SUITE
FOR B … CITY
´t Nonet Fred Van Hove |
Preis
/ Price :
15.08 €
Bestell-Nr.
/ Purchase Order No. : FMP CD 088
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| Annick
Nozati |
voice |
| Axel
Dörner |
trumpet |
| Johannes
Bauer |
trombone |
| Paul
Rutherford |
trombone |
| André
Goudbeek |
alto
sax, bandoneon |
| John
Butcher |
soprano
sax, tenor sax |
| Fred
Van Hove |
piano,
accordion |
| Benoît
Viredaz |
tuba |
| Ivo
Vander Borght |
drums,
percussion |
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01.
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Smooth
Ascend & Bumpy Descend |
22:58 |
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02.
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Town/White |
07:17 |
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03.
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Town/Red
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12:11 |
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04.
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Bollocks
City |
28:47 |
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05.
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Tristesse
de Joko |
06:32 |
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Total
time: |
77:45 |
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Composed
by Fred Van Hove
Recorded by Holger Scheuermann and Jonas Bergler
live during the 'Workshop Freie Musik' on April 8, 1996
at the 'Akademie der Künste', Berlin.
Produced by Fred Van Hove and Jost Gebers
Cover design/Layout: Mie
Photos: Raymond Mallentjer, Dagmar Gebers
Liner
notes: Markus Müller
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published in October 1997 |
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Excerpt
from the booklet:
... SUITE FOR B... CITY (...) develops a map with compositional
juncture points and improvisational playgrounds. Their location
is the history of Modern Music. In fact, the compositional
and recreative way of dealing with the phenomenon of organisation
and chance since Ligeti´s ´Atmosphères´ in 1961. Ligeti was
interested in structures within the structureless, i.e. he
wanted to develop a soundtexture which holds up acoustically
where the interchange of acoustic events and pauses should
be abolished. Events and breaks were meant to coincide in
such a way that a constant resonance can be heard which, however,
remains in the background in front of which nothing happens,
at least it appears as if just as little is happening as in
the spaces. The delicate clusters, the touches of intricate
sounds VAN HOVE´s t`NONET uses to open the suite from this
kind of background, but which the difference that there is
much more happening in front of this background than during
most of the performances of contemporary music . When Ligeti
seems to be ´standing still´, VAN HOVE is moving with the
tides, creating high and low tides. And in such a way that
the swirls and currents of the improvisation rise from a coherent
organisation. The sounds are precisely organised, as becomes
obvious quite soon. The sequence of organised sound events
and ´free improvisation´, as appears subsequently, is just
as precise and the listener experiences ´more discovering
than searching´ which is, as we all know, a direct consequence
of the ´living´ practice and method of improvisation.
The sequence of solos, duos, trios is by no means coincidental,
but a reflection, in certain cases, of over twenty years of
playing music together. (...)
VAN HOVE organises ´t´NONET´ from a ´Ligeti-like´ tidal breath
through declamatory block formations to protestant Albert-Ayler-arrangements,
(...) from Sicilian procession marches right up to Wuppertal
Jahrmarkt. (...)
Obviously, this is no programme music, you really don´t know
in which part of town you are, but you know that you´r e at
home! (...) |
Markus Müller
Translation: Isabel Seeberg / Paul Lytton
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