Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - Schneeweiss Und Rosenrot (2009)

Schneeweiss & Rosenrot had a great start into 2012: After taking home an award at the renowned Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis in March, they didn’t rest on their laurels but went straight back into the studio for two months, working on what was to become their third album. According to the band, the new long-player, entitled Pool, has created an even stronger bond between them – which is hardly surprising: For the first time the four musicians actually worked together on new material, starting each and every new song from scratch like a truly collaborative effort. Their motto: Anything goes. “Writing for the new album, we wanted to not only focus on what we can do in a live situation; instead we wanted to explore all the myriad possibilities a recording studio has to offer. This, however, also meant that some of the songs actually didn’t take on their final shape until we were in the studio, which is something we hadn’t done on previous albums,” Lucia Cadotsch explains. Adds Marc Lohr: “Producing this record allowed us to get even closer, both on a musical and on a personal level.” And the resulting full-length Pool, in turn, sounds even more diverse, more playful – and more produced. In short: It sounds even more like Schneeweiss & Rosenrot.

The four band members, originally hailing from Sweden, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland, first met in 2006 in Copenhagen, where they all shared apartments at some point or lived next door from each other, which ultimately led to forming Schneeweiss & Rosenrot – and guess what: the official band language was Danish at first. Six years and three albums later, all four band members are based in Berlin. It didn’t take long until vocalist and keyboard player Lucia Cadotsch (Switzerland), Johanna Borchert (Germany; piano/backing vocals), double-bass player Frans Petter Eldh (Sweden), and Marc Lohr (Luxembourg; drums, electronics) were celebrated as major new talents at various festivals. Their debut album Salt Crusted Dreams came out in 2009, followed by Pretty Frank, released in 2011.

Tracklist:
01. Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - Lillies In Fall
02. Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - Boogie No Woogie
03. Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - Hibernation
04. Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - Rise Up
05. Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - A Fish Decides To Go On Shore
06. Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - Marchenprintz
07. Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - Cykle
08. Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - Early Winternight
09. Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - This Cannot Go On Too Long
10. Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - Fearless Frogs
11. Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - Salt Crusted Dreams
12. Schneeweiss und Rosenrot - Olive / Little Bee=