Kurt Rosenwinkel Bandit65 – Searching the Continuum is out now!

October 11​, 2019 through Berlin-based independent music label Heartcore Records. Comprised of Kurt Rosenwinkel and Tim Motzer on guitar & electronics and Gintas Janusonis on drums, percussion, & electronics, the band embarks on deep sonic exploration replete with moments of pure and inspired improvisation.

Since its inception in 2014, Bandit65 has toured the USA, Europe and Japan; the trio’s latest record i​s an amalgam of musical highlights culled from these three years of intense live performance. The album showcases the trio at its most enlightened, sophisticated and adventurous state, with each master-player using the full spectrum of his sonic palette to effortlessly blend into a seamless stream of musical consciousness.

Buy the album here: https://heartcore-records.com/product/kurt-rosenwinkelng-the-continuum/

Embracing each concert as a unique moment unto itself, Rosenwinkel, Janusonis and Motzer opt to forego premeditated performance practice. For Bandit65, every show starts as a blank slate from which compositions arise and develop with free and spontaneous flow. The seven tracks on ​Searching the Continuum are journeys that unfold and spiral to otherworldly heights, evoking deep emotional resonances and abstract-yet-palpable moods. Rosenwinkel, Janusonis, and Motzer exhibit a rare and uncanny interconnectedness as Bandit 65. In releasing Searching the Continuum these maestros have given the world an album of ethereal beauty, sonic vistas that are truly a wonder to behold.

Heartcore Records Founder and CEO Kurt Rosenwinkel first heard Janusonis and Motzer play together in 2008. “​That’s when I had the idea to play with them,” he fondly remembers. “​Finally, we had a jam session in Philadelphia and Bandit65 was born. We discovered that the music was creating itself as the three of us improvised and it seemed like it was coming out fully formed. So that’s what we always do, we just listen, and explore, improvising together and find deep worlds of music.”

Bandit65 – Kurt Rosenwinkel/Tim Motzer/Gintas Janusonis/January 6th/Ruba Club/Ars Nova Workshop presents.

Please join us for a performance by the electrifying trio Bandit65, featuring the otherworldly guitar tandem of Kurt Rosenwinkel and Tim Motzer, rounded out by drummer Gintas Janusonis on January 6th, 2020 at the Ruba Club/Philly.

tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kurt-rosenwinkels-bandit65-tickets-84764678435

Bandit65 is a mesmerizing post-jazz sonic trio of breathtaking virtuosity, great power, boundless breadth, and astounding beauty. The trio explores the intersection of guitars, rhythms, electronics, soundscapes, experimentalism, psych-rock, free improvisation, and telepathic interplay. On a wide-open canvas, Bandit65 searches and pushes the envelope live and discovers captivating, mind-blowing multidimensional landscapes of sound in their improvisations.

Beside being two of the most inventive and adventurous guitar wizards in modern music, Rosenwinkel and Motzer both boast deep Philadelphia roots: Rosenwinkel is a native who was a member of the miraculous CAPA class that also included Christian McBride, Joey DeFrancesco, and members of The Roots; and Motzer has long called the city home, using it as a base for his expansive sonic explorations and all-encompassing collaborations.

“The closely worked textures and supple rhythms that infused this intriguing gig were conjured on the fly from two guitars, a drum kit and a battery of pedals and effects,” The London Financial Times wrote about a 2018 gig. “Each piece opened with a wash of electronica and evolved into a body-shaking groove, cued by a just-invented riff or a repeated beat. But though even the core of this multi-layered gig was left to chance, it had the clean lines and sense of order of pre-composed music.”

Rosenwinkel needs no introduction in jazz circles: one of the most influential musicians of his generation, he is a defining master, trailblazer, and preeminent international jazz guitarist-composer with a career spanning almost 25 years. With over 70 albums of credits, Motzer continues to traverse manifold territories in music and has developed a distinct textural guitar voice utilizing looping, bowing, electronics, and prepared techniques. Janusonis is a NYC-based, Grammy-nominated, internationally acclaimed drummer, composer, and producer who, over a 20+-year career, has worked with a diverse range of world-class artists, groups, and producers, including Angelique Kidjo, Branford Marsalis, Lee Scratch Perry, RZA, Wu-Tang Clan, Bill Laswell, David Murray, Bilal, and many more.

MONDAY, JANUARY 6
8:00PM

$20 General Admission

Ruba Club
416 Green Street
Philadelphia, PA

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TOUR DATES

2020

JANUARY
6 Ruba Club, Philadelphia/Ars Nova Workshop presents.

2019

SEPTEMBER
23 Ronnie Scott’s, London, UK
24 Ronnie Scott’s, London, UK
28 Sage Gateshead, Newcastle, UK
29 Band on the Wall, Manchester, UK

2018

JANUARY
11 Cotton Club, Tokyo, JP
12 Cotton Club, Tokyo, JP
13 Cotton Club, Tokyo, JP
15 Ronnie Scott’s, London, UK
16 Cheval Blanc, Schlitigheim, FR
18 Jazz Action, Valence, FR
19 Flagey, Brussels Jazz Festival, Brussels, BE
21 Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, DE

2017

FEBRUARY
7 Helsinki, Finland – G Live Lab
8 Stockholm, Sweden – Fasching
9 Goteberg, Sweden – Nefertiti
10 Copenhagen, Denmark – Jazzhus Montmartre
11 Copenhagen, Denmark – Jazzhus Montmartre

MAY
11 Liege, Belgium – Theatre de Liege
13 Madrid, Spain – Cafe Berlin
14 Barcelona, Spain – Jamboree Jazz Festival 8/10pm
16 Sevilla, Spain – Teatro de Lope de Vega
18 Innsbruck, Austria – Triebhaus
20 Bonn, Germany – Jazzfest Bonn, Haus der Geschichte

2016

May
3 Budapest, Budapest Jazz Club
5 Berlin, xJazz Festival
6 Milan, Blue Note Milan
7 Montpelier, KOA Jazz Festival
9 Vienna, Porgy & Bess
11 Prague, Jazz Dock

July
28 Valencia Jimmy Glass Jazz Club
29 Nigrán, Nigrán Jazz Festival
30 Cádiz, Festival Jazz Cádiz

August
3 Rome, Casa del Jazz Festival
4 Firenze, Plaza di Michaelangelo
5 Rossano Calbro, Chiostro di S. Bernardino, Peccorincino Jazz Festival
9 Viggiano-Potenza, Giardino Pubbluco, Jazz Festival
10 Trento, Lagarina Jazz Festival

September
8 Cambridge, Regatta Bar
9 Philadelphia, Chris Jazz Cafe
10 Philadelphia, Chris Jazz Cafe
16 Montreal, Upstairs Jazz
17 Brattleboro VT, Vermont Jazz Center
18 Los Angeles, Moss Theatre

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AUDIO

2014 Live Excerpts

2009 Bandit 65 Debut Album

ABOUT BANDIT65

KURT ROSENWINKEL – guitars, electronics
TIM MOTZER – guitars, guitar synth, electronics
GINTAS JANUSONIS – drums, percussion, circuit bent toys

BANDIT 65 is a mesmerizing post-jazz sonic trio of breathtaking virtuosity, great power, boundless breadth, and astounding beauty. Kurt Rosenwinkel, Tim Motzer, and Gintas Janusonis explore the intersection of guitars, rhythms, electronics, soundscapes, experimentalism, psych-rock, free improvisation, and telepathic interplay. Bandit 65 explores a wide open canvas, searching and pushing the envelope live and discovering captivating mind-blowing multidimensional landscapes of sound in their improvisations. Their debut album, Bandit 65, was mixed by Tyler McDiarmid at StadiumRed, Ornette Coleman’s former studio, in Harlem NYC. The album is available as a digital only release from 1krecordings.bandcamp.com.

KURT ROSENWINKEL

Kurt Rosenwinkel needs no introduction in jazz circles, a defining master, trailblazer, and preeminent international jazz guitarist/composer with a career spanning almost twenty-five years, who has recently released his latest album as a leader, Star of Jupiter. Kurt’s bio and discography is expansive with 10 albums as a leader including 2003’s Heartcore co-produced by Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, and 2009’s Standards Trio – Reflections, both on Verve. He’s collaborated with dynamic peers like Brad Mehldau, Brian Blade, Mark Turner, Joshua Redman, Chris Potter, Human Feel; and esteemed jazz elders like Joe Henderson, John Scofield, Paul Motian, Pharaoh Sanders, and Gary Burton. Rosenwinkel’s indelible mark in music is the consummation of being steeped in the rich and deep traditions of jazz, springing off of the shoulders of such vital underpinnings to elevate his own art to new heights. In 2013, he was invited and honored by Eric Clapton to play the Crossroads Guitar Festival at Madison Square Garden. Besides Clapton, he performed with UK guitar legend Allan Holdsworth. http://kurtrosenwinkel.com

TIM MOTZER

After 17 years of world touring, stunning collaborations, and over 70 albums of credits this innovative Philadelphia-based guitarist continues to traverse manifold territories in music and has developed a distinct textural guitar voice utilizing looping, bowing, electronics, and prepared techniques. He has been recognized by Prepared Guitar (Madrid, Spain) in their list of the top 100 modern guitarists worldwide. He has collaborated with musical luminaries: David Sylvian (Nine Horses), Burnt Friedman, Jaki Liebezeit (CAN), Ursula Rucker, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Pat Mastelotto, Markus Reuter and King Britt among many others. As a leader, his projects include Orion Tango, Goldbug, Instant Takemitsu, and Tim Motzer SOLO. He releases his genre-defying solo work and collaborations on his 1k Recordings imprint. He composes for film and video, is a composer/accompaniest for the University of the Arts and scores for choreographers in the world of modern dance. http://1krecordings.com

GINTAS JANUSONIS

Gintas Janusonis is a NYC based, Grammy nominated, internationally acclaimed drummer, composer, and producer who has worked with a diverse range of world class artists, groups, and producers during a 20-plus year career, including Angelique Kidjo, Branford Marsalis, Lee Scratch Perry, RZA, Wu-Tang Clan, Bill Laswell, David Murray, James Spaulding, Melvin Rhyne, Joe Blaney, Otis Clay, The Revelations, Ursula Rucker, Bilal and many more. His wide range of musical styles, groupings, and concepts are a reflection of the depth and breadth of his musical vocabulary and conception. His voice as a drummer and percussionist has been deeply informed by his work as a producer, composer, and recording engineer. Janusonis also explores the artistic possibilities of coalescing electronics with acoustic instruments, and sonic manipulations in his musical palate.  www.GintasJanusonis.com

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BANDIT 65 Worldwide Booking:

For US:
Eric Addeo
eric@theamiagency.com

For Europe:
Katherine McVicker
info@musicworksinternational.com

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