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”Day of Percussion 2000” – Manchester
   ”The highlight of the day is the return of Europe’s Latin master Birger Sulsbrück. Never before has the philosophy of Cuban music been summed up so succincly or hilariously than here. He has the packed house clapping clave, dancing salsa and singing Spanish verse, learning by doing and experiencing rather than by locking oneself away in a practice room with drum-minus-one tapes and the ubiquitous Afro-Cuban instruction book. Sulsbrück conveys so convincingly the primal relationships between life and music, the sexual innuendoes and the passion that makes salsa so intoxicating. It’s quite fitting, then, that the evening belongs to this superb musician, his congas, his percussion ensemble of RNCM students and the Royal Northern Big Band, driving out Tito Puente arrangements that bring on cheers of delight from the packed audience.”
RHYTHM, Jim Bernardin. May, 2000

“World to World Percussion Festival” – Lund, Sweden
..”Danskeren Birger Sulsbrück er Latinspecialist og musikkomiker. Med alle hans vanvittige lyde og effekter er han i klasse med Viktor Borge.”
SYDSVENSKA DAGBLADET, Alexander Agrell, 1986

“Concert with Dave Hassell and Apitos latin jazz band”
… “energised by the dynamic and varied playing of guest conga master Birger Sulsbrück, a Danish spitfire of a musician who, despite his Scandinavian provenance, has become a world leader in the latin idom.”
MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS, Chris Lee.  January 25, 1993

“He made an eminent work in Venice and had everyone singing: “Vivere i ritmi” (“Long live the rhythm”) and had a full house concert at Teatro Lux.”
CITTA MUSICA – “LE Percussioni”. Venice, Italy. 1982

“Trondheim Latin Festival” – januar 2002
… “Enda mer imponerende fredag kveld var kanskje Trondheim Jazzorkester, som under danske Birger Sulsbrücks ledelse fikk det til å svinge voldsomt i et heftig salsarepertoar”  …
Trygve Lundemo. 28.01.2002  

”Voss Jazz Festival” – marts 1982
” … det ble en knall-suksess med tre stappfulle klubbkvelder” … ”Den danske congaspilleren Sulsbrück sto etter sigende på tolv timer daglig hele uka med å instruere i afro/kubanske rytmer og å øve inn repertoaret  … Resultatet ble en grundig og stram presentasjon av Salsa-musikken slik den spilles på Cuba … og nå altså også på Voss.” …
DAGBLADET, Marit Tovsen. Norway March 22, 1982

… “Salsaen ”kom til Noreg” i form av Vossajazz 82, og eit seminar som vart skipa til med profesjonelle musikarar, der ein mann ved namm Birger Sulsbrück var leiar for det heile. Resultatet og responsen var overveldande på alle frontar, og stemningen var høg både på podiet og blandt tilhøyrane.” …
DAG og TID, Karl Seglem. Norway, March 10, 1983

Presseomtale af

“CONGAS • TUMBADORAS – Your basic conga repertoire”

… ”It’s a book with an extraordinary importance. Here we find all the movements of the left and the right hand. Each movement that we see in the photos is a true movement and it indicates the real rhythms of the percussionists. Percussion with its various languages is something difficult to understand, but here you will. The truth opens its ways by itself, and there will be nobody to stop it.   ¡AUCH!”
TATA GÜINES  “El Tumbero Mayor”, Havana, March 2001

”Shed any attitude about latitude! Although the North Sea is a long way from the Caribbean, this outstanding conga instruction book/CD package from Denmark is very much in touch with the tropical pulse”. ”Sulsbrück’s thorough instruction on conga strokes and technique is especially strong. The photos of ink-stained hands are a clever device for portraying the portions of the hands used in specific strokes”. ”Though the emphasis is on Cuban music, samba, jazz, salsa variations, fusion, and rock patterns are also offered. It’s up-to-date, hip, and thick with info. How do you say ”caliente” in Danish?”
MODERN DRUMMER MAGAZINE, Jeff Potter, USA, April, 2000

“Hola Curly! oh man, I just got your book in the post, thank you so much, I am very happy to have it. I have looked it over and it looks great! Nice explanations pictures, etc. A very helpful book for students. Congratulations … I also love all the other side notes and historical things also. Nice listing for the names of the drums in different types of rhythms in different parts for the island. A job well done  …  I will pass the word around to my students also. I wish you all the best of luck my friend and i hope someday to be able to play together with you,  Peace,”
LUIS CONTE, June 6. 2009

Go-ba-ging!
“Vil du lære at blive en god congaspiller? Her er bogen”
…  “igen har Birger Sulsbrück med sin kærlighed og respekt for musikken iført sig den gule førertrøje og lagt hele feltet bag sig”. …”Bogen opleves næsten som én lang spændende privat lektion, med den erfarne og levende Sulsbrück som personlig tutor”. Illustrationerne er meget informative”. …
“Den afslappede modenhed som præger bogen, for eksempel omkring begreber som “clave-terrosime” og “fusion”, er en befrielse for et ellers traditionstungt musikmiljø. Forfatterens “fonetiske” sprog – for eksempel go-ba-ging! – er langt sjovere og mere musikalsk end en-og-så-to. Her er man i stue med en virkelig erfaren underviser. Hvornår skal jeg stoppe min rosentale? Der er så mange gode sider af ‘Congas – Tumadoras’.
Sikke et held, at storken dumpede Krølle af på Fyn og ikke fløj ham direkte til Cuba!
DJEMBE, Flemming Nilsson. Januar-marts 2000.

“This book is the product of a high educational level, is recommendable for all percussionist. The book will help you to acquire knowledge from the authentic roots of the Cuban percussion and shows its application on every Latin rhythmic section. Birger is an untiring researcher and has great knowledge of percussion instruments. A deep knowledge shows trough in his books which are capable of attracting the people who are really interested in Latin music.”
LUIS ABREU member of “Los Papines”, Havana, July 2002

… ” I have never  found a book that I  felt would be simple yet direct enough …”
”Now however, that’s all changed; and I’m looking forward to really intelligent and appropriate conga techniques being exhibited as a result of this wonderful book!
”In short, this is a really admirable work that is so well conceived and produced that I am very frustrated that it wasn’t around years ago. If you use congas in your ensemble, it would make all the sense in the world to own this highly enlightening and richly helpful book. Very impressive!
JAZZ EDUCATORS JOURNAL, Dr. Lee Bash.May, 2000.

“Birger Sulsbrück has been coming to Cuba for many years now. He has learned much about Cuban music from our great Masters, and has picked up an enormous amount of information on Cuban percussion rhythms and musical instruments. All this information is combined with great skills as teacher and all that put together has made possible a most instructive and beautiful book “Congas • Tumbadoras”.
A very practical method for learning to play congas is put forth by Sulsbrück, in a easy understandable system. I am sure it wasn’t so easy for him to learn from our teachers. Perhaps that is the clue to the success of his book. A perfect bridge between the authentic Cuban traditions and persons who, not having the time he used for research in Cuba, now want to explore them deeply to be able to use knowledge accumulated during hundreds of years in this very musical Island”.
Dr. Prof. Olavo Alén Rodriguez, Center for Investigation and Development of Cuban Music. (CIDMUC), Havana. July 2002.

Presseomtale af: (danske, engelsk og tysk)

“Latinamerikansk Percussion – Rytmer og rytmeinstrumenter fra Cuba og Brasilien”   

To Birger –
The talent of his knowledge has made him write a wonderfull book.
Your boy
TITO PUENTE “84”

… “What could a Danish percussionist named Birger Sulsbrück possibly offer us on the subject of Latin American instruments of Cuba and Brasil? Well the answer is: plenty!”
… “The beauty of this book lies in the answers”
… “This package is worth every cent. From Denmark to Latin America, Birger Sulsbrück has truly bridged the ocean with this one”.
MODERN DRUMMER MAGAZINE, Mark Hurley. USA, July, 1984.

…”It is Super-Professional all the way. It is excelent and should be part of every drummers libary. I recommend it 100%, in fact, I’ll do a little study work on it myself.
LOUIE BELLSON, USA, New York, 1986

…”Birger Sulsbrück is a master percussionist and a great instructor”.
The book Latin American Percussion … is without a doubt the most thorough and clearly book and tape combination on this subject available”.
ED THIGPEN, Copenhagen 1983.

” … en veltilrettelagt, pædagogisk og lettilgængelig lærebog i cubanske og brasilianske rytmer, plus calypso fra Trinidad. Forfatteren er Danmarks førende percussionsmusiker, Birger “Krølle” Sulsbrück, hvis musikalske kunnen, pædagogiske erfaring og kærlighed til den afro-latinamerikanske musik er blevet kondenseret i denne på mange måder forbilledlige bog.
Latinamerikansk Percussion er den bedste lærebog inden for afro-latinamerikansk musik, jeg i tidens løb er stødt på. Det skyldes først og fremmest, at den er pædagogisk og klar i sin fremstilling og gør meget for at hjælpe eleven på vej, bl.a. med små praktiske detaljer, som lærebøger ellers ofte overser, og som kan tage pippet fra mange.
… et tiltrængt plus i dansk musikundervisning.”
INFORMATION, Jens Lohmann, 1981.

“Dansk latin-bibel …   dækker et stort hul i den danske muld. Han har gjort det letfatteligt, grundigt og indbydende…
Det  er efterprøvede systemer fra to af verdens højest udviklede rytmekulturer, som bliver gjort tilgængelige her. Derfor er der også en masse at hente for musikere, som ikke nødvendigvis er percussionister, men søger inspiration til deres solo- og rytmearbejde. Ligemeget om man kan spille på strenge, keyboards eller blæs, kan man få ideer til riffs og nye fraseringsmåder ved at studere bogen og båndene. Kort sagt: Køb den!”
MM, Flemming Quist Møller. 1980.

…”It is the best book I have seen on this subject.”
JOHN BECK, Professor of Percussion, Eastman School of Music, USA, January 1987
To Birger
A pleasure being associated with you, thanks for a great book.
Your friend
Johnny Rodriguez, New York, 1984

Dear friend Birger Sulsbrück
Reading your wonderfull book about the Latin American Percussion, I think that it is very interesting for all the people that want to know about the Latin rhythms.
All the players in my country liked very much in the progressive way that you made the method.  …
Sincerely yours GUILLERMO BARRETTO, La Habana, Cuba, 1983.

…”This publication should be owned by all percussionists – both novice and experienced players – having an interest in teaching or playing Latin percussion instruments”.
…”The result of all his work on this object is an invaluable contribution on the rhythms”.
“The 183 pages of text are clear and concise – indeed, the explanations of the rhythms and instruments are superb”.

PERCUSSIVE NOTES (P.A.S.), Ron Fink.  USA, July 1986.
…”He certainly knows how to precent a clear and lucid guide through the often confusing rhythmic structures and terminology encountered”.
…”In conjunction with the recorded examples on the cassettes, the ominously complex sounding rhythms are broken down to the point where you actually find yourself thinking there’s nothing to it. Of course there is, but at least, you’ve been drawn into the taking them on”. …  “This book provides the map”.
RHYTHM MAGAZINE, Nigel Lord, London, January 1987

“With the patience and perfection of an artist Birger Sulsbrück has stripped down the beats of the various rhythms and translated them into notes in order to explain the language of Cuban rhythms”.
CAIMAN BARBUDO, Bernardo Marques Ravelo, Cuba, November 1982

Presseomtale af

“Latin American Percussion – VIDEO SESSION” 

…”And it is here where we get to appreciate all of the instruments and techniques previously discussed, in an absorbing musical segment performed by some skilled Latin players”. 
…  “The group weaves through a brief but inspirring selection of tunes that adequately demonstrates the Cha-cha-chá, Son Montuno, Mambo, Guaracha, Bolero and Rumba”. 
…  “plus an opportunity to hear what it’s all supposed to sound like when it’s done right, Latin American Percussion will offer you exactly that”.
MODERN DRUMMER MAGAZINE, Mark Hurley, USA, January, 1989.

… ”One of the best explanations of clave I have seen was given by Birger Sulsbrück in his instructional video Latin-American Percussion. Here you have a Danish man explaning an Afro-Cuban musical principle to you in English. It is an amusing juxtaposition, but more importantly, it works”.
DESCARGA.com, Review by David Peñalosa. January 1994.

”  … (about clave) is certainly the clearest and most concise demonstration I’ve seen.  
…  A friend of mine who has been keen to learn Latin-American percussion for some time seemed entranced by the proceedings. At the end of each section, he murmured “It’s very clear, isn’t it?  …  you can’t go wrong with Birger …”
RHYTHM, Tim Ponting. UK, 1988.

” Birger Sulsbrück har gjort det igen! Med udgivelsen af denne video-session har Birger Sulsbrück videreført sit pædagogiske arbejde med at gøre latinamerikanske rytmer og rytmeinstrumenter tilgængelige for enhver – uden mystik, udelukkende med facts. …
Sulsbrück er veloplagt og orkesteret lyser af spilleglæde. Gode billeder og god lyd ….
Nærmere kan man vel ikke komme “levende” undervisning.
OPUS, Fin Hagested.

Presseomtale af 

“LATIN-AMERICAN Play-A-Long CD”    

“Musikalsk, lærerig og groovy!”
STICKS, Tom Schäfer, Tyskland, November 2004.

Presseomtale af 

DR Bigband CD’en – “Cuban Flavour” (Projektleder og co-producer)
… “Projektet skyldes i høj grad, at Birger Sulsbrück i marts 2004 hentede syv cubanske gæstemusikere hertil – kendt fra grupper som Irakere og Habana Ensemble” …
“Et svendestykke!”
DJEMBE, Peter Krog. April 2005.