Red Hering
Biography Red Hering
Red Hering
is the six-member ensemble led by drummer Maximilian Hering from Mainz. Unconventional melodies over driving grooves, a sextet lineup with the human voice as part of the brass section, and the absence of stylistic norms: Red Hering achieves a veritable diversion from the classical modern jazz of the 21st century.
The debut album of the band founded in 2019 is titled "Butter bei die Fische", which, after pandemic-related delays, could finally be realized thanks to a scholarship from Deutscher Musikrat. It will be released in October 2024 as Vol. 105 in the Jazz Thing Next Generation series on Double Moon Records. In the ten original compositions by drummer and saxophonist, with two appearances by the Munich-based Paranormal String Quartet, all band members come into their own. Initiator Maximilian Hering sees his music as "European Jazz." While in his other projects, musicians from Spain often participate, Red Hering is a Dutch-German fusion.
Maximilian Hering
born in 1994, is a drummer and musician based in Cologne, Germany.
Maximilian has been playing the drums for most of his life: he got his first drum set at the age of 4 and took formal lessons since he was five. He has also been awarded the Laureate of Jugend Musiziert in 2014 and the Jugend Jazzt Rhineland-Palatinate und Hesse prizes in 2009, 2010 and 2014. During his early career, his teachers were René Creemers, Etienne Nillesen, David Xirgu, Simon Zimbardo, Ralf Schumacher, Jan Zelinka and Bernd Bott. Maximilian took part in masterclasses of i. a. Jeff Ballard, Martijn Vink, Pablo Held Trio, Mark Turner & Ethan Iverson, Elliot Zigmund, ICP Orchestra, Christian Lillinger, Jorge Rossy and Ralf Gustke. In 2019, he graduated at ArtEZ Conservatory in Arnhem with a Bachelor of Music degree.
On his musical path, Maximilian has worked with a wide variety of bands. In addition to a vast number of concerts all around Central Europe, he took part in about 20 album / EP productions (Universal, UBM Records, Klangraum Records) and appeared on German TV. With the Federal Youth Jazz Orchestra Phoenix Foundation he toured South Korea.
Maximilian composes for his bands Maximilian Hering Group, The Foaming Waves and Red Hering, but also for motion picture, like the short film Feindesland (2016) by Christine Wetzel and El Hamdu Lillah (2018) by Jonathan Kaiser. Furthermore, he regularly cooperates with the film music studio Klangraum. In 2022 he released his first album "Nostalgia" and later the EP "Max Hering & The Foaming Waves".
Maximilian explores the possibilities of working interdisciplinary and is passionate about the combination of dance with drums and sounds. Since 2021 he collaborates with dancers/choreographers Sabrina Gargano and Rafa Jagat (Elelei Company), lately in their new creation "Too Much".
