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First Choice. Piano Solo KKL Luzern

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. First Choice; 02. Into the Hall of Fame; 03. The Ballad of the Sad Café; 04. Scratching at the KKL; 05. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Piano Player; 06 Oska T.; 07. Jungle Beats II Tutte le composizioni sono di Irene Schweizer

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Live in Willisau & Taktlos

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. A Former Dialogue (Schweizer/Drake) - 21:59; 02. Trinity (Schweizer/Anderson/Drake) - 28:25; 03. Schwandrake (Schweizer/Anderson/Drake) - 10:16; 04. Willisau (Schweizer/Anderson/Drake) - 07:41.

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Irene Schweizer: Ramifications

Read "Irene Schweizer: Ramifications" reviewed by Clifford Allen


One of the leading exponents of free piano playing in Europe from the late 1960s onward, Swiss-born Irène Schweizer occupied a somewhat lonely place in the high-energy FMP canon as she worked with Peter Kowald, Evan Parker, Manfred Schoof, the Wuppertal reedman Rüdiger Carl and others in European free improvisation's heyday. Renowned as a soloist and ...

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Article: Album Review

Irene Schweizer - Fred Anderson - Hamid Drake: Live in Willisau & Taktlos

Read "Live in Willisau & Taktlos" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Non ce ne voglia Fred Anderson, splendido e storico rappresentante della scena free di Chicago, ma questo CD brilla principalmente per le magie di “A Former Dialogue“, sontuosa conversazione tra la pianista svizzera Irene Schweizer ed il percussionista statunitense Hamid Drake. Live Taktlos & Willisau raccoglie le esibizioni del trio Schweizer/Anderson/Drake al Festival di Willisau nell’agosto ...

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Irene Schweizer: First Choice. Piano Solo KKL Luzern

Read "First Choice. Piano Solo KKL Luzern" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il KKL è il Kultur und Kongresszentrum di Lucerna, e tra le sue iniziative presenta una serie di concerti chiamati “Director's Choice”, ovvero musicisti invitati direttamente dal direttore del centro, secondo i suoi gusti ed inclinazioni personali. Nel 2005, il concerto di apertura dei Director's Choice è stato affidato ad Irene Schweizer, figura storica e fondamentale ...

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First Choice - Piano Solo KKL Luzern

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: First Choice; Into The Hall Of Fame; The Ballad Of The Sad Cafe; Scratching At The KKL; The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Piano Player; Oska T.; Jungle Beats II.

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Article: Album Review

Irene Schweizer: First Choice - Piano Solo KKL Luzern

Read "First Choice - Piano Solo KKL Luzern" reviewed by Nic Jones


Comparison between the opening bars of the lengthy title track on First Choice and Cecil Taylor's solo work reveals interesting details. Where Taylor's more reflective passages tend often to preview bombast and iconoclasm writ large, Irene Schweizer's approach to the piano seems more reflective--more prone to rumination on an idea or a fragment of an idea--and ...

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Live At Taktlos

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2005

Album

Where's Africa

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Golden Heart; Togetherness One/Part I; I'm Goin' Fishin'; Monk's Mood; Suicide Is Painless; Speak Low; Isn't It Romantic; Terrestial Beings; Art Deco; Togetherness One/Part II; Bleu Fonce; Jackying; Ask Me Now; The Bride; Ntyilo; Ntyilo.


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