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Fat Time - Fox Farm Fusion (2007) (Oer Hollandsche Fusion)

Groovy electric contemporary jazz; improvisation with a power plug ............unmistakably funky

Fox Farm Fusion can be ordered via our official Web site; fattime.nl

Fat Time plays jazz rock. Not the elevator music without any bite that they call 'fusion'; no polished sounds, no stale formats, but an intensely jazzing, interactive, roaring, highly unpredictable instrumental potage du groove at 220 Volts - at least; Improvisation with a power plug. Contemporary, swinging compositions and grooves with their funky roots drenched in modern jazz. In short: FAT TIME! 

The second record is in the making. The follow-up of the self-titled debut album will hit the stores in March, 2007. An extensive tour through the Netherlands is being planned. Eight tracks, all original compositions by the band members, have been recorded at Leon's Farm Studio, Boekend. The record will appear on Inbetweens Records. 

Facts 
Soon after its 2002 launch, Fat Time could be heard on the better regional and national jazz stages. Audience, jazz aficionados, and music press went berserk and the hordes of fans grew rapidly. In the autumn of 2003, the band went into the studio to make a demo- and came out with an album. In 2004, Fat Time played the semi-finals of the Dutch Jazz Competition, the most important and prestigious Dutch jazz contest. Fat Time is a favorite regular on important jazz stages like Dizzy (Rotterdam), SJU (Utrecht), Buckshot (Groningen) and Casablanca (Amsterdam). 

The Band 
Pianist Mike Roelofs is heralded as one of the greatest young piano talents in the Dutch jazz scene. He studied jazz piano with Frank Giebels, Irv Rochlin and Bert van den Brink, and with his trio he won the Lions Jazz Prize as well as the Frazz Crossover Award. With Fat Time, groove-sorcerer Roelofs displays his monster piano chops on his Fender Rhodes, assisted by a box filled with freaky effects and an arsenal of analogue synths. 

Allard Gosens, also known as Henkus' guitarist, studied with Eef Albers. The gentlemen from the The Hague Conservatory had some reservations about the rock music brought forth by this Captain Speedfinger... Is acoustic jazz by definition better? We think: the more plugs, the better. Fat Time gets really Fat, only when Gosens starts spicing up his sophisticated jazz solos with merciless and ghastly rock. 

Bass player Marten Schulp is Fat Time's founder. His career as a professional sideman in pop and jazz music is long and succesful. He was the evil genius behind the infamous Frisian band Drie keer Belle & het Beest. With Fat Time, he plays the fretless exclusively. He is known and feared for his enormous numbers of effects pedals, which he uses for making the weirdest & most improbable bass sounds. 

In the person of Sjoerd Rutten, the most desired and apparently incompatible characteristics of The Drummer unite seamlessly. He is the man who can couple looseness to precision, pair dynamics with power, and combine virtuosity with expressiveness. For years he's been the favorite drummer of many. Rutten played at the North Sea Jazz Festival with the Searing Quartet. 

Lineup;
Allard Gosens - guitar 
Mike Roelofs - keys 
Marten Schulp - bass 
Sjoerd Rutten - drums

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