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Das Kapital: Conflicts & Conclusions: Das Kapital plays Hanns Eisler

by Eyal Hareuveni
August 27, 2011

Pan-European power trio Das Kapital continues to explore, on its third release, the musical legacy of composer Hanns Eisler, after successfully rearranging Eisler's well-known compositions and songs on Ballads & Barricades (Quark, 2009) Eisler's compositions rarely were covered by free jazz musicians. The pioneer European trio of Peter Brötzmann, Fred Van Hove amd Han Bennink covered a few Esler compositions on the hard-to-find Einheitsfrontlied (FMP, 1973), though the composer's multi-layered writing attempted to fill the gap between ...