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music by Charles Gayle
Recorded March by Jost Gebers and Jonas Bergler
on August 21 - 22, 1993 Produced Jost Gebers
Produced by Jost Gebers
Photos: Dagmar Gebers
Liner
notes: Felix Klopotek
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published in June 1999 |
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Excerpt
from the booklet:
For years CHARLES GAYLE´s music has been exclusively assigned
to the categories of power-play energy and exertion. (…) In
accordance with this way of reading things, GAYLE was heir
to Albert Ayler and John Coltrane and simply blew away the
Free Jazz clichés gone grey over the years. He was the newcomer,
the lost son of the generation of the Ayler´s and Wright´s,
the survivor. Indeed, he had battled his way for years on
the streets of New York, a fact which has been stylised as
his ´trade mark´ in an obscene way. (…).
Sensitivity, kinetic flexibility, supplying intuition and
concentration, the ecstatic letting-go as well as that insistent
circling of an idea reveal themselves as the constitutional
characteristic of the music. And it becomes clear that what
you so often wanted to hear from GAYLE, the squanderingly
propelled eruptions are the result of this exacting work,
of this precise listening. (…)
As thoroughly as people misunderstand his music as expression
of the ´street´, as banal it is to think of it as a whispering
evocation of the Holy Ghost. It occupies, roughly speaking,
an intermediate position, an ambivalent attitude between metaphysics
and materialism. No, GAYLE rather fights for it - step by
step from the religiosity he claims for himself, from the
ghosts of the past and the direct confrontation with the NOW.
It is this "turning point to reality" which sets the music
alight. |
Felix
Klopotek
Translation: Isabel Seeberg / Paul Lytton
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