Composed, played, recorded and produced by Hans Reichel
Recording periods:
# 1, 8, 9: December 2000 in Berlin
# 2, 5, 7, 11: January 2001 in Berlin, and January 2002 in Wuppertal
# 3, 4, 6, 12, 13: February 2002 in Wuppertal

Mastered by EROC on the Ranch
Liner notes: Hans Reichel
Design: Klaus Untiet (wppt:kommunikation)
Photos by Roberto Masotti, Alexander Zabrin, Süleyman Kayaalp, Hans Reichel
Digifile, detailed booklet with many photos (in colour)
Language version: English

Recommended websites (designed by Hans Reichel):
www.daxo.de
www.yuxo.de

© 2002 a/l/l

Excerpt from the booklet
In 1992 I have released the CD ´Shanghaied on Tor Road´ (FMP CD 046), and its subtitle was "The world´s first operetta performed on nothing but the daxophone". Well, in those days I´ve probably assumed that this new little toy needed to prove something.
First: that it was a real musical instrument, not just a party gimmick. Second: that it could properly function in multi-voiced structures, like a band, or a choir.
It´s about 10 years later now, and a lot of people have seen and listened to it since - and learned that the ´d´ is not at all a misprinted ´s´. Also the music of YUXO was exclusively generated on this little instru-ment (with very few exceptions). But there was no need to prove something any more: the daxophone comes by as if it was the most natural thing of the world.
In late 2001 I was commissioned to compose and record some daxophone music for a new production of the ´Comedy of Errors´ by William Shakespeare. The piece was directed by Martin Duncan from London, and performed at the Maxim Gorki Theatre in Berlin through-out the first half of 2001. (...)
A few parts of YUXO have more or less emerged from the musical material of this project. Sometimes just as a theme or a little sketch, sometimes as an entire song which was refined and put into a new ambience about one year later. (...) H.R.

Also available:
COCO BOLO NIGHTS (FMP 010)
ANGEL CARVER (FMP 015)
MASS-X-COMMUNI-CATION (FMP 033)
SHANGHAIED ON TOR ROAD (FMP 046)
THE DEATH OF THE RARE BIRD YMIR/ BONOBO BEACH (FMP 054)
THE DAWN OF DACHS-MAN...PLUS (FMP 060)
THE VANDOEUVRE CONCERT (FMP 072)
BUBEN...PLUS (FMP 078)

as well as LOWER LURUM (Rastascan BRD 016) € 15,60 (released 1994)