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CD IM MEER
"When Simon assembled us for this new repertoire, he apologized for having lacked the time to write it down. Therefore, as he put it, he had whistled and then transcribed a 45 minutes long melody. So, there were sixteen pages of monody, eleven musicians and three days to make music. Very well. After an initial thorough – hence arduous – reading, we were emboldened. Picture the scene : the violinist is trying to figure out wether he should play even notes rather than odd ones, while the synthesizer has chosen to spend a couple of minutes on that lab that’s laying around. The tuba – everyone’s behind him – skips a line, the alto sax goes clarinet without even bothering to make the necessary transposition, and the trumpet is making sure that, no, Dixies’ Dilemma’s theme is not appropriate in this affair. Three days of disobedient, chaotic – in a good way – work, three days spent checking the relevance of impertinence, which lead us to this music, orchestrated, arranged and played live. One should listen to it as one would watch a reality show: after three days of living together, what group is forming, who’s dissociating from the others, who’s speaking louder, who didn’t take out the trash, and why are they still here whistling?” – Joris Rühl The CD ist available via →Umaut Records or on →bandcamp, where you can as well listen to it. The physical object comes in a punched envelope, letterpress outside, information sheet, photos and a page of the score inside. Edition of 500, but 150 were lost in the post from Germany to France. 
Lucia Mense : recorders by Klaus Grunwald // Joris Rühl : clarinets // Georg Wissel : alto saxophone, clarinet // Udo Moll : trumpet // Matthias Muche : trombone // Carl Ludwig Hübsch : tuba // Michael Griener : drums // Radek Stawarz : violin // Oxana Omelchuk : harmonium // Ketonge : electronics, voice // Simon Rummel : musical glasses, melodica Back
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