Projects
Culturessence
Bernroider’s “Culturessence” wraps music, world-music inspired rhythms, and spoken word with jazz lines and earthen lyrics. Originally known as “The Oulipians,” the group celebrated their concert debut at the legendary Blue Note in New York. The ensemble has since developed “Feelin’ Good” a musical tribute to international music sensation Nina Simone. The studio album featured international recording artist and saxophonist Donny McCaslin, bandleader of David Bowie’s last album “Blackstar”. The ensemble’s most recent album “Homebound” was released by Alessa Records and orchestrates the journey home and how “ we are all pushing forward in our trek home - that home that is here, within...beyond walls that hands build. That home beyond land and tide, beyond winking suns. It is the essence of who we are.”
The Oulipians
The Oulipians are a spellbinding New York City-based jazz-fusion ensemble developed by Austrian-born jazz drummer and composer Gernot Bernroider, featuring the genre-defying vocalist Chanda Rule featured in Cicily Janus' "The New Face of Jazz" (Billboard Books). The Oulipians had their much anticipated US debut at the renowned New York City Blue Note and a European debut at the Outreach Festival in Austria, where it received rave reviews to sold out shows as well as a European wide radio broadcast on ORF and WDR. The group has performed at venues such as Dizzy's Coca Cola, Brucknerhaus, Gmundedn Jazz Fest, The Zinc Bar, St. Peter’s All Nite Soul and the Brooklyn Lyceum.