Recorder, guitar, double bass – three wooden instruments, one sound that breaks boundaries. Block Party is acoustic rebellion: full of energy, irony and unbridled joy of playing. Wild Holz invites you to a musical state of emergency – quirky, rousing and absolutely danceable. Wooden rock at its finest!
The tracks are full of original ideas, cheeky stylistic breaks and surprising twists. Each piece testifies to an unbridled joy of playing and a twinkle in the eye that makes even the melancholic moments shine. When Knight Rider dances bhangra and Carmen wants to boogie – then it's Block Party. Wild, funny, wonderfully different.
They've been together for a quarter of a century, played over 2,000 concerts and released a total of 14 CDs: Wildes Holz are an exceptional phenomenon on the German music scene. Because they've achieved all this with, well, rather unusual instrumentation: guitar, double bass – and the humble recorder. Yes, exactly, that little torture device, the tinnitus simulator that we've all blown into at some point, not always to the delight of the audience. Who would have thought that you could actually make music with it? Tobias Reisige proves it impressively; it's not for nothing that he is now known as the ‘King of the Recorder’ (WAZ). And Wildes Holz don't care about genre boundaries. Rock, pop, jazz, classical, electronic – the more impossible a piece seems to be played on their wooden instruments, the more relish they take in proving the opposite!