COMITÉ
IMAGINAIRE
Holz
für Europa |
Preis
/ Price :
15.08 €
Bestell-Nr.
/ Purchase Order No. : FMP CD 084
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| Peter
van Bergen |
contrabass
clarinet, bass clarinet, tenor sax, A-flat clarinet |
| Wolfgang
Fuchs |
contrabass
clarinet, bass clarinet, sopranino sax |
| Hans
Koch |
contrabass
clarinet, bass clarinet, B-flat clarinet, soprano sax |
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01.
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Turn
around (Version one) |
05:51 |
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02.
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Vari
1.0 |
18:03 |
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03.
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Vari
1.1 |
02:44 |
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04.
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Vari
1.2 |
02:28 |
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05.
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Orbicular
2.1 |
05:38 |
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06.
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Orbicular
2.2 |
07:23 |
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07.
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Orbicular
2.3 |
03:25 |
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08.
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Cuts
3.2 |
05:12 |
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09.
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Cuts
3.3 |
04:40 |
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10.
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Cuts
3.4 |
08:45 |
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11.
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Turn
around (Version two) |
05:17 |
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Total
time: |
69:26 |
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All
pieces composed by Peter van Bergen, Wolfgang Fuchs,
Hans Koch
Recorded live by Holger Scheuermann and Jost Gebers
during the 'Summer Concerts' series on July 1 - 2, 1995,
at the 'Haus am Waldsee', Berlin.
Produced by Jost Gebers
Photos: Dagmar Gebers
Liner
notes: Christian Rentsch
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| First
published in January 1997 |
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Excerpt
from the booklet:
Through the dictates of post modernism, the current notions
of what actually is art get lost, traditional categories loose
their meaning. Whilst, only a few years ago, we hardly hesitated
when it was to do with identifying a certain kind of music
as `Jazz´, today we are increasingly at a loss. And even the
musicians themselves refuse to be categorised, for good reasons.
Jazz, which used to be the promised land of freedom, rebellion
and resistance against all things bourgeois, ready-made and
boring, has become just that itself, a music of repetition,
fundamentalism and the narrow-minded in pin-striped suits
the musical sticker of a petrified tradition. (...)
The brutal commercialisation of the music industry, the dictatorship
of entertainment within the throngs of the music business,
the festivals and fast-food radios, which, from the very beginning,
pushed European free musicians into the outer reaches of the
´subcultures´ , has had, along with all the negative sides
- like a vicious punch-line of capitalism - even some positive
aspects: where money doesn´t matter, one can freely have ideas,
(…) the aesthetic profit becomes the only major aim of the
musical spirit of enterprise. (…)
The European trio HOLZ FÜR EUROPA comes from this tradition.
They have known each other since 1988, WOLFGANG FUCHS from
Germany, HANS KOCH from Switzerland and PETER VAN BERGEN from
Holland; they actually met during a concert of the Cecil Taylor
European Orchestra. (...)
Seven wind instruments, from contra-bass and bass clarinet
to B-flat and E-flat clarinets, from tenor to soprano through
to sopranino, between silence and explosive intensity, between
tender beauty and uninhibited expressionism, between ingeniously
written passages and free searching movements within the still
relatively unexplored areas of melody, discordant sounds and
noise, subtle, at times brittle sound scapes in all stages
of unrest, fragility and emphasis. Certainly, the three musicians
in HOLZ FÜR EUROPA don´t play music of rebellion or of open
riot, times are different now. The aesthetics of resistance
has been taken over by the aesthetics of priority of all musical
means and possibilities, in the unfolding as well as in the
reduction. Music truly of the moment. |
Christian
Rentsch
Translation: Isabel Seeberg / Paul Lytton
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