Three is not too many - HENRIK FREISCHLADER now celebrates "NewBlues" in a trio after his short break

He really surprised the blues rock community when he disappeared from the scene for some time after his live album "Live 2014 - Night Train To Budapest Farewell Tour". The multi-instrumentalist, who had first come into focus ten years earlier with "The Blues" and who first came to guitar via his enthusiasm for the blues albums of Gary Moore, took a break. But it was clear that this could not be the final farewell to the music scene, because such a talent doesn't draw a line at the beginning of 30...

eclipsed: Withdrawal from resignation? Was it the famous time-out everyone needs, or did you already have the idea for the Henrik Freischlader Trio (HFT)?

Henrik Freischlader: After about ten years of constant touring and releasing my own albums as well as those I produced for my friend musicians for my label Cable Car Records, I realized how these processes became more and more routine. I simply felt in me the need for a pause to breathe deeply and come to rest. In my free time the wish matured to go "back to the roots" again, as I originally started at that time - and the idea for the trio was born.

eclipsed: What is for you, apart from your new musicians, the biggest difference to your projects up to "Budapest"?

Freischlader: I think that we have a great jam potential in the trio and even sometimes we don't know exactly what happens every evening at the concerts. That makes the whole thing exciting!

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