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Two Truths
Peter Brötzmann
Label: Not Two Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 74:51
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Tracks
1. Productive Cough (Peter Brötzmann, Jörg Fischer) 2. Beside (Per‑Åke Holmlander, Tim Daisy) 3. Conversation I (Joëlle Léandre, Lauren Newton) 4. Truth in the Abstract Blues (Joe McPhee, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten) 5. Goldie (Kirk Knuffke, Mike Pride) 6. Skywriting (Rob Brown, Daniel Levin) 7. Penumbra for woodwind(s) & bass(es) 1+1 (Anthony Braxton, Chris Dahlgren) 8. Improvisation No. 4 (Paulina Owczarek, Tomasz Gądecki) 9. Dear Rafał 1 (Agustí Fernández, Rafał Mazur) 10. Landing Takeoff (Daniel Carter, Matthew Shipp) 11. In Kraków, In November (Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura) 12. Persistence (Thomas Pernes, Andy Manndorff) 13. Gold (Lucas Niggli, Peter Conradin Zumthor)
Personnel
Peter Brötzmann
woodwinds
Jörg Fischer
drumsPer‑Åke Holmlander
tuba
Tim Daisy
drums
Lauren Newton
vocals
Joëlle Léandre
bass
Joe McPhee
woodwinds
Kirk Knuffke
trumpet
Mike Pride
drums
Rob Brown
saxophone, alto
Daniel Levin
cello
Anthony Braxton
woodwinds
Chris Dahlgren
guitar, acousticPaulina Owczarek
saxophone, baritoneTomasz Gądecki
saxophone, baritone
Agusti Fernandez
piano
Rafal Mazur
bass, acoustic
Daniel Carter
saxophone
Matthew Shipp
pianoAdditional Personnel / Information
Satoko Fujii - piano Natsuki Tamura - trumpet Thomas Pernes - piano Andy Manndorff - guitar Lucas Niggli - drums Peter Conradin Zumthor - drums
Album Description
The duo is improvised music's purest social contract. With only two musicians in the room every
gesture is magnified — every choice, every risk, every act of listening. TWO TRUTHS draws thirteen
duets from across the Not Two catalog, spanning nearly twenty years and showing how differently
artists inhabit the form: as dialogue, confrontation, meditation, shared exploration. Brötzmann
and Fischer open with sculptural tenor-and-drums; Léandre and Newton dissolve the boundary between
bass and voice; Braxton and Dahlgren submit to chance, drawing playing cards to decide the form.
At the heart sit four consecutive piano duets — Fernández, Carter, Fujii, Pernes — before two
drummers, Niggli and Zumthor, close with an unexpectedly calm "Gold." Thirteen duets in which two
things happen at once and turn out to be a single thing.
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