Sven-Åke Johansson's 1972 record Schlingerland presents just the man and his drum set, exploring the polyrhythmic possibilities of his kit. Schlingerland fills a gap in the documentation of '70s European improvisation. At the same time, it retains a surprisingly contemporary sound which reverberates in the ear, mind, and heart of the 21st century listener. (All About Jazz)
Recording: Göran Freese, 1972 in Stockholm Schweden. Re-Mastering: Martin Siewert, 2019. Artwork: SÅJ.
Recorded May 1968 at “Lila Eule”, Bremen.
Peter Brötzmann: baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone. Peter Kowald: acoustic bass. Buschi Niebergall: acoustic bass. Sven-Ake Johansson: drums. Han Bennink: drums. Fred Van Hove: piano. Evan Parker: tenor saxophone. Willem Breuker: tenor saxophone.
Finally THE European Free Jazz album is getting the Cien Fuegos treatment too!
With a screenprinted cover.
First time on vinyl, appeared first on FMP CD 24 Machine Gun & later on Atavistic’s “Complete Machine Gun Sessions” on CD.
Recorded May 1968 at “Lila Eule”, Bremen. Peter Brötzmann: baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone. Peter Kowald: acoustic bass. Buschi Niebergall: acoustic bass. Sven-Ake Johansson: drums. Han Bennink: drums. Fred Van Hove: piano. Evan Parker: tenor saxophone. Willem Breuker: tenor saxophone.
Finally THE European Free Jazz album is getting the Cien Fuegos treatment too!
With a screenprinted cover.
Re-Performance of the 25. Action, March 1982 in the gallery Pakesch, Vienna (Premiere was in New York 1968). Hermann Nitsch, Austria, painter, performance-artist and composer, was a crucial founding artist of “Viennese Actionism”. Exhibitions and performances all over the world since the 60s.
The idea of the very sensual and archaic “Orgien Mysterien Theater” was developed in the late 50s and is performed in variations untill today.
Nitsch works out all settings of the rituals, the feast in great detail, precisely composes days of art, performance, food, wine and music – to celebrate the existence of mankind…
Peter Brötzmann, alto, tenor & baritone saxophone, e-flat clarinet, tarogato. Harry Miller, double bass. Louis Moholo, drums. Recorded live by Jost Gebers on November 5th & 6th,1980 in Berlin. Produced by Brötzmann and Gebers. Cover: design by Peter Brötzmann, photos by Hans Reichel. “(...) On Opened, But Hardly Touched, the Brötzmann-Miller-Moholo combination, displays the most accessible approach of the live trio recordings surveyed. An extemporaneous master who puts the spur in the spur of the moment, reedman Peter Brötzmann is surely one of Albert Ayler’s most vital sons for his blowing stamina and savage sense of humor. Bassist Harry Miller and drummer Louis Moholo lend the muscle needed to anchor and counterpoint the saxophonist’s wildest flights. Elsewhere associated with projects having a decidedly ethnic flavor, the two South Africans show off an earthiness that swings hard, in meter and out. The clarity of FMP’s November 1980 recording beautifully underlines their contributions. The boundaries between composition and improvisation are intentionally blurred. (...) The music’s design suggests a certain inevitability as it effects pendular swings between quietness and intensity, solos and duets, microtones and staunch collective blowing. On the attractive opener, Eine Kleine
Nachtmarie, Miller and Moholo pull rhythmically in and out of sync, juggling time against free sections, against the bleat of Brötzmann’s soprano stand-in, the tarogato.
Special Request For Malibu perhaps best reveals the sonic extremes. The spasmodic throes of Brötzmann on clarinet and tenor contrast with his big soft “flaps” of breath in duet with arco bass - as Miller plays sinuous near-electronic sonorities, between notes and white noise. Through all of the performances Moholo pushes, restless and jabbing, but with flexible touch.” from: Down Beat 1983.