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Electronic Alternative Experimental Jazz is how the Munich band Ark Noir describes their sound, which embodies a prototype of post-modern improvisational music. The five-member band might seem like a classic jazz quintet at first glance, but it’s sound is anything but conventional. Its music is sometimes raw and somber, other times rich in depth and texture, and in this way Ark Noir creates its own soundtrack from hypnotic beats and cineastic sonic worlds that invite one to get lost in the Here and Now! Since the release of their debut album and it’s two remix albums, Ark Noir has performed throughout Europe at renowned festivals ( e.g Jazz Jamboree, Jazz Jantaar, Donaufestival, Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Aldige, Match & Fuse, Pančevački Jazz Festival ) and with their self- curated festival series TUNNEL VISIONS (named after their first work), the group has made a name for themselves throughout the German scene.

quotes:

"…it is an exceedingly approachable mix of mostly jazz complexity, club basses and electronics. It is reminiscent in its constant turmoil of Miles Davis’ sinister Dark-Magus-era, yet originally dimmed to apocalyptic ambient moments with moaning, alienated saxophone, underlaid with precipitous four-to-the-floor-beats or stretched out to a spherical, rainy trap-cave with vocals" (Rolling Stone Magazin (Germany), 4 of 5 stars – July 2019)

"…for the rhythms on their trip through the tunnel, without time or destination or future, saxophonist Moritz Stahl and bassist Robin Jermer were inspired by slightly psychedelic-tinted sounds from the dance floor. This is the dance of the apocalypse… Ark Noir is thus in every listening-regard an adventure… Here is a young working band, breaking away to conquer new frontiers. And wherever the tunnel ends, the longed-for light just might still be somewhere in the music itself." (NDR Jazz Album of the Week, July 15th, 2019)

"With the puzzling band name that reminds you of a futuristic spaceship, the young Munich band-collective around drummer Marco Dufner wanted to create a symbol for their driving, somber musical world. But the quintet Ark Noir doesn’t let itself be reduced to science fiction alone; much more, the musicians with their harshly rhythmic fusion are quite anchored in the present day. (Jazz thing, June/August 2019)