QUICK GUIDE TO MARIO ROM'S INTERZONE
Wanna know what this band is about? Here is a “Quick Guide to Mario Rom’s INTERZONE (EPK)” that gives you a complete summary about everything you need to know in only 4 minutes!!
We are very very happy with the result of this beautiful video and want to send our special thanks to Emily Stewart (voice-over) and Peter Schönhardt/Atzgerei (animation/drawing). Enjoy!!
New Videos online!
“BLUE VELVET” in the desert and “DREAMS OF SEX & CRIME” live at Porgy & Bess, Vienna. Enjoy!
!!! VIDEO-SERIES OUT NOW !!!
THE LAST EPISODE IS OUT NOW. WATCH ALL EPISODES OF OUR NEW ONLINE-VIDEO-SERIES
“EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED” RIGHT HERE:
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>>> NEW ALBUM OUT NOW <<<
February 27, 2015 is the release-date for our new album “Everything is Permitted”. It will be available on Vinyl, CD and Download. The Vinyl is a 300-piece limited Edition with 180g heavyweight Vinyl including the full album as download as well as a very special surprise. We are incredibly excited about all this!
-> YOU CAN GET THE ALBUM HERE
MARIO ROM’S INTERZONE
EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED
Mario Rom – Trumpet
Lukas Kranzelbinder – Bass
Herbert Pirker – Drums
1. Rise of the Black Centipede
2. Pain & Sorrow
3. Shooting Wild Bill Edwards
4. Acrolein
5. Nova’s Revenge
6. Everything is Permitted
7. Bill Lee
8. Hans
9. Jazz is Disco Music
10. Blue Velvet
Released on Traumton Records, 2015
There were already a couple of articels released in the austrian newspaper discussing our new album:
www.derstandard.at/2000012160313/Mario-Roms-Interzone-Tu-was-du-willst-und-kling-gut
www.partytimer.at/event/773342/mario-roms-interzone
www.wienerzeitung.at/themen_channel/musik/cds/736294_Mario-Rom.html
We will also present the album live in the next couple of weeks! Here are the dates for march:
27.02 Café Museum, Passau (http://on.fb.me/1MQInv2)
28.02 Hotel “Die Traube”, Admont (http://on.fb.me/1vyaiuc)
03.03 Porgy & Bess, Vienna (http://on.fb.me/1Ar6Xxb)
10.03 RAJ, Klagenfurt (http://on.fb.me/1LCk94h)
11.03 Strandgut, Linz
12.03 Eremitage, Schwaz
13.03 Jazzarchitekt, Wiesbaden (http://on.fb.me/17xrJzV)
16.03 Izmir Jazzfestival, Turkey
17.03 ACF Istanbul, Turkey
Please also check www.mr-interzone.at/dates for updated concerts!
SOMETHING BIG COMING UP...
Big news for the coming weeks:
In 2015 we will not only release our new Album „Everything is Permitted“ on Traumton Records but also a 4-part Online-Video-Series under the same title. This series of music-videos was shot in Mexico City, New Orleans, Texas, Louisiana, Austria and Germany and is a unique project in the European Jazz Scene combining a continuing plot with non-dialogue, jazz-music-only videos.
For all infos please check out www.everythingispermitted.at
The first Episode of „Everything is Permitted“ will be premiered here on January 20, 2015.
The other Episodes will follow in 2-week-intervals on Feb 3, Feb 17 and the Season Final on Mar 3!
And here is the first Trailer
NEW RECORD OUT IN 2015!!
We are happy to announce that we finished the recording of our new album!
“EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED” will be released in February 2015!!
After some extended touring in Austria, Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, Mexico, Israel and Hungary in the last months we will now prepare everything for the big release next year! Thanks to everyone who came out to our concerts. We had a great time! This is a nice review from our concert at INNTöne Festival in June:
“…their flawless interaction breathes a vitality that leaves the audience begging for encores until the repertoire is exhausted. This is probably how immortality begins.“ (Passauer Neue Presse, LINK)
There will be lots of video-footage from our touring and rumors have it that there might be something like a short movie-series coming out as well. If you want to be updated about everything just send us a short mail: interzone@laubrecords.com and we will put you on our newsletter.
Meanwhile you can watch the first official video of our performance at Eurojazz Cenart Festival 2014 in Mexico City. “Lonely Woman” by Ornette Coleman is also featured on our last album “Nothing is true”, which is btw nearly SOLD OUT! There are about 23 copies left – so be quick!
Big thanks to Severin Koller for the great camera-action!
We wish you all a Happy New Year!
There will be a lot of possibilities to hear us live in 2014:
January 31 Jazz im Sägewerk, Bad Gastein
February 5 SPECIAL CONCERT >> INTERZONE EXTENDED<< Porgy & Bess, Vienna
February 6 Austrian Cultural Forum Rome, Italy
February 8 Kulturverein Gallnsteine, Steinbach, Oberösterreich
February 9 Saxstall Pohrsdorf, Germany
February 10 Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin, Germany
February 22 Jazzforum Mödling, Niederösterreich
February 25- MEXICO-TOUR 2014
March 02 (performing at EUROJazzFestival,…)
March 22 Jazz & More, Voitsberg, Steiermark
April 13 Jazzwerkstatt Graz
May 22 Stará pekarná, Brno, CZ
May 23 Na vecnosti, Znojmo, CZ
May 24 Frydek-Mistek, CZ
June 3 Open Loose, Vienna
June 6 Inntöne Jazzfestival, Diersbach
June 9 Strudelhofstiege, Vienna
more dates coming soon….
For further informations please visit the “Dates” page.
Looking forward!
INTERZONE PLAYS BURROUGHS in China
Between September 4 – 8 our new theatre-performance INTERZONE PLAYS BURROUGHS will be premiered at the Fringe Festival in Beijing and the International Youth Experimental Arts Festival in Haikou.
It features the actor and speech-artist Christian Reiner as well as the INTERZONE Band.
The performance is based on the work of American writer William S. Burroughs and draws its inspiration mainly from his groundbreaking novel „Naked Lunch“. In a mixture between theatre, concert, reading and video-art INTERZONE PLAYS BURROUGHS combines Burroughs’ highly associative literature with the heat and energy of improvised Music and Jazz.
Looking forward!
We’re finally presenting our debut album in Vienna!!!
Monday, May 27th – 8.00 pm
Planter’s Club (Zelinkagasse 4, 1010 Vienna)
ENTRANCE FREE!!!
Here’s a brand-new TRAILER:
Very very nice CD-review in “DIE ZEIT”:
BACK THAN IN TANGIER
“Just get out there and play.” A football trainer’s words to his team work just as well as a guiding principle for music. Do what you like, but do it well and do it differently every time. For instance Interzone, the trio led by 22-year-old Austrian trumpeter Mario Rom, just goes out there. And plays. Growly, gnarly, confident and nimble – a good formula. Time and again the interaction between bass, drums and trumpet reveals new layers: driving grooves and driven melody lines, references to 1960s jazz or the rhythms of Africa and the Caribbean, memories of pharmaceutically induced excesses, of tribulation and confusion, of journeys to musical worlds already long dead and forgotten by the time the three musicians first picked up their instruments.
Now, on the cover of Nothing Is True, they sit in the dimly lit chiaroscuro of Vienna’s Planter’s Club, itself a monument to colonial society. Three wild boys, marked by a life they couldn’t yet have lived, ready for anything. Mario Rom lights a match, making the center of the photograph a white point: Interzone is named for William S. Burroughs’ ecstatic convolution of prose, a work he completed during his time in Tangier, the brimming sensuality of which clearly served as a model for the trio. Burroughs’ milieu was the disturbed, rootless Tangier bohème of the 1950s; Mario Rom, the confidently propulsive bassist Lukas Kranzelbinder and drummer Herbert Pirker seize the chance offered by their youth and their distance from the epicenter of jazz: Nothing is true – literally, in this in-between world – but, it would seem, everything is permitted.
Recklessly and impetuously they break their trail, clearing away stylistic signposts, swinging, grooving, abruptly changing tempo; in short: playing, following wherever the energy leads them in the moment. Even Ornette Coleman’s bittersweet ballad “Lonely Woman” must bow to their whim in the end: Mario Rom and his comrades step on the gas, leave scratches and scars on the melody – and wrest from it, with this rough treatment, an undreamed-of power.
Stefan Hentz, DIE ZEIT, March 2013
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