Jung/Jung - Trio Recordings (2016)

Some have to spend another lifetime looking for the ideal fellow musicians. Not an issue for the creative heads behind the trio JUNG//JUNG though: they're twin brothers and they apparently share the same DNA in terms of groove. Alex Jung plays a sixstring guitar, Heiko Jung plays a six-string bass. Two instruments, as different as they are alike. Two brothers, as identical as they are distinctive. On their latest output 'trio recordings' it becomes clearly audible that they have spent days in small, stuffy rehearsal coops and hours on stage heated by the bright spotlights. The music is full of harmony and full of tension, it cooks on full flame and simmers on reduced heat, it sounds like the good ol' days and like a departure into a new era. Two antipodal elements gravitating towards each other, grounded by their backing, drummer Matthias Gmelin. The trio line-up allows every instrument to breathe and they float and drift and flatter. And some of the unexpected key changes and odd pulses are to the uninitiated listener like a small, well-told joke between two twin brothers smiling knowingly…

Tracklist:

01. Latinesque
02. Pharao
03. L 43
04. Scrapple from the Apple
05. Fourscore
06. Like Someone in Love
07. Strange Beauty
08. Polkadots and Moonbeams
09. Alone Together
10. Mellow

Personnel:

Alex Jung - Guitars
Heiko Jung - Bass
Matthias Gmelin - Drums

Guests:
Tobias Meinhart - Sax (Track 9 "Fourscore")
Ernst Ströer - Percussion (Track 2 "Pharao")