The group met in Berlin in the fall of 2005. They came together organically over a common need. The desire to explore a next step conversion of an diasporic Omni music kind, led the members to each other. After a series of jams between guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly and drummer Marlon Browden, Bourelly brought in bass player Jonas Hammond. The result of that session made it obvious that the three would try and meet and between their other projects, continue to develop the concept jam. In the summer of 2006, without a CD released, the band was asked to appear at the Warsaw jazzfestival. 2007 proved to be a year of more momentum, with the group establishing a recording studio as well as a monthly appearance in the Berlin jazz club Atrane in the fall and a winter concert at Gagen Jazz im Stadion festival, Dortmund, at the Borussia stadium.
The 3Kings sound could be described many way, but here we will say its trash jazz of a sonically adventurous sort. 3kings nourishes its music with deep subtones to atmospheric highs, a sonic brew that conjures emotion through an inter-changeable format of song and improvisation.
Not wanting to be dependent on club and concert appearances alone in order to express their musical vision, in May 2008 the 3Kings set-up this myspace site. The site is dedicated as a net outlet for their most up to date recorded jams. Those sessions will be posted on the site in the near future. The group is set to tour in Europe in November and December. Stay tuned.
BJ Openhead
Jean Paul Bourelly..s aktuelle Formation heißt 3Kings. das Trio besteht aus Schlagzeuger Marlon Browden (ehemals mit Nora Jones und John Scotfield) und Bassist Jonas "Bibi" Hammond (ehemals mit Ali Hassan Kuban) und natürlich Bourellys kantiger Rhytmusgitarre.
Die Musik der 3Kings ist moderner Next Step Sound, impulsive rhythmische Ströme verleihen dem Verlangen Ausdruck, der afrikanischen Diaspora eine Stimme zu geben. Das offene Wesen dieser Musik gibt jedem der Musiker genug Raum, ihr den eigenen Klang und Atem einzuhauchen, denn von Bourelly..s Voodoo-Blusey avantgardistischer E-Gitarre über Hammonds nubischem Lo-Fi Bass zu Browdens polyrhythmischen Trash-Grooves verschmelzen die Energien dieser Impro-Virtuosen zu einem Klangkorridor, in dem altes Brauchtum, Mystik und Fortschritt gleichzeitig existieren.
Jazzy? Yes. Funky? Sure. Doch das hier fühlt sich an wie "Next Step Impulse Music", die ureigene Projektion ihres Sounds auf die Welt der Musik. Der nächste Schritt des Trios geht in den Cyberspace, direkt aus dem Studio und Labels JPgotmangos, wo die Band ihre perfomativen Aufnahmen veranstaltet und von dort aus sporadisch im Internet veröffentlicht.
