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EUPHORIUM_freakestra: soundz offfe drzk wähuh

Read "soundz offfe drzk wähuh" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The funny thing about DNA is that just when scientists believe it to be the identifiable signature of all living things, along comes CRISPR gene editing. This technology allows an operator to edit the basic genetic material of an organism, much like the music of Oliver Schwerdt's EUPHORIUM_freakestra. We're not talking science fiction here, more like ...

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The Workers: Altbüron

Read "Altbüron" reviewed by John Eyles


Altbüron is the first album release from The Workers, a newly-formed quartet of experienced Swiss improvisers, each of whom had previously collaborated with at least one other member; the quartet comprises soprano saxophonist Urs Leimgruber (born 1952), alto saxophonist, flautist and voice Omri Ziegele (born 1959), bassist Christian Weber (born 1972) and drummer Alex Huber (born ...

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It's About Time

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Like a Lake; Perpetual-Motion Food; It’s About Time; On a Bare Branch; Covid-19 Blues; Fragments; String Holder.

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Altbüron

Label: Wide Ear Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Altbüron

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OM: It's About Time

Read "It's About Time" reviewed by Ian Patterson


In 1982, after five albums in ten years, Swiss free-jazz quartet OM called it a day—its four members, Christy Doran, Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgruber and Bobby Burri going their separate ways. A supposed one-off reunion in 2007 to open an exhibition on the youth movement of the 1960s and 1970s led to a successful series of ...

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Jacques Demierre: The Well-Measured Piano

Read "The Well-Measured Piano" reviewed by John Eyles


Pianist Jacques Demierre's 2019 must be judged a success because of the release of Willisau (Jazzwerkstatt, 2019) by his new quartet—alongside trio members Urs Leimgruber and Barre Phillips plus new member Thomas Lehn—as well as his first duo album Incunabulum (Herbal Records, 2019) with Hans Koch. By comparison, his solo recording The Well-Measured Piano rather slipped ...

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Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre, Barre Phillips, Thomas Lehn: Willisau

Read "Willisau" reviewed by John Eyles


The LDP trio (shorthand for Swiss saxophonist Urs Leimgruber, Swiss pianist Jacques Demierre and American-born bassist Barre Phillips) first came together when they recorded Wing Vane (Les Disques Victo, 2001) which was followed-up with LDP—Cologne (Psi, 2005), an early use of the trio's abbreviated name. Subsequent LDP releases have come every three or four years, all ...

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Lightnings

Label: Wide Ear Records
Released: 2016

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In The Corner Of The Eye

Label: Hat Hut Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Solomutation; The Warm Up; She Moved Through the Fair; Seven Shadows; Switches, no Cuts; Celtic Ballad; In the Corner of the Eye; Beyond Words; Lou Yuri; Spirale (edited version).


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