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Frictions / Frictions Now

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Frictions; Frictions Now Part 1; Frictions Now Part 2.

Frictions / Frictions Now

By Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Frictions; Frictions Now Part I; Frictions Now Part II.

Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden: Frictions / Frictions Now

by Glenn Astarita
December 21, 2015

When an obscure buried treasure is reincarnated and unexpectedly arrives in your mailbox, it often looms as a source of interest. Case in point is this little known Wiesbaden, Germany-based experimental jazz group that formed in the late 1960s and recorded two limited edition LPs: Frictions (1969, Self-produced) and Frictions Now (1971, Self-produced). At the time, ...

Free Jazz Group Wiesbaden: Frictions / Frictions Now

by John Sharpe
December 20, 2015

History is written by the victors. That holds as true for art as for war. When looking for pioneers from the formative days of free jazz in Germany, the names of reedmen Peter Brötzmann and Gunter Hampel, trumpeter Manfred Schoof and pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach are likely to spring to mind. But now the Lithuanian No ...