After the success of the production Deuxième Bureau (JHM 205) by Georg Ruby & Michel Pilz, the unfortunately deceased Luxembourg master of the bass clarinet, Georg Ruby, one of the most varied pianists in this country, has implemented another project that is characterized by free improvisation. Ruby has put together a trio including Saarbrücken drummer Daniel Weber (Georg Ruby VILLAGE ZONE: JHM 262 and 279) saxophonist and synthesizer artist Andreas Steffens from Erkelenz. In the spontaneous music of The Morenco Project, which was created without any structural guidelines, the three musicians prove how varied improvisational music can be. This is especially true when played by seasoned jazz musicians who value the structures of new music, grooves, as well as traces of traditional jazz standards.

The trio Ruby/Weber/Steffens develops its motifs, rhythms and structures in a flowing interaction. Without following fixed forms, harmonics or specific tempos, sounds and grooves arise purely in the moment of their creation. They work with various sound alienations: prepared piano with pebbles, magnets, rubber material, and percussion utensils such as strings, skins, and metal cymbals. Andreas Steffens' saxophone with a modular synthesizer and oscillators, tape loops and feedback creates a color that is extremely complex, energetic and versatile. The trialogues of The Morenco Project continually give rise to new, exciting improvisational impulses, sometimes subtle, sometimess expansive. But the structure of the sound continually transforms it in unexpected ways.

Georg Ruby is on the move: as a solo pianist, with his trio VILLAGE ZONE and as head of the Cologne Blue Art Orchestra and has been running the label JazzHausMusik for many years. Daniel Weber is represented at JHM with, among other things, his solo production Dramatis Personae (JHM 277) and his radio play Wege ins Innen (engl.: Ways into the Interior) (JHM 315). Andreas Steffens played with musicians such as Branford Marsalis, Steve Coleman and Bob Berg and is involved in the independent Dutch jazz scene around the Bim Huis Amsterdam.