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Label: NEMU RECORDS 007 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none Tracks: Inner Constellation; Rain In The Face; Cues To The Vagabond; Receding Storm Eisenbeil’s breakthrough as a composer and his finest recorded effort as a player to date, ”Inner Constellation” is based on a set tone field ”sort of like stars in the night sky,” the guitarist says. ”The tone field expands through five or six octaves, and you know how people have always liked connecting the stars to make figures and images? Well, we’re doing the same thing with pitches. The piece explores contrasts in the weight of sound, by which I mean the melodic lines and the rhythm go in a horizontal direction, but the vertical pressure of the chording, of the harmony, is constantly there compressing or expanding.” There is a good deal of counterpoint, much of it taking a form that resembles call and response. But it’s counterpoint based on what Eisenbeil calls ”stratification”—”contrasting layers of tone colors, harmony, rhythm, and expression”—rather than conventional melodic or contrapuntal imitation. A handy illustration of this comes on the section aptly subtitled ”Triple Astral Texture” (#11), where Cook’s serene violin is pitted against edgy horns and thrashing guitar, bass, and drums. ”Inner Constellation” is so remarkable the freely improvised trio pieces that end the CD risk going overlooked. They shouldn’t be, because in addition to helping give us a complete picture of Eisenbeil, they’re full of imaginative touches. On both ”Rain in the Face” and ”Cues to the Vagabond,” it sounds as if Eisenbeil is detuning his guitar or maybe disassembling it altogether; with Abbs and Waits urging him on, he’s employing techniques associated with Derek Bailey and other free improvisers without forsaking the rhythmic syntax of jazz. — Francis Davis |
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Label: NEMU 008 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none Tracks: Straight Into; You Zuo; Zoo on the Road; Round Midnight; Jink; Angelity; Setting up the Market; Dax Dance; Gesture Talk; Stop and Go and Run; Zbeggery; After All TRIO HOT – a name that inexorably evokes the bands that sprang up and around the Hot Clubs and enjoyed a heyday almost everywhere in Europe in the ‘30s. The TRIO HOT which consists of the violinist and founder of the band, Albrecht Maurer, a fixed member of the various string ensembles established by Kent Carter over the years, the clarinettist Theo Jörgensmann, one of the contemporary masters of the instrument, and the bassist Peter Jacquemyn, an acolyte of the late Peter Kowald whose legacy he honors by infusing new inventiveness, didn’t get its name merely by chance. In jazz history, the clarinet and the string instruments were first brought together during the swing era by such personages as Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Stéphane Grappelli or Joe Venuti. Forgotten for a good many years – indeed, only the West Coast musicians would continue to play the clarinet, and how! – the two instruments reappeared at about the same time on both sides of the Atlantic when the first wave of free jazz re-united them in non-hierarchical instrumental groups, a trend which would then go on to grow accordingly as free music and free improvisation began to detach itself from the more established forms of jazz. |
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Label: NEMU 009 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none SLOW – Judzas Milasius Tracks: So Light; Scalpel Sad; Icy; The Rowels of Spurs; Seasickness; Pawnshop Accountant; It’s Rare Air Here; Spray Drift; Kino Juozas Milasius is one of the most popular guitarists in Lithuania, famous for being a hard-liner, a performer who has tried all the possibilities of noise and silence as well as alternative ways of producing the sound. Critics gave him a name of one of the most impressive noise music originators in Lithuania. Recently he has been playing the guitar on stage using experiments of noise and possibilities of modern electronics and computers. In 1986-1988 Juozas Milasius was a member of Petras Vyšniauskas Quartet. Since then he took part in various European jazz and modern music festivals, composed and played music for movies and theatre, produced and performed a number of audiovisual installations. Juozas Milasius worked with many famous musicians. He released or co-released 10 albums, including the last one “SLOW” in 2009. |
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Label: NEMU 011 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none ARTISTS: Theo Jörgensmann - g-low clarinet, voice. Albrecht Maurer - violin, viola, voice |
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Label: NEMU RECORDS 001 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none Tracks: Goodby Earth*; Chryse Planitia; Tempe Terra*; Elysium Planitia; Valles Marineris; Olympus Mons*; Newton Basin; Chasma Boreale; Back To Earth A fragile musical texture full of surprises, exceptional sound combinations and tricky connections of composed and improvised parts. In its works the new Syntopia Quartet knits together the aesthetics of contemporary classical music and minimal music, annexes them skilfully to the impulses of free music. |
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Label: NEMU RECORDS 002 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none Tracks: Lapis Blues; Emergence; Faust; Piece in Gamelan Style; Fragments This meeting of minds, intriguingly titled PHOTOSPHERE, joins Robert Dick and Ursel Schlicht, two virtuosi whose talent for stretching their instruments and minds allows them to paint with more colors and textures than flute and piano have any right to expect. Pianist and composer Ursel Schlicht has played improvised music, jazz, new music and world music throughout Europe, North America, Russia, Mexico and Australia, including recent performances at the Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada), Festival for Creative Music in Seattle (US), International Music Meeting in Monterrey (Mexico), Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival (Australia), Symposium für Aktuelle Music and Jazz Festival Kassel (Germany). She has written for large and small ensembles, dance theater and improvisational scores for silent film. As an artist-in-residence at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York, she created a score for F.W. Murnau's silent classic film Faust.Robert Dick -- improviser, composer, author, teacher and inventor -- is known worldwide for redefining the flute, creating revolutionary visions of its musical role. His music is rooted in free improvisation, new jazz, and classical music, contemporary and traditional. Dick has performed solo concerts throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. He has released numerous solo recordings and performed and recorded with Ursel Schlicht, New Winds, Tambastics, Oscura Luminosa, the Soldier String Quartet, the A.D.D. Trio, King Chubby, Paul Giger, Jaron Lanier, Randy Raine-Reusch, Barry Guy, Mari Kimura, Klaus Kugel and many others. His grants, fellowships and commissions include a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowships, a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission, and two Meet the Composer commissions. His pedagogical works, including the book The Other Flute: A Performance Manual of Contemporary Techniques, are considered the standard bearers in their field. |
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Label: NEMU RECORDS 003 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none Tracks: Journey To Strange (Perry Robinson); Monster (Peter Evans); Iono (Hilliard Greene); Bobosong (Klaus Kugel); Diagonal People (Bruce Eisenbeil); Carnival Skin (Evas/Robinson/Eisenbeil/Greene/Kugel) Artists: Bruce Eisenbeil, guitar; Klaus Kugel, drums; Perry Robinson, clarinet; Peter Evans, trumpet, piccolo trumpet; Hilliard Greene, double-bass Producing a cutting edge, high energy art form, CARNIVAL SKIN explores original melodic themes and rhythms found not only in the traditions of free jazz and contemporary improvisation but also in the new complexity of modern composition. The band’s philosophy is based on paradoxes and extremes being a necessity in order to achieve balance. The variety of their work discovers contrasts in the weight of sound. CARNIVAL SKIN digs into a place where people live not out of necessity but because they want to be part of a future that invites surprise and welcomes spontaneity. The band’s mission has been to explore their passion for improvisation and musical exploration and to develop a unique musical cohesion through extended performances. The focus is on the art form itself, despite the current trend of image-driven music on the scene today. This band aims to develop cutting-edge jazz and contemporary improvisation to re-establish substance over hype. Following is a brief history of the band, and the diverse background of the musicians that make up CARNIVAL SKIN. |
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Label: NEMU RECORDS 004 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none Tracks: Hidden Fresco; … a deu; Tempera; Fadenspiel; Erosion; Melancholia; Aura; Nibbio; Clindra; Sfumato; Craquele; Behind Since years Albrecht Maurer and Norbert Rodenkirchen are specialized in interplay between old and new sounds. The duo compose and improvise original New Music on just medieval instruments: gothic fiddle, medieval flutes, harp...With impressive virtuosity both musicians combine influences from various musical genres. Their outstanding technic shows energy and dynamic, taking its tension out of meditative concentration, devotion and unlimited musical curiosity. The Cologne-born Norbert Rodenkirchen studied at his hometown‘s music-school. He took lessons at Hans Martin Müller in order to play the fl ute and at Günther Höller in order to learn about Baroque flutes. After his studies Norbert Rodenkirchen started to work intensively with music from the Middle Age, practical and theoretical. As well he is composing for the Staatstheater Darmstadt, Theater Bremen,Schauspiel Wuppertal and the WDR. Today Norbert Rodenkirchen is an international highly asked player of medieval flutes. Since 1996 he is a member of the international well-known ensemble ‘Sequentia’. The violinist and composer Albrecht Maurer studied at the Music School of Cologne in order to play the violin. As well he learned to play the piano. Additional he took lessons of Johannes Fritsch and Klarenz Barlow. Albrecht Maurer made experiences in Contemporary Music and experimental music theater by collaborating with several composers out of Maurizio Kagel‘s school. He took part in over thirty radio productions and plaid on many important festivals all over Europe. He and Norbert Rodenkirchen are members of the Paris based ensemble Dialogos. |
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Label: NEMU RECORDS 010 Our Price: $17.50 Quantity in Basket: none Tracks: 1. Symphonic Fields; 2. Wood Dance; 3. Play or Way?; 4. Echoes Of the Tree; 5. Church in Blue; 6. Lost Inside; 7. Sacred Forest Trio; 8. The Lizards of Aukstumala; 9. Archaic Glimpses; 10. Varpai Their music is best experienced in performance spaces such as churches or concert halls where the sound stage lends itself to an atmosphere conducive to silence and resonance. Each concert is a singular event exclusively comprised of self composed pieces. |
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