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Markus Stockhausen, Florian Weber: Alba
by Alberto Bazzurro
Un'eleganza un po' esangue e piuttosto ritorta su se stessa caratterizza questo album del duo formato da musicisti separati esattamente da vent'anni l'uno dall'altro (1957 per Stockhausen, 1977 per Weber). Il rilievo non deve suonare come una censura nei confronti del disco, capace anzi di ammaliare l'orecchio e gratificare lo spirito. Il problema è che fa non poca fatica ad andare al di là del pur preziosissimo esercizio di stile, anche ispirato, ma troppo monolitico sul piano sia climatico che ...
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by John Kelman
Sixteen years have passed since Markus Stockhausen was last heard on an ECM recording, but the German trumpeter (and son of renowned composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen) has continued to lead a busy life. The core trio behind 2000's exceptional Karta--notable, in addition to guitarist Terje Rypdal's participation as invited guest, for being largely based on one 90-minute collective improvisation, from which seven of its eleven tracks were excised into fully-formed pieces (despite being pulled from the ether)--continued to work together. Joyosa ...
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by Mark Sullivan
Alba--the first Markus Stockhausen recording for ECM since Karta (ECM, 2000)--is the premiere recording of trumpeter Stockhausen's duo with pianist Florian Weber, a relationship that spun off from Markus' six-piece world music ensemble Eternal Voyage. Initially Stockhausen wrote all of the material, but as the relationship grew Weber contributed tunes: there are also several impromptu performances in this set. After some early experiments with electronics the pair decided that they sounded stronger playing acoustically, making this an all-acoustic album.
read moreMarkus Stockhausen: Markus Stockhausen and The Metropole Orkest
by AAJ Italy Staff
Per una bizzarra serie di coincidenze e contrasti questo disco da un lato vede il creatore della “Intuitive Music," Markus Stockhausen, incidare per l'etichetta “Intuition" ma, dall'altro lato, mentre il nome della label tedesca rappresenta un evidente omaggio all'omonimo brano di Lennie Tristano, uno dei primi esempi di libera improvvisazione nel jazz, nel disco di Stockhausen, registrato dal vivo nel 2011, è la scrittura minuziosa a prevalere sull'improvvisazione, in quattro composizioni del leader eseguite dalla Metropole Orkest sotto la direzione ...
read moreMarkus Stockhausen: Symbiosis
by AAJ Italy Staff
Questo recente CD raccoglie tre lavori di Markus Stockhausen per tromba, clarinetto e orchestra d'archi composti tra il 2003 e il 2007, e interpretati come solisti dallo stesso compositore e dalla clarinettista Tara Bouman (sua compagna anche nel duo Moving Sounds). “Symbiosis," il lavoro principale (nessun riferimento alla composizione omonima di Claus Ogerman per il trio di Bill Evans e orchestra), è anche il più recente, per i due strumenti solisti, e rappresenta una sorta di sintesi della visione musicale ...
read moreMarkus Stockhausen / Vladyslav Sendecki / Arild Andersen / Patrice Heral: Electric Treasures
by John Kelman
It's not uncommon to find bassists and drummers who work together so well that they become almost inseparable; often hired together because of their distinctive simpatico. It's rarer to find full groups with their own signature, expanding their vernacular by recruiting others for alternate ideas. Trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, bassist Arild Andersen and percussionist Patrice Heral have been working together since 1998 but, despite a singular aesthetic, it's their guest collaborators who have helped build a small but diverse body of ...
read moreFerenc Snetberger / Markus Stockhausen: Streams
by John Kelman
Hungarian born/German based guitarist Ferenc Snétberger and German trumpeter Markus Stockhausen have been making music together for many years, most recently on Joyosa (Enja, 2004), where they were joined by Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen and French percussionist Patrice Héral. Joyosa, a cooperative focusing on the writing of everyone involved, contrasts sharply with Karta (ECM, 2000) where the trio of Stockhausen, Andersen and Héral recruited electric guitarist Terje Rypdal instead of Snétberger and, with live electronics also a part of the ...
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