Xing To

Currently available from Brambus Records:

Yellow

Tracks: Watch Your Step El Otono El Idiota El Monstrou Blanco Earth Air Bubbles Vampire Rumba De Las Papas Red Shoes

Xing To

Tracks: Zebra Five Elefants Oil Whale Atlantic Appetizer Captain Ahab Elemental Force U. P.

Martin Richard Lehner's band "Xing To" presented their debut CD "Xing To" in 1994 and surprised everyone with a wide expression of jazz, including some steel drums, which was very unusual for a Swiss jazz group. In the past three years, the band reduced the line and grew in qualitiy and expression. their jazz is still very accessible and has a much clearer line, in which Martin Richard Lehner's trombone is centered and in which the percussion has a much stronger place. The album has a sensitive latin touch, going back to the work of Cuban drummer Julio Barreto, and the percussionist Willy Kotoun.

The line-up on their latest recording is completed by pianist Marcel Schefer and bass player Rätus Flisch. The quintent, which has performed on innumerable jazz productions, occassionally with world-renowned artists, demonstrating Brambus' Records outstanding position in the field of "young" Swiss jazz of international top-quality. Martin Richard Lehner's second CD, "Yellow" is a very grown-up production that stands against all international top releases of the day.