PULSE & Tilo Weber

Drummers tend to be hard to miss. By contrast, Tilo Weber’s style is subtle. Yet he has a presence few other drummers can match. Time and again, he breaks new ground and refuses to be pigeonholed into a single style. He is open to all genres, from chamber music to free improvisation, electronic music, pop, hip-hop and swing. Since 2023, he has been collaborating closely with PULSE, a progressive ensemble that occasionally expands the classical string quartet line-up to include synthesizers and electronics. This allows musical ideas to flow freely across genre boundaries. Johannes Haase (violin), Susanne Zapf (violin), Yuko Hara (viola) and Jakob Nierenz (cello) commissioned three compositions from Weber, which they premiered together in December 2023 at the Sendesaal Bremen. One of these, the piece »rainbows«, was nominated for the German Jazz Prize in the Composition category in 2025. Tilo Weber had already won the German Jazz Prize for Arrangement of the Year in 2022. He combines open forms, pulsating Gnawa rhythms and innovative playing techniques to create a multi-layered sound. He expands his drumming with Indonesian gamelan timbres, blending them transparently with the string sounds. The first joint album by this unusual line-up will be released on the Boomslang Records label in October 2026.

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What the press says:

»What happens in Tilo Weber’s life also happens in his music. Every concert and every album in which he is involved is a journey through the abstract reality of life at the very highest emotional, conceptual and self-reflective level.«
Jury statement, German Jazz Prize 2022

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