![]() ![]() Eighteen musicians feels like a lot of personalities to have to control… ![]() OL: First, I asked Monika to describe how a big band works. ![]() "Avant-Pop-Math-Jazz-Experimental Prog" is how they accurately describe themselves, and on their latest album, the epic Witchy Activities and the Maple Death, they step it up a few gears and have created something genuinely astounding. Unless of course you take a flamethrower to that and reinvent the big band in your own image for the 21st Century, which is exactly what Monika Roscher’s eighteen strong Big Band have done. ![]() That’s a vast array of musical talents that should be able to do just about anything, yet the concept of a Big Band is forever tied down by the ghosts of Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington and all those long gone jazz and swing bands from the past. There is something quite special about the sound of a Big Band. I never think about how the audience should react to us." Monika Roscher "I like to be between chairs, that's how we say it in German, like one foot between the chair, and no chair. ![]()
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