DESCRIPTION:
With Dal Ngai the E U P H O R I U M _ f r e a k e s t r a at an age of three years is reborn as an ensemble with two godfathers of contemporary music. On the one hand it called Daddy and on the spot appears Günter Baby Sommer, the great East German free improvising drummer and percussionist who once became famous with his breath-taking trio with Wadada Leo Smith and Peter Kowald. On the other hand the E _ f called Daddy and Friedrich Schenker, the trombone virtuoso from the R u n d f u n k - S i n f o n i e o r c h e s t e r L e i p z i g and the G r u p p e N e u e M u s i k H a n n s E i s l e r likewise composer of voluptuous avantgarde pieces, jumps in with his large beard, open mind and wondrous brass sounds. Honorably the alto player Hartmut Dorschner had acted as an intermediary between the old guys. And now director Oliver Schwerdt put on his young folks to the legends. The albums combines the music of an extremly adventurous evening in 2002 ‒ listen to the snippet of the happening part of the show called Die mitfühlende Bühnenschaft ‒ with a radical variety of different styles. So an earthed groove piece with a growling jazz hits it’s flow to an aleatorically improvised open space constructed with nothing less than a few hammerings on a grand piano. Listening to the entire seventeen-part work you will find yourself on a unique world trip between hardcore techno and free jazz boiling somnambulistic bacchanals in a delicious niche of unconsidered fear.
credits
released January 1, 2004
PERSONNEL:
Michael Glucharen - trumpet
Friedrich Schenker - trombone
Hartmut Dorschner - alto saxophone
Birg Borgenthal - grand piano, percussion, little instruments, electric piano, violine, electronics
Friedrich Kettlitz - electric guitar
Gero Kuntermann - electric guitar
Peter Lorenz - synthesizer
Sebastian Waack - electric bass
Hermann Grüneberg - percussion
Jens Schneider - drums, cymbals
Günter Sommer - drums, cymbals, percussion
REVIEWS:
Die abgefahrendste Scheibe, die seit langem die Region verlassen hat.
Peter Korfmacher, Leipziger Volkszeitung
Dal Ngai ist spannender erzählt als manches Hörbuch und so aufregend, dass man nach wenigen Augenblicken alles stehen und liegen lässt, um nur noch zu hören. Tolles, sehr freies, abenteuerlustiges Album!
Ulrich Kriest, Intro
Ohne jeden schalen Kompromiss.
Jörg Konrad, Jazzpodium
Man kann sich amüsieren.
Nina Polaschegg, NZfM
RECORDED by Gilbert Eiche, Heiner Kaffke & Hartmut Dorschner on November 10th 2002 at naTo/Leipzig and 2002-03 by Gero Kuntermann & Oliver Schwerdt
MIXED & MASTERED by Gilbert Eiche
EDITED by Oliver Schwerdt
ENTITLED & DESIGNED by Oliver Schwerdt & Friedrich Kettlitz
PHOTOGRAPHED by Ute Noth, Carina Prömel, Oliver Schwerdt
PRODUCED by Oliver Schwerdt
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