About the Band
Schluff Jull, founded in 1985 as a psychedelic six-man project, developed a characteristic style thanks to the musicians‘ enthusiasm for playing American rock music with influences from the Allman Brothers, The Band, Dead, but which rejected the then widespread copying of the well-known West Coast and Southern Rock-Repertoires. The band then expanded to include percussion and wind instruments. The band's name, Schluff Jull, is a self confession to province and to the corresponding slowness. No ambitions to make the big money over night, no trendy sounds.

Today, Schluff Jull integrates elements from rock, blues, soul, folk and jazz into a mature, individual sound which is between clever song arrangement and imaginative improvisation with which - similar to American bands like Phish or Blues Traveler - keep the music alive and develop it further in the spirit of the legendary Grateful Dead. 

Schluff Jull‘s origin and concept make them a band, which beyond the three-and-a-half minute format, has a comfortable, relaxed relationship with the factor of time. Complex songs with a lot of scope for improvisation and individual musical atmosphere as well as the feel for the spontaneity of the moment, characterize the likeable group from Viersen. Calculated rock drama has no place at a Schluff Jull Concert. Keeping to their songs and revising them from time to time reflects the philosophy of the musicians around the songwriter, lead singer and guitarist Olaf Kalemba. 

The band‘s first album is from a live recording of a Christmas concert given in Viersen. The CD HEARTLINES, on Taxim Records, is much more than a snapshot of a home concert in Viersen, it is the long-overdue calling card from a self-confident band.