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Welcome to a new Jam In The Basement here in our nice cool JazzrockTV cellar.

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Yeah right. And today with someone who just

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has a new album on the market. Thorsten Praest with Ulf Stricker on drums

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and Slavek Semeniuk on bass. First-rate cast

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Great music! Will be a cool jam.

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We just recorded an album. My first solo album

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that comes out now, actually tomorrow on June 20th

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digital and on July 1st also physically.

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Usually I write the complete stuff totally ready. So at least that's always been the plan.

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Sometimes this is so that I have not yet fully written down the things

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but have been completed in the head. At the rehearsal we play

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things first so far where I have written down and then see what happens

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I say I thought it would be so and so and then

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sometimes things happen that haven't been expected

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But mostly I prepare the tracks and hand out the notes

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and count it off... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ...

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We recorded the record in my studio

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There is the possibility to remotely control the controlroom from the drumset

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I have a small computer I can use to do all of it.

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This saves to have somebody sitting there

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and reduces the production cost.

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And we do not have time pressure

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because we booked somebody that need to go at a specific time.

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We can just work as long as we want

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and can try things out. It was really the case that somebody

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had an idea, but I actually only the first part of it

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and we worked it out. We actually developed the songs in the studio.

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In the time we set ourself to record the album.

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And that's just always cool when

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there is nobody waiting for his spot.

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We could just play along on our own.

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And nobody was pushing us with a time clock.