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Quintasy: The End …

Happy new year to all. Wishing you all the best and good music and good health!

We unfortunately have to announce the following:

Due to creative differences as well as diverging life paths that would render a continued collaboration rather difficult for all concerned parties, Quintasy has decided to disband. After years of fruitful creative expression as a unit, it seems that the time has come for each member to follow a different fork in the road, in the hopes of fulfilling their artistic desires on their own, exploring new areas and rekindling the blaze of inspiration.

Thanks for your support over the years!

P.S.: Of course, our CD is still available. There are some copies left. You can get one by asking one of the bandmembers or via mail -> info [at] quintasy.lu

Bye Jérôme, Hi Max!

Unfortunately, Jérôme Fellerich, our saxophone & flute-player has left Quintasy some while ago because of lack of time. We have experienced a good time with this nice fellow and thank him very much for his ideas and influence which you can hear in our Quintasy-sound. We wish Jérôme good luck with his other projects and his family commitments.

So we have decided to not replace the saxophone for now and try something new. Quintasy now has a guitar player! Tataaaaaaa :-)

Max Cinus is a guitarist you can consider as autodidact. After learning the basics with Jean-Jacques Watgen, he has cut his own path. In the 1980s and 1990s, Max played with bands such as “Mr. Experience”, “Strange Brew”, “Human Bite”, “Supper’s Ready” and “Galileo” who have also been writing music for various plays of the theatre group “Namasté”. They collaborated with the poet and painter Paul Moutchen. In France, Max has toured with “IT& CO”, “Ac’Loustic” and “Jean-Paul Deguin”. He also plays the guitar for the Luxembourgish band Djuju.

Short portrait @ “Revue” magazine

New videos on YouTube

New videos from one of our recent gigs at Neumünster abbey are now online. They give you a little impression of our performance. That day was an extremely hot one on 10th April 2011, puhhh ;-)

Meeting Jeff Lorber & Victor Wooten

Quintasy Keyboarder Sacha had the chance to meet and greet Jazz-Fusion keyboard-legend Jeff Lorber after a concert they played at Iridium Jazz Club in New York City. Listen to Jeff’s last CD “Now is the Time”, it’s worth it!

The same week, the great Victor Wooten and Nate Watts (Stevie Wonder bassist) were giving a clinic at Sam Ash Music in New York. Victor illustrated his philosophy and many concepts, he’s also talking about in his DVDs. Cool guys :-)

New Concerts announced

We have added some new concert dates to our live-section: 12 May 2011 @ Soulkitchen (The Point, rue de Hollerich) and 14 May 2011 @ Streetfestival Differdange. More infos to be announced soon.

Watch 15 minutes of our live CD-Release Concert, 4th December 2010:

10 April 2011 @ Abbaye Neumünster

One of our next gigs is at Abbaye Neumünster, 10 April 2011. Here’s the page from the official JAIL programme. CU there.

Happy funky New Year

We wish you a funky happy New Year and we’ll meet at our first 2011 gig on 22nd January @ Café Plain Vanilla (Kockelscheuer). Of course we’re also always looking for venues to play. You can contact us via booking [at] quintasy.lu

Article about our release in “Journal” newspaper.

An article about our CD-Release was published in Luxembourgish Newspaper “Lëtzebuerger Journal” on 22nd December 2010.

Interview @ radio 100komma7
17th December 2010

Friday, 17th December 2010, our 30-minutes-interview with Mike Tock will be broadcast at radio 100komma7 in the “Rendez-Vous Backstage”-show. Tune in and listen to two of our songs: “Iceflowers” and “Daddy’s Debt”.

[Update] Listen here to it directly:

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Interview @ RTL radio, 3rd December 2010

We will be interviewed on RTL radio, Friday, 3rd December, just before we’re getting ready for our CD-Release Party. Tune in at 4 p.m.! :)

Quintasy CD-Release Concert, 3rd December 2010

We have been releasing our first CD and now, finally, we can also celebrate it. The release-gig will be on 3rd December 2010 at Café Steelway in Oberkorn (L). We will also have some special guests as supporting act: Irina Holzinger & Kim Mersch who will give us a taste of their music, a fusion of melancholic folk elements, combined with the rhythm and lightness of pop.

Right now we are still planning some things. Keep coming back for more details or connect to our social network, Facebook, MySpace.

An evening of fresh, funky, groovy flavours will be guaranteed :) CU

Irina Holzinger & Kim Mersch

Quintasy Album “Kick Off”, Out now.

We have been recording our first Album “Kick Off” end of 2009 and we are pleased to announce that it is available now.

Here below, you can listen to some samples. To get the full experience, you have several possibilities:

Either:

  • Buy the album at one of our gigs
  • Write us a mail to get it sent to you (check out our contact page for that)
  • If you like digital formats, you can buy at iTunes, Amazon MP3 (US Store) etc.
  • Or the best method is to buy it directly without any restrictions here from our site via our shop. And this for a really unique price ;)

1) Questions

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2) Iceflowers

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3) What Happens

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4) Magic Dark Eyes

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5) Daddy’s Debt

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6) Fantasy

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7) Fight

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Quintasy interviewed by Luxembourgish Newspaper “Quotidien”

Here is the link to our article on the “Quotidien” Webpage. Or you can download the article as PDF by clicking on the image below:

Pub Gig: 18th June 2010 in Schifflange

On 18th June, Quintasy played at Café “An der Schmëtt” in Schifflange, the new “Place to be” for musicians,  successor from the well-known “Café Old Castle”.

Festival: Quintasy @ Food for your Senses

Quintasy performed at the Food for your Senses-Festival on 22nd May 2010.
www.foodforyoursenses.eu