Trestle Rec - Instrumental Music of All Genres

In the summer of 2019 Trestle Records was invited by artist and professor Oliver Kruse and programmer Susanne Scheidler to take up residence for one week in the Haus Für Musiker. Situated on The Rocket Station, just outside of Düsseldorf in the bucolic German countryside, we set to creating a recording environment to capture three improvised sessions taking place over three days. Our friend and local musician Thomas Klein (Sølyst, Kreidler) was invited to curate these sessions, who assembled a rich variety of players and styles. The sessions were engineered by Callum Sadler and Nick Siddall with Neil Cain filming and Nick Downes taking still photography. Ross Downes mostly sorted out the food and beer. We also owe a huge danke to our friend and collaborator artist Frauke Dannert who made all of this possible due to suggesting the whole idea in the first place and introducing us to the lovely team at Hombroich. And thanks also to the in-house tech Mark Spörel who looked after us and ran around finding everything we needed.