Insomnia Brass Band - Live 2025

"What the Insomnia Brass Band conjures up on stage is captivating. What is striking is the almost provocative simplicity of the means - and how wonderfully these lead to music with a complex, even virtuoso feel when the musical building blocks are combined in such a varied, perfectly coordinated and clever way. No wonder the band received the German Jazz Award 2023."

(Andreas Pernpeintner, Süddeutsche Zeitung Online, concert review November 2023)

Lucks, Schlichting and Marien are the miniature version of a brass band: they transcend their compact size with a raw, exuberant sound that you would expect from a much larger ensemble. Juggling alternating roles between rhythm and melody, they traverse a beguiling landscape of free jazz, funk, punk rock and New Orleans brass band. Together, they open up their own pieces in all directions, driven by a mixture of improvisational drive and perfectly interlocking grooves.
Since 2017, the Insomnia Brass Band has performed numerous concerts in jazz clubs and at festivals, received several grants from the Musikfonds and the Berlin Senate and released two CDs on Tiger Moon Records. The third CD "Crooked Alligator" will be released in fall 2024.
In 2023, the Insomnia Brass Band was awarded the German Jazz Prize as "Band of the Year".