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Bach today: Stefan Keller & Beda Ehrensperger play Bach and beyond
Info text: Bach today Baroque classics in a groovy jazz guise "Bach today" includes a colorful, varied and multifaceted program. The well-known flute works by JS Bach and his son CP E. Bach are the basis for this CD. The delicate, groovy accompaniment of the highly virtuoso baroque pieces by the accomplished drummer, enriched with skillful improvisations, allows the “baroque classics” to be presented in a completely […]
Phil Minton & ICI Ensemble: Say Yes. Till No.
Info text: What Phil Minton produces with his voice alone - those "almost incredible and uncanny sounds for which there is nothing comparable far and wide" (Bert Noglik) - it seems to be beyond the realm of possibility. He is the undisputed singing giant of the jazz avant-garde. With the ICI Ensemble he meets a collective of like-minded people. For almost 20 years […]
Peter Brötzmann & ICI Ensemble: Beautiful Lies
Peter Brötzmann & ICI Ensemble Program: Beautiful Lies [01] I. Beauty doesn't lie 31:41 [02] II. Eye of the beholder 40:13 total playing time: 71:56 Peter Brötzmann: tenor saxophone, clarinet, tárogató Roger Jannotta: flutes, clarinet, oboe, alto saxophone David Jäger: soprano & tenor saxophones, bass clarinet Markus Heinze: baritone & alto saxophones, cornet Christofer Varner: trombone […]
William Parker & ICI Ensemble: Winter Sun Crying
Info text: Composer in Dialogue 2009 William Parker & ICI Ensemble WINTER SUN CRYING Organized by ICI forum munich eV and supported by the cultural department of the state capital of Munich. A commissioned composition by the ICI forum munich eV William Parker was born in 1952 in the Bronx, New York City. Parker, who has been managing his own projects of various sizes for over thirty years […]
Quartet Otomo Yoshihide, Axel Dörner, Sachiko M, Martin Brandlmayr: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2005 – SWR2 NOWJazz
Info text: The persistent power of quiet The Quartet Otomo Yoshihide · Axel Dörner · Sachiko M · Martin Brandlmayr at the Donaueschinger Musiktage The masters of Zen would certainly enjoy it. The rhythms, which are constantly repeated with great serenity, are reminiscent of the clacking noises that are made again and again by [...]
Elliott Sharp: Spectropia Suite – Original Soundtrack to the film “Spectropia”
Info text: Spectropia is both a full-length feature film and an interactive media event set in a possible England in 2099, and in New York City in 1931 after the stock market crash. Directed by Toni Dove, it tells a story of time travel and supernatural possession to explore the disorders brought on by consumer culture. For […]
Scott Fields: what we talk about
Info text: Our duo was formed for the 2007 Cologne Music Triennial (MusikTriennale Köln) series “Solos for duos, improvisation from yesterday and today”. Festival yentas matched six Early Music specialists with six New Music specialists. Each pair played similar instruments. Harpsichord and piano. Medieval organ and analog synthesizer. The […]
Elliott Sharp, Scott Fields: AFIADACAMPOS
Info text: Elliott Sharp: There is both ease and difficulty in an ongoing collaboration, especially one between two guitarist composers. We now both have a good sense of each others' language on the instrument — not just the surface shape and form but the underlying syntax and substance. This allows for a flow and interlock of […]
Carl Ludwig Hübsch: Carl Ludwig Hübsch's Longrun Development of the Universe - The creators bend a master plan
Info text: One of the great appeals of this trio (alright, quartet, but we'll get to that) is that it breathes as a single living being. In concert, and on their previous recordings, Hübsch, Schubert, and Wierbos sound as though they are one three-voiced beast, singing ad libitum, moving seamlessly between written material and the stuff […]
Manfred Kniel: Manfred Kniel and his Reduction Quartet – LOW DOWN MUSIC
Info text: Satirical comments on the CD LOW DOWN MUSIC You will hear the “Reduction Quartet” with eight LOW DOWN compositions. LOW DOWN MUSIC is a clear, uncompromisingly reduced, independent musical language that incorporates the basic messages of all possible types of music. LOW DOWN MUSIC is the music of enlightened simplicity, of cheerful failure - it is music from me. Manfred […]
Elliott Sharp, Bernhard Lang: Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007 - NOWJazz - War Zones
Info text: SCENARIOS OF FEAR ›War Zones‹ – a project by Elliott Sharp and Bernhard Lang at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007 There is darkness in the air. Undoubtedly, the disastrous policies of the USA under George W. Bush have led to an escalation of the current world situation. The unjustified war in Iraq caused the already deep divisions between […]
Scott Fields: Music for the radio program THIS AMERICAN LIFE
Info text: Driving back to Chicago for Christmas a decade or so ago, maybe less, David Sedaris, reading his story about taking French class in France, brought me to tears. Listening to David Sedaris read one of his stories is always better than reading one of his stories and if you do read one of his […]