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EUPHORIUM_freakestra: soundz offfe drzk wähuh
ByWhile later efforts by the ensemble included guests such as Barry Guy, Günter 'Baby' Sommer, Axel Dorner, Bertrand Denzler, Thomas Lehn, Rudi Mahall, Urs Leimgruber, and Friedrich Schenker, this recording from 2001 was made up of Schwerdt's local collaborators. The place where the music begins, you are guaranteed, is not where it will end. Opening, chamber-like with a single horn, then two and some electric piano, the music expands into spacey Davis-like territory before transitioning into a guitar jam. By the end of the second disc we have heard a German take on early Red Hot Chili Peppers funk/rock chants. How do we get there? Through mutation, baby, mutation.
In between there are field recordings, spoken word (German) sequences à la Alessandro Bosetti music, John Zorn-like Cobra passages, a swinging saxophone/drum duo, some speed funk, bits and pieces of Star Wars debris, sounds resembling Squarepusher's Music Is Rotted One Note (Warp, 1998), a Jimi Hendrix guitar meal, a radio dial spin, some random tones and bits of noise. The music is at times disjointed, yet the whole is intriguing with the lengthier tracks more developed and complete. Wherever the EUPHORIUM_freakestra is going, it is great to be along for the ride.
Track Listing
(CD1) Phore I: soujhmar; m’lazare sivadna; vidrin ‘pada; Wiltwark Wängelwür ; :bewusst wo (Ein großer Schinken reicht!); Phore II: Skalensklave; bagawa swami; baja; Drosander kaliopsis; Belgisches Randgruppenoxymoron feat. Brigo Bräugefergk, der namentlich Nichternannte (Wandelndes Unterbrühl); Schwarzer Rettich (uff'm Handwagen); (CD2) maloö bantar-krk/h; aina; bou tazi; Magische Nacht mit Birnenbums einer tumultuarischen Konferenz; Phore III: Dezente; Hornbrille; e Drzk Wähuh, Misch & Tattermusch; Mr. Eichelhäher.
Personnel
Additional Instrumentation
Philipp von Trott: trumpet; Gilbert Eiche: tenor saxophone; Rainer Bühl: bassoon; Hartmut Dorschner: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone; Friedrich Kettlitz: electric guitar, voice; Sebastian Baller: electric guitar, voice; Rudi Feuerbach: electric guitar; Thomas Walter: electric guitar; Gero Kuntermann: electric guitar; Birg Borgenthal: electric piano, electric organ; Kirkling Botschas: voice; Hans-Hermann Schwerdt: electric piano, electric organ; Oliver Schwerdt: samples, electronics, violin, voice; Peter Lorenz: samples, electronics; Albrecht Buchmann: saxonian voice; Martin Hoffmann: thuringian voice; Sebastian Waack: electric bass; Gudrun Pappelteich: voice; Uwe Schneider: drums, cymbals; Jens Schneider: drums, cymbals; Hermann Grüneberg: drums, cymbals.
Album information
Title: soundz offfe drzk wähuh | Year Released: 2021 | Record Label: Euphorium Records