David Helbock & Fola Dada

Random/Control has been the defining project of Vorarlberg pianist David Helbock for many years. Together with Johannes Bär and Andreas Broger, the trio celebrated its 15th anniversary and played hundreds of concerts worldwide. After albums on Traumton and ACT Music, the band launches a new programme in 2025 - recorded during a live session at the Little Big Beat Studio in Liechtenstein.

The trio's trademark is instrumental variety: the three musicians bring more than 20 instruments to the stage. Broger switches between clarinet, saxophone and flute and occasionally sings. Bär handles tuba, trombone, trumpet, sousaphone, alphorn, didgeridoo, beatbox and drums - sometimes all at once. Helbock has composed many new pieces, contributes piano and percussion, and sets poems by William Blake, Emily Dickinson and others to music.

For the vocal side of these lyrical soundscapes, the trio is joined by Fola Dada - winner of the German Jazz Award 2022, whose voice moves between jazz, soul and pop. Together with Random/Control, wildness meets virtuosity and poetry meets energy.