Torsten

Gottfried von der Goltz, first violin and conductor of the first-rate Freiburger Barockorchester comes back with a new album dedicated to the violin sonatas of a young - and already brilliant - Telemann. Rarely recorded, these works show a very surprising form as they allow the musician total freedom of expression and ornamentation. These features demonstrate also the unique creative inventiveness already in germ in Telemann’s music.

“Torsten In Queereteria” is a unique pop / musical theatre collaboration between Erasure singer Andy Bell, poet/playwright Barney Ashton-Bullock and musician Christopher Frost.

Torsten Goods learned with Mike Stern, John Scofield and Bireli Lagrene, he plays with Tony Lakatos, Johannes Enders, Olaf Polziehn, Martin Gjakonovski and Dejan Terzic: the young guitarist and singer Torsten Goods makes a score with his new CD, which has all chances to become very successful. His quick and easy guitar runs are a tribute to senior stars like George Benson, whose groovy sounds advanced to the cult of Soul Jazz in the sixties and seventies. Torsten Goods accompanies himself - his voice sounds expressive and a little smoky. His patners an this CD are the "Who's Who" of the German jazz scene…

"Torsten In Queereteria" is the third solo album by Andy Bell (Erasure) performing as alter-ego Torsten, a gender-fluid, semi-immortal who, having loved and lost many during an unnaturally elongated life, is left haunted by his lifetime of bittersweet memories. The CD comes with a richly illustrated lyric booklet. "Torsten In Queereteria" is a unique pop / musical theatre collaboration between Erasure singer Andy Bell, poet/playwright Barney Ashton-Bullock and musician Christopher Frost. This new album, three years in the making, is structured around four separate themed ‘Acts’ which deal with different aspects of both Torsten’s life story and his self-realisation; each song designed as if a postcard insight into a particular hot-spot of memory. Throughout, Bell's soulful performance carries the show through bawdy, touching, and weary passages that reflect Torsten's real age.