ASK GONZALO

When everything is simple Sometimes things just fall into place. Like coming up with three gift ideas at a moment’s notice, finding trains that run on time, or writing a song that flows effortlessly. It was something like that for us, five musicians from Berlin, when we thought in autumn 2022: Let’s make music together! To our amazement, we discovered that we, our music, our crazy lives, and our passions fit perfectly together. What has emerged since then is music with the power to make people happy: Beautiful & wild. Familiar & unsettling. Complex & straightforward. Fine instrumentalists & virtuosic show-offs. Jazz. Although: Is it even jazz? Or indie? Or both? Or perhaps just a highly improvisational, undogmatic approach that blends diverse musical styles like jazz, dub, krautrock, and funk. Sometimes danceable, sometimes melancholic, sometimes like the soundtrack to a film, and at other times like a journey into the weightlessness of outer space. The band: Armando Carrillo Zanuy (Trumpet / ESP), Peter Herzau (Fender Rhodes / GER), Florian Scheffler (Bass / GER), Francisco P. Riccheri Serrano (Drums / ARG), Kota Maeda (Guitar / JAP) Important links: https://linktr.ee/askgonzalo