Hamburg, Germany
The
KBCS
New Album — Color Box — Out Now
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New Album — Color Box — Out Now
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Phô Sessions, Vol. 1
Album · 2019
Color Box
Album · 2021
I Wish You A World Of Happiness
Single · 2023 · with Shirley Turner
Produced by The KBCS
The KBCS feat. Nora Becker - I Wish You A World Of Happiness
The KBCS - Popsicles
The KBCS feat. BOVIY - Wasting All Your Lovin'
The KBCS & Olivier St. Louis - Pockets (Official Video)
Thomas D & The KBCS - SHOW (Studio Live Session)
Thomas D – Kurz zu mir (Official Video)
This bus is rollin' We're touring germany, austria and switzerland and as we're coming towards the end of the first leg, we have so much joy to share, en-joying ourselves, en-joying you great audiences and the energy we create together. "Des isch magic", to quote a great friend. Join the party, this tour only happens once in our lifetime :) great 📷: @mavimedia.content
Die Tage waren eisig diesen Winter, doch folgende Nachricht wärmte unsere Gemüter: die Legende Udo Lindenberg wird 80, dazu wird ein Tribute Album kredenzt und wir dürfen eine Version von Sonderzug nach Pankow beisteuern!! Woooohooooo! Hier ein kleiner Einblick in unsere winterliche Recording Session Thomas D - Sonderzug nach Pankow Danke @weloveudohq und @dolceritamusic ! ❤️❤️❤️❤️ produced by @thekbcs Drums: @lucaskochbeck Keys: @nicolas.boerger Guitar: @cologne_offiziell Bass: @danielstritzke featuring @hanschristianstephan on Trumpet @kimoeiserbeck on Sax mixed by @ralf_c_m
Let's pause for a minute and take this in: With a lot of gratitude, excitement, joy and maybe even a hint of pride, we can announce The birth of „Neocortex“. Out now This is our 5th album with genius Thomas D This is his first completely new solo album in 13 years. He is the music-loving and band-appreciating frontman who trusts us in finding the right vibe for his lyrics. We, The KBCS, produced and co-wrote it. We grow bonds like a family. He is a visionary and has something to share beyond the visible, is striving for making this world a better place (and is actually making a difference). Also, he is a great connoisseur of ginger shots, a thoughtful and experienced host at his country house and studio. A seasoned ice-bather. A trustworthy quad and sportscar driver. A person who will fix anything, get you anything and drive you 1.5hrs to cologne main station at 430AM. Also, we love recording in the country side and being close to the woods! This album contains stretched out instrumental parts. This album contains much love. This album features Reinhard Mey. We mean – come on!!!! Now go and do (y)ourselves a favor and listen to it. Let’s celebrate this! We’re on tour soon btw. Thanks to Oliver Glage, Dodo, Daniel Best, Nash, Gu, Bertil, Flo Mega, Fayzen, Ralf-Christian Mayer, HP Biggest thanks to brother Thomas D Pics by the great @jackmcbannon Cheers truly, The KBCS
happy release day to us and jazzanova! time to celebrate another landing from a different planet, maybe even another galaxy or some moght say universe. still, @jazzanova_berlin are our brothers so it is an honour to be included in their current release of remixes. enjoy this piece and have fun dancing into the weekend! ?
here, you see us enjoying ourselves and the enchanting company of the cheerful jena people. thanks jena @kulturarena @tdissoo 📹: @gu_our_label and @niskotto for joining us for a few shows 🎹
howdy people! next week, our last tour for 2024 begins with a phenomenal run of shows: münster @skaterspalace tue, 29th aschaffenburg @colos_saal_aschaffenburg wed 30th and really halloweeny on thu 31 in zürich: @jazznojazz festival we are looking forward to playing and partying with y'all!
The KBCS represent the coming together of four very uniquely gifted, but very complementary, musicians from Hamburg, Germany. Drummer Lucas Kochbeck spends much of his time obsessing about vintage recording equipment, tape machines and the like, whilst adding his talents to the recordings of retro-loving contemporaries such the Bacao Rhythm And Steel Band and the Colemine Records family. Keyboard wiz Nicolas Börger is very much an in-demand, sound-centric master of the blacks and whites, in the same way that guitarist Lars Coelln lends his skills to a myriad of works across the sonic spectrum. Completing the quartet, bottom end provider Daniel Stritzke adds a little freeform jazz and hip hop attitude to the mix, but even then you can find his bass holding things down on crossover hits galore.
Given their background, this project allows all four musicians a sense of creative freedom they perhaps don't find elsewhere in their musical 9 to 5. It's a natural evolution from being sidemen and session musicians to taking centre stage together and allowing themselves to be more experimental with their output. Mistakes are embraced, musical rabbit holes are explored, allowing emotion and spontaneity to shine through. This is music from the heart; a document of their coming together; and music that needs to be heard live!
Their debut album, released on Legere Recordings in 2019, was recorded almost by accident. The nature of their freestyle jam sessions meant that the foursome had recorded an LP without even realising it. The album, Pho Sessions Vol.1, soon caught the ear of German hip hop legend Thomas D of Die Fantastischen Vier (The Fantastic Four) having been recommended it by his son's piano teacher, and consequently a collaborative album will be released this summer.
2021 has indeed been a watershed year for the band. As well as the release with Thomas D, the quartet have signed to iconic Berlin based record label Sonar Kollektiv, with whom they'll be unleashing their sophomore album later in the year. The imprint gave the band not only ample enthusiasm, understanding and trust, but the inspiration and contacts required to add some exciting vocal talent to the mix. Sonar Kollektiv brought both J Lamotta and Olivier St. Louis to the table, to add to Lu Hill, Nneka and Vivie Ann who had been sourced by the band themselves.
After almost two years of intense jams and many remotely recorded vocal sessions, due to the pandemic, the new album is finally here — entitled Color Box, it will be released in November 2021.
Booking: daniel@best-works.com — Daniel Best
Management: management@thekbcs.com — Oliver Glage
