"Ein geiler Mix aus Strom und Luft! Macht Lebensfroh“
"A wicked mix of electricity and air! It makes you feel alive"
This is how the renowned musician/composer/arranger Leonhard Paul (Mnozil Brass, Wieder Gansch & Paul, etc. ) writes about the music of the fusion band Mashed Peas.
In 2016 the band was awarded the Joe Zawinul JazzPrize, at that time still under the name FunkXpress. This was followed by their first engagement on an international level, as opening act for Robert Glasper Experiment at the A to Jazz Festival in Sofia/Bulgaria.
With Slightly Different, Mashed Peas took the time to deliver a mature album, which was released as a cooperation between the labels Jazzit:Edition and Bingosound. The album offers an irresistible mixture of crisp, driving, fusion funk and of more contemporary beats
"Dieser Erbsen-Stampf hüpft einem vor Lebendigkeit fast vom (Platten-)Teller.“
"That peas stomping is so lively, it almost comes off your (turntable) plate."
(Club Unterfahrt München).
"A wicked mix of electricity and air! It makes you feel alive"
This is how the renowned musician/composer/arranger Leonhard Paul (Mnozil Brass, Wieder Gansch & Paul, etc. ) writes about the music of the fusion band Mashed Peas.
In 2016 the band was awarded the Joe Zawinul JazzPrize, at that time still under the name FunkXpress. This was followed by their first engagement on an international level, as opening act for Robert Glasper Experiment at the A to Jazz Festival in Sofia/Bulgaria.
With Slightly Different, Mashed Peas took the time to deliver a mature album, which was released as a cooperation between the labels Jazzit:Edition and Bingosound. The album offers an irresistible mixture of crisp, driving, fusion funk and of more contemporary beats
"Dieser Erbsen-Stampf hüpft einem vor Lebendigkeit fast vom (Platten-)Teller.“
"That peas stomping is so lively, it almost comes off your (turntable) plate."
(Club Unterfahrt München).
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PAUL WIDAUERSAXOPHONESPaul Widauer received his first music lessons on the recorder at the age of 5 from Peter Lackner at the Musikum Salzburg. From the age of nine, he took saxophone lessons with Robert Friedl and Kurt Gersdorf. With the trio "The Brass Bros" he has performed at the Staatspreisverleihung für Literatur, the Rene Marcic Prize, the European Newspaper Award in Vienna, the Festspieleröffnung Salzburg and the Winterfest Salzburg 2014 with Karl Merkatz. Since October 2016 he has been studying popular music with Martin Fuss at the MdW Vienna IGP, majoring in saxophone.
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MAXIMILIAN REHRLTRUMPET, SYNTHESIZERMaximilian Rehrl is a multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer and arranger from Surheim (Germany). He studied jazz & classical trumpet, composition and music theory at Mozarteum Salzburg and MdW Vienna. He is member of several bands and runs, together with his father, the Bingosound recording studios, based in Surheim.
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LENZI WIDAUERTRUMPETBorn in Salzburg/Austria.
Lorenz is currently studying classical trumpet (with Johann Plank) and jazz trumpet (with Lars Seniuk) in Vienna/Austria. He played/worked with Allen Vizzutti, Lungau Bigband, Chez Fría, Michael Abene, Scheibsta & die Buben, Philharmonie Salzburg, Lorenz Raab, Laura Zotti, SoundInnBrass, Felix Gutschi and more. |
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SEBASTIAN REHRLTROMBONEBorn in 2002 in Surheim, Germany.
He is member of the JSO Salzburg and the Bavarian Youth Orchestra, as well as several other classical or modern Ensembles. In 2012, 2015 and 2018, Sebastian got a 1st price at the “Jugend Musiziert” Solo competition at federal level in Germany. Since 2015, he is junior student with Wolfram Arndt at HMT Munich, studying classical Trombone. |
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MATTHIAS LEBOUCHERORGAN, SYNTHESIZER, SEABOARDBorn in France, Matthias is a classical and contemporary music pianist, composer, keyboarder and jazz player. He studied piano, chamber music, jazz, analysis, harmony, orchestration and composition in France (Pôle Supérieur Paris-Boulogne-Billancourt), and graduated his composition Master in Mozarteum Salzburg under Tristan Murail and Achim Bornhöft.
He is pianist and artistic director of the ensemble NAMES, based in Salzburg and dedicated to contemporary music. www.matthiasleboucher.weebly.com |
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LUKAS MOSERPIANO, SYNTHESIZERSLukas Moser was born in Salzburg, Austria in 1994. He started playing the piano, when he was 6 years old. At the age of 13 he was acceptet to study with Prof. Georg Steinschaden at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. Since then he has been studying there with various professors. In his classical work he is committed to chambermusic: together with his brother and his sister he founded the Mosertrio in 2016, since then they are playing concerts in Austria and Germany. 2017 they played as soloists of Beethovens Tripel-concerto with Philharmonie Salzburg.
He won in 2016 the Joe Zawinul price with the band Funkexpress (today Mashed Peas), which he founded with friends in highschool. With various bands he has been touring through Europe and played in locations like Porgy und Bess/Vienna, Unterfahrt München, Tallin Music Week, Atojazz Festival Sofia. He made recordings for radio and televison with Österreichischer Rundfunk und Servus TV. |
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RAFAEL TRUJILLOGUITARRafael Tonatiuh Trujillo Garduño, born 1994 in Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria, started learning various instruments including piano, drums and classical guitar at a very young age. At the age of sixteen he decided to focus on enhancing his skills in playing electric guitar. He enrolled at the Munich Guitar Institute where he graduated with distinction in late 2014. He had several private tutors and went to study jazz guitar at Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Berklee College of Music in Boston. Beside being a full member of progressive death metal band Obscura since 2015 and playing tours with the Panzerballett since 2017, he is mostly working as a session guitarist.
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LUKAS KRANJCBASSBorn in 1994 in Hallein (Austria), Lukas studied Electric bass and Double bass by Markus Peitli and Gernot Haslauer at the Salzburg Musikum, where he graduated his final Electric bass exam with excellent mention.
Lukas studies since 2016 at the university of music and Theater in Munich since 2016 by Patrick Scales, after his participation in his Jazzworkshop in Erlangen (Germany). In 2015 Lukas had lessons by the great Julian Crampton, Bassplayer from the funk and soulband Incognito. He is member of Mashed Peas since 2013, and they won together in 2016 the austrian Joe Zawinul jazzprice. |
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ROBERT SCHOOSLEITNERDRUMSRobert is a musician based out of Salzburg, Austria. He is a master in subtle balancing and pushing the elements of sound, groove, technique and emotion.
In his teenage years he has won several national prizes before he moved to New York to study at the world famous Drummers Collective. He holds a two year diploma at the New York based school and his energetic, tasteful playing combined with extraordinary versatility in different styles was heavily influenced and shaped by his intensive studies with the Collective's renown teachers. In late 2018 he joined forces with former Mashed Peas drummer Clemens Windtner to record their debut album before he became a full member of the band in 2019. He also plays and works as a composer, producer for the indie pop group Noyoco, works as a session/studio drummer and has played with Oz Noy, Jacob Sacks, Elias Stemeseder, Gary Versace, Jon Davis, Lincoln Goines, Evan Gregor and more. Robert endorses DW drums, Paiste cymbals and Remo drumheads. www.robertschoosleitner.com |