infotext:
The word “arbitrary” means free, arbitrary and arbitrary – in other words, that would have to be jazz first and foremost. However, the improvisation here is not with small musical material such as phrases or themes, but with musical auras.
In Arbitrary, the musicians “possess” themselves with clear and to-the-point auras: mainly the aura of Miles Davis’ electric period in the seventies and the “wall of sound” of Albert Ayler’s rhythm section (Sunny Murray and Gary Peakcock). .
Such an arbitrarily combined compilation of two such formative and fundamentally different jazz aesthetics harbors dangers, but nevertheless opens up new perceptions precisely because of the risk taken.
program:
ARBITRARY
featuring Tom Student on trumpets
[01] 02:05 at dawn
[02] 02:26 a candle lit
[03] 01:57 another day imagined
[04] 02:38 amidst the flares
[05] 04:43 antics revealed
[06] 01:01 epilude
[07] 17:59 procession
[08] 18:24 arbitrary *
total time 51:17
Tom Student: trumpet and flugelhorn
Jens Joneleit: drums, bass, and electric piano / (* grand piano)
Recorded using multitracking with each individual track recorded live, in June 2005 (drums and bass parts), in December 2006 (electric piano), tracking of all trumpet parts between January and February 2007.
Recorded and produced at Studio 1, Nieder-Roden, Hessen, Germany. Additional recordings (track 08: drums and grand piano) by Buzz Kemper, December 2004 at Audio for the Arts Studios, Madison, WI, USA.
Composed, recorded, mixed, edited, and mastered by Jens Joneleit
Press:
03/2008
11 / 12 2007
