was always looking for new sounds.
This vinyl disc drew me straight from the beginning in the spell and came in the front row of my LP collection. Wow – Whattapower!
In a letter to JPB I mentioned that in my Speak Easy club "B-Flat I" (1988-89) I had always played the tune "hope that you find your way" on his LP before closing time. I invited him to "B-Flat II" at the exhibition street. He called me and wanted to visit me at B-Flat. My former girlfriend Marion Leiser picked him up by car after the factory concert brought him and Ntozake in tow to the club.
JPB: «… I met Beat Kennel around 1991. I was in Zurich to do a at the Rote Fabrik and at the reception I got a message that I was invited to an "after hour" place after the show. This place happened to be his B-flat club. It was a hole in the wall, directly across from the Park of the Living Dead (Platzspitz). I was jet-lagged and felt like I was in a surreal B-movie, zombies in the park and musicians in the club experimenting with electronics, drums and saxophone. Beat had realized a safe haven and created space for musicians in the sick part of the city. Being from New York, this scenario was not so unfamiliar to me, and I felt strangely at home.
Well, that night was the beginning of a long year- musical friendship to this day, which included my original NYC band "The Bluwave Bandits" performing at his "Fat Festival" in 94, as well as many late night conversations about music and listening to all sorts of rare groove artifacts». Thus, the projects listed here followed in collaboration with Beat.