Doppelmoppel

Doppelmoppel: Outside This Area

by Nic Jones
May 28, 2008

If one of the ongoing preoccupations of an identifiably European approach to free improvisation is the undermining of conventional group line-ups, then a quartet of two guitars (Uwe Kropinski and Joe Sachse) and two trombones (Conny and Johannes Bauer) has to be some kind of statement in itself. The same is true of the music they produce, and the statement in Outside This Area's case is eloquent, persuasive and compelling.

For all of its merits as ...