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‘Go East’ is a Big Band jazz funk tune written by Stefan Redtenbacher. Inspired by Ennio Morricone’s soundtrack for Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ and Jaco Pastorius’ ‘Word of Mouth’ Big Band – it has several ‘mini’ movements and features the double bass (Bruce Gertz) and electric bass (Stefan Redtenbacher) – both in accompanying and solo roles.
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I’m super excited and proud about the latest Funkestra single ‘Slipped Biscuit’ featuring Steely Dan drummer Keith Carlock and Boston saxophone player Tucker Antell. Totally in love with Tucker’s fills and solo and Keith’s groove drum solo at the tag of the tune. In words of ‘Captain Autumn’ Andrew Goodwin: “Continuing his recent trend of…
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?The Masterlink sessions? are a joint venture of James Welch (MLP studio) and Stefan Redtenbacher (Redtenbacher?s Funkestra) to strengthen the community of creative and open-minded musicians who love Funk, Soul, Blues and Jazz.
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‘Jump Up’ is another high-energy and unalloyed Funk release by Redtenbacher’s Funkestra, best-known for their bass driven original (Jazz) Funk penned by Stefan Redtenbacher. Francesco Mendolia (Incognito) is shining with a high intensity drum performance full of vigor inspiring solo flights by Dave Limina (Hammond) and Tucker Antell (Sax).
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Any Funk music lover worth their salt will know the tune ?The Chicken?. Written by former musical director and tenor saxophone player Pee Wee Ellis and lifted to further heights by legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius, ?The Chicken? remains a classic and a favorite at jam sessions and impromptu music at get-togethers. Possibly needless to say, but I always loved this funky opus.
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From the Quincy Jones documentary to the release of ‘Part of Me’, ‘The Vinyl Collection’ (digital masters) and ‘Feed The Chicken’, as well as or UPCOMING gig at the Colchester Arts Center to the Masterlink Sessions…all in this blog. And yes, an exclusive 50% off on Bandcamp with ‘vinylmasters’ discount code for the subscribers to our mailing list!
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Brand-new releases, tales from the road, upcoming gigs and what’s on the drawing board for the spring? All in here in this August to October round up blog from Stefan’s adventures in Funkland.
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Traditionally Mid-June to Mid-July is wonderfully full on and this year has been no exception. After the whole GDPR ?marlarky? I?m writing to you, a much smaller group of subscribers to my ?adventures in funk land? newsletter. For those of you who decided to opt back in I hope you?ll find my adventure enticing enough to stay on and read about what I?m up to. Thank you for your continued support and interest!
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Totally excited to release our third single with vocalist Helena May. It was great fun to put our own spin onto Ed Sheeran’s mega hit ‘Shape of You’, originally inspired by TLC’s ‘No Scrubs’
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Strudel Funkateers meet bushy-tailed soulstress Helena May, funkifying this pop classic by Britney Spears.
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I’m so happy that the vinyl LP has finally come together and people seem to really dig the sounds. Jump over to my Funkstore on this site if you want to order your copy. Currently it is only available from me direct and the Musikladen in Salzburg Austria (talk to Thomas Schmidt).
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Our recent trip to Boston was marvelously good fun! Can’t wait to play Dave Limina’s solo record to you!
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