The Music

In the beginning it was the rough, loud, strange and unexpected that distinguished the music of Tuten & Blasen. Traces of these features can still be found, but they have been refined.

Today their music is a very unique blend of jazz, afro and latin elements. Warm and full brass sets by David Byrne, polyrhythmical "funeral music" by the Ewe from Ghana, percussive samba and afoxé sounds from Brazil and the Africa-inspired compositions by Hans Schneidermann, the founder of the band, make up the main part of the band´s program.

Tuten & Blasen plays in the streets and squares, in circus tents and concert halls - and in cinemas: film concerts to selected silent movies from the 1920s.

Listen:

• To Al Hadji Bai Konte wma
• Mr. Knott wma / mp3
• Guess who wma / mp3
• Jive Samba wma / mp3