Q Recorded September 2001 + April 2002 Lothar Müller - Electric/Acoustic Guitars, Loops Andreas Henze - Bass Thomas Hempel - Drums Press "A star is born in Germany." ALIAS (Il Manifesto /Italy) "Trance music, Jazz-rock, and Fusion - this is the common denominator of the music of guitarist Lothar Mueller and his trio. It bubbles, grooves, and wah-wahs - or the music is simply moving softly and subliminally, spherical over long distances. Mueller is a highly gifted guitarist, acknowledged for making his guitar sing. His companions, bassist Andreas Henze and drummer Thomas Hempel, provide the appropriate transcendental soundscape in the background. The foreground is completely filled by the almost tangible guitar playing of Lothar Mueller. "Q" is a round, often melancholically swinging album with compositions made up of artistic beauty." JAZZPODIUM "…but Mueller is more universal, wants to contrast with the usual sound of the trio with structures full of melody and earthy beat. The multiple winner of the Jazzpodium Niedersachsen succeeds on his debut in an impressive sensitive and international manner." JAZZTHING "…Jazz becomes unpredictable. A superior musician." GITARRE & BASS "...Country-Phrases, Wah-Wah- and Slide-Guitars, whistling, anarchistic feedback. However beneath there are as a skeleton, the simple melodies of a perfect popsong." FAZ "A Jazz Quartet, one center: the guitar of Lothar Mueller. You can hear the godfathers to his singing guitar-playing: the melodic force of Santana, the anarchic and joyful energy of Hendrix, to the detached style of Abercrombie and Frisell. It is Jazz, but not purely: Mueller`s guitar sings away the borders of the genre. The compositions are journeys of sound to inner worlds that impress with density. The melodies stay simple in this process - similar to the Beatles, the big example for Mueller, - and this simplicity combined with it`s extravagant eruptions casts its spell on the listener. Hannover guitarist Lothar Mueller plays his instrument with the expression of a singer. Mueller`s music plays with Country and Rock, with sound and samples, grooves and emotions, borders are flowing and disappear. He steps into the unknown with his compositions and way of playing. Mueller talks in a musical language that is understood anywhere." ZDFtext » CD bestellen » Buy at iTunes » Fenster schliessen