FMP CD 092-093

BUTCH MORRIS
CONDUCTS
BERLIN SKYSCRAPER

Preis / Price : 29.65 € (Double-CD)
Bestell-Nr. / Purchase Order No. : FMP CD 092/093

Axel Dörner

trumpet

Gregor Hotz

soprano sax

Marc Stutz-Boukouya

trombone

Aleks Kolkowski

violin

Dietrich Petzold

violin & viola

Nicholas Bussmann

cello

Davide de Bernardi

double bass

Kirsten Reese

flutes

Johanne Braun

oboe

Elisabeth Böhm-Christl

bassoon

Wolfgang Fuchs

bass clarinet

Bernhard Arndt

piano

Olaf Rupp

guitar

Tatjana Schütz

harp

Albrecht Riermeier

vibraphone

Stephan Mathieu

percussion

Michael Griener

percussion

CD 1:

078:03

01.

Conduction # 51 Berlin basic part 1

025:27

02.

Conduction # 51 Berlin basic part 2

010:58

03.

Conduction # 52 Dark secret

038:03

04.

Conduction # 51 Berlin basic encore

003:35

CD 2:

079:18

01.

Conduction # 55 Distant occident part 1

030:42

02.

Conduction # 55 Distant occident part 2

009:50

03.

Conduction # 56 Beauty sketch

033:28

04.

Conduction # 56 Finale encore

005:18

Total time:

157:21

All music by Lawrence D. ´Butch´ Morris
Recorded by Holger Scheuermann and Jonas Bergler during the 'Total Meeting' on November 1 - 5, 1995 at the 'Podewil', Berlin.
Produced by Jost Gebers
Photos: Dagmar Gebers
Liner notes: Wolfgang Platzeck

First published in April 1998

Excerpt from the booklet:
There is nothing in me more vast than my love for music, and my love for making music. And where this music (conduction) is concerned, I can only imagine…
But I am no dreamer. I am a realist.
This music is not experimental, avant-garde or abstract. It is realism at its most basic level. Its constant state…curiosity.
The language is music. The vocabulary is conduction.
It is social logic; dialogic and dialectic. The art of combining parts of variables (histories) to make a whole.
To construct or to deconstruct.
One analysis of time through music.
As dialectic, we are both participating in the art of logical discussion…cultural, social, geographic dialogue.
As process:
Conduction is a coherent system (vocabulary) of signs and gestures that are to be interpreted, translated or explained by fundamental principles. These principles could be moral, intuitive, conscious or subconscious, rarely arbitrary -never random.
As music:
It is the collective interaction of musical histories.
My objective is to evolve a transcultural instinct and dialect with "the new virtuoso".
One organ of total comprehension.

Lawrence D. Butch Morris