ABOUT "RANDOM/CONTROL"

More than 20 instruments on stage, but just three musicians: That is "Random/Control". David Helbock, Outstanding Artist Award Winner in Austria, mainly plays on instruments with keys. Johannes Bär does all the brass, from trumpet to bassflügelhorn and tuba and Andreas Broger plays wind- instruments like saxophones, clarinets and flutes.

For their program, which was released as a CD on the renowned Label ACT Music, David Helbock got inspired by his favorite jazz-piano players and arranged their most famous sounds for this special line-up. Over the years „Random/Control“ has developed a really distinct sound. Presenting different raw material - Austrian folkmusic, original compositions and now the „Pianoplayer ́s Hits", the band always sounds like „Random/Control“ - a rollercoaster ride for the listerner's ear.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

David Helbock, born 1984 in Vorarlberg/Austria, started playing the piano at the age of six. He is a two-times award winner at the world-biggest jazz-piano solo competition in Montreux (CH) 2007 and 2010. In 2009 he had a big compositional project where he wrote one composition every day for a whole year.
He released more than 20 albums as a leader (the last five with the renown label ACT Music) and played concerts and festival all over the world.

Andreas Broger lives as a saxophonist, clarinetist and composer in Vienna and Vorarlberg and mainly plays jazz and improvised music. He was born in Bregenz in 1984 and he completed his classical saxophone studies at the University Mozarteum Salzburg. At the age of 17, Andreas Broger, Bartholomäus Natter and Johannes Bär laid the foundation for the founding of the "Holstuonarmusigbigbandclub", a formation that helped shape the style of "new folk music" in Austria for years and reached the Austrian single charts in 2010. In 2012 they won the Amadeus Music Award in the category "Song of the Year".

Johannes Bär was born in Vorarlberg in 1983, began his career by playing Austrian folk music with his father and siblings in the successful "Family Music Bär". He studied classical trumpet with Prof. Lothar Hilbrandt at the Vorarlberg State Conservatory in Feldkirch and later at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Hans Gansch. Later he concentrated more and more on the tuba as his main instrument. He too was, alongside Andreas Broger, part of the Austrian group HMBC, with which they had a No.2 hit in the Austrian pop charts, and plays as much with Austrian brass ensembles like Pro Brass, SoundInnBrass and Stella Brass.

Image © Hansjörg Helbock