New CD shows the diversity of the "music city of Geretsried"

Created: 08/14/2022, 20:00

By: Susanne Weiss

Proudly presenting the CD "Musikstadt Geretsried": (from left) Hans Ketelhut (culture officer of the city council), Anita Zwicknagl (head of the culture department in the city hall) and Fritz Diesenreither (musician and producer).

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After more than a year, the work is completed: a new CD with 26 songs ranging from brass band music to jazz shows the diversity of the "music city of Geretsried".

Geretsried – After more than a year of work, Hans Ketelhut had good news for the city council.

"Our CD is ready," announced the culture officer and musician at the last meeting before the summer break.

To be more precise, there are two CDs in the cover of the new album "Musikstadt Geretsried".

The first features eleven pieces of brass music, the second jazz and 15 modern songs.

City supports project with 6000 euros

In the spring of 2021, Ketelhut presented the idea of ​​re-collecting what the city has to offer musically in terms of groups and instruments, 30 years after the record "So Sounds Geretsried".

The culture committee promised the project a subsidy of a maximum of 6000 euros and the support of the cultural office.

Fritz Diesenreither, a producer with his own label "diesi musik" and a fellow musician of Ketelhut's, re-recorded some of it for the CD with his mobile recording studio in Geretsried.

The respective artists had already finished many things and made them available for the project.

Ketelhut, known as Bayern-Hans, is represented on the CD with two songs that he wrote and composed himself.

In "Geretsried Polka" and "Zu Gast in Geretsried" he pays tribute to the special and cosmopolitan city on the Isar.

The marching band Gelting contributed two marches (“Bozner Bergsteigermarsch” and “Freundschaftsklänge”).

Two pieces by the quartet of the traditional clarinet-making family Dörfler can also be heard (“The Russian” and “La Misma Pena”).

The Laurenzi-Buam also play the clarinets made in Geretsried in “Der Schneidige” and “Der den's ma tramt hat”.

Egerländer brass music should not be missing

The Gartenberger bunker brass music, which cultivates the Egerland songs ("Greetings from Egerland"), could not be missing either.

Also in this tradition are Ernst Hutter & Die Egerländer Musikanten with the trombonist Gerd Fink from Geretsried.

They praise Ernst Mosch as "a true legend".

The second CD continues in a colorfully mixed way.

A lot of typical jazz is offered there, for example by Titus Vollmer senior and junior, "Session 4 four" by Markus Kugler and "Cico's Jazz Orchestra" with former students of the Geretsrieder Gymnasium under the direction of Horia-Dinu Nicolaescu.

The "Picking Project" with Clemens Baumgartner plays jazz with classical guitar, Florian Sagner combines it with computer beats.

A more rocking number by singer-songwriter Willi Sommerwerk is also included ("No way too far").

Maxi Wagner sings the pop ballad "Mein Moment" and a hymn to the River Rats.

The bands “The DC Alcodas” with Sebastian Baumgartner and “The Stimulators” with Florian Sagner and Peter Schneider will also be there.

Geretsried is also a place of instrument making

The CD should be a testimony that Geretsried not only produces well-known musicians, but is also a place of instrument making.

In addition to the aforementioned clarinets, there are brass instruments by Buffet Crampon, formerly Wenzel Meinl, cylinder machines for brass instruments by Meinlschmidt on Hirschenweg and musical strings by Optima on Dieselweg.

“After the Second World War, the town of Geretsried was built up primarily by people who had been expelled from the Sudetenland.

Among them were many representatives from the music industry,” explains the inlay.

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The work was only released on CD

The work was only released on CD.

"I asked musicians that this type of presentation is still the most up-to-date," explained Ketelhut.

In some cases, however, the pieces are available directly from the participating musicians as a download.

Mayor Michael Müller was enthusiastic about the result.

"There is something for every taste in music."

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The new CD "Musikstadt Geretsried" is available for 15 euros from the cultural office of the city of Geretsried, contact by e-mail to kultur@geretsried.de

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