Fonk Is My Fate

This CD shows Rens Newland once again as a player (not special as a producer, arranger orchestrator or concept-maker): Guitaristic compositions, played 'live' in studio with his 'guitelectrio', bedded in very interesting lots of percussion. He presents a taste of his lifevision in spoken lyrics integrated into the music, spoken by the great coming-up rocksinger Lionel Lodge from Canada. We encounter wellknown names out of the Newland-Jive Music-Family: Fine work of Willi Langer, Oliver Gattringer, Martin Fuss, .... but also new connections were made: i.e. Stefan Maaß (from Germany) - world-percussion), Moses Afaenyi (from GHANA - african Percussion), Mani Obeya (african Vocals).... The style goes from intelligent 'worldmusic' up to hard-jazz-funk. A lot of pepper all together, fasten seatbelts, and there you go!! Rens Newland is, without a doubt, one of the most creative and productive jazz musicians within Austria. As a rule his productivity is not merely focused on playing his dear guitars, but to keep things interesting to others as to himself, he also indulges himself in composing, arranging and producing (or whatever publishing, running a record label or creating a serious bit of graphical designs through CD-cover production is being called these days). 1953 Born 1953 in Holland, Rens Newland started his musical carreer playing in and for several cross-over bands. Especially Scope was pioneering and successful (eventually it even made The Billboard Jazz Charts). The band toured in The Netherlands, but also in Germany. 1977 In 1977 he moved to Vienna (Austria), to play with the Austrian Radio (ORF) Big Band and the Erich Kleinschuster Sextet, performing with some European and American stars (concerts and broadcasting shows in Austria, Germany, Hungary & Switzerland). At this time he was also doing his first solo projects, like Electrio and 'Newland'. 1981 After the dissolution of the ORF Big Band (1981), he joined Ostinato, where he was able to unfold his talents in funky and jazz playing, as well as in writing for the horn section (he co-leaded with Thomas Böröcz). A series of albums came out and also the co-operation with Gina Charito started. The band did a lot of club and festival touring in Austria, Germany and Switzerland. 1991 In the years up to 1991 he still did a lot of featured playing, writing and producing for Austrian Radio, a.o. with the ORF Symphony Orchestra and The Moonlight Orchestra. In 1991 he co-produced the Vienna Big Band Machine album and together with Martin Fuss and Hans Salomon he founded the record label Jive Music. 1993 In 1993, he and Bumi Fian started the Enfant Terrible project with Thomas Lang, Willi Langer and Woody Scha- bata. They played at several festivals and in 1995 the first CD came out. 1996 In 1996 Rens presented the solo album (about) sexy Jazz with some of his musical friends like Joris Dudli and Herwig Gradischnig. Two other projects followed in '97: his first acoustic solo guitar album and the special septet Brassbabies & Rhythmkids, live and on CD, with Werner Feldgrill, Christian Maurer, Gerald Preinfalk and others. 1997 The brand new vibra- phone player of Enfant Terrible - Flip Phillip - turned out to be a congenial musical partner and with him Rens started 1997 the intellectual groove-jazz project Ya- cazu, a challenging band with various vocal soloists, like Cedric or Jacqueline Patricio. As a result of this interesting collaboration a CD was presented in the beginning of 1998. He