The album "let it touch you" celebrates the 20th anniversary of the still active jam band "Café Drechsler" from Austria.
It is an acoustic adventure, a colourful bouquet of flowers with the scent of a long journey of this extraordinary as well as unique band from Austria. The three protagonists Ulrich Drechsler (saxophone), Oliver Steger (double bass) and Alex Deutsch (drums) are all artists who have been working internationally for decades in various formations as well as with their own individual projects. They seem to move light-footedly and weightlessly between genres with their own stylistic means of jamming and improvisation, without compromising or betraying their "trade mark sound and groove".
Remarkable this time compared to the three previous albums are the multitude of national and international guests, such as Martin Klein, "King Batson" and other great artists. They are all at home in very different genres and to a large extent also known on the international stage. What is unusual for the band is that this album can now be called a "real" album and not just a random stringing together of different tracks and songs.
Whether a crisp hip hop track like "touch it", 'electro flavours' and trance-like vocals on "contact trace", a live deep house track like "lucky bounce", the beautifully touching yet extraordinary ballad single "sense of coming" or a chanson like "tout perdu", the new album shows the diversity and variability of "Café Drechsler".
credits
released May 27, 2022
Ulrich Drechsler - saxophones
Oliver Steger - double bass
AleX Deutsch - drums
Valerie Sajdik - vocals
Edson Sean - vocals
"King" Batson - vocals, keyboards
Martin Klein - vocals, piano
Andi Fraentzl - vocals, electronic devices
Moritz Schmidt - vocals, keyboards, programming
Philipp Gstrein - vocals
Aljosha Kareem Pfeifer - vocals, guitar, programming
Christoph Bernewitz - guitar
Stephan Kondert - electric bass
Kriso Leinfellner - cover art
Max Parovsky - photo & video art
all songs recorded by Dieter Herndl @ Rikitik Studios - St. Andrä Wördern
except "touch it" and "wild jam" by David Piribauer @ the mushroom studios Pinkafeld
all songs mixed and mastered by Clive Martin @ chateau la grave, Bordeaux
and, assisted by AleX @ the mushroom studios, Pinkafeld