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01. Lukas Traxel - First Timer
02. Lukas Traxel - The Call
03. Lukas Traxel - Die Wahrscheinlichkeit
04. Lukas Traxel - Empty Seat
05. Lukas Traxel - Origami
06. Lukas Traxel - Nasty People
07. Lukas Traxel - Transience
08. Lukas Traxel - One-Eyed Daruma
ARTIST
TITLE
One-Eyed Daruma
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
WJCD 045CD WJCD 045CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/27/2023

2023 release. "Swiss artist Lukas Traxel releases his powerful debut album One-Eyed Daruma on We Jazz Records. The trio features Traxel on double bass, Otis Sandsjö on sax and Moritz Baumgärtner on drums. Compact, deep, and organic to the bone, Traxel and co.'s sound echoes the innovations of rhythmically driven avantgarde jazz while keeping things moving at all times. There's both drive and freedom to this sound. One-Eyed Daruma features eight new compositions by Traxel, who crafted the outline for the album while dealing with the loss of his father. The group came together after an open invitation from the Zurich jazz club Moods to present a new group. The trio of Traxel, Sandsjö and Baumgärtner creates a full, symphonic, and powerful body of sound despite the instrumentation without a harmony instrument. The trio functions as a collective where the boundaries between composition, melody, and accompaniment are in flux, while keeping the common goal of creating new music together in sight at all times. Traxel reports that after playing bass in various groups with guitar and/or piano, he wanted to create a counterpoint of sorts with his new group and specifically go about it with a more sparse setup. As One-Eyed Drama proves, the idea behind the trio dynamic is a strong one and the unit makes use of their extra space in creating evocative, moody, swinging creative jazz with a distinguishable fingerprint of its own. Traxel's musical influences include the American composer and singer Caroline Shaw, Swiss pianist Colin Vallon's trio, composer/singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane, and the trio albums of Jimmy Guiffre and Sonny Rollins."