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Free Electric Supergroup

by EUPHORIUM_freakestra

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Free Electric Supergroup was originally released in 2010 as a double CD. You can buy it here: www.euphorium.de/rubriken/records/freeelectricsupergroup.htm

DESCRIPTION:
The E U P H O R I U M _ f r e a k e s t r a of 2007 gives us a fully amplified menu. The double album serves as an environment to celebrate some amazing waves of audible group dynamics. Fourteen young and middle aged musicians using eight electric guitars are joining EUPHORIUM‘s large ensemble of that year. They are attracting each other in different constellations to form an adventurous tour throughout a wide range of styles including radical experiments of sound. The multiple structure of the Free Electric Supergroup opens with a session on electrifying grooves recalling musical situations feasted by Miles Davis around 1970. For the title of this first piece Frank Zappa was presumedly asked for suggesting posthumously a special sounding band name. Listen to this ultimate funk made up by a sensationally tempered Frank Möbus on guitar and the sensitive yet knocking alto sax lines of Hartmut Dorschner paired with the dancing drums and basses of Jens Schneider, Matthias Macht und Jacob Müller. As the course of the Free Electric Supergroup moves it's electric organ to a modulating area of some twelve-and-more-tone music the trumpet of Axel Dörner no longer produces any simple signals but becomes an instrument that establishes some complex fields of different sorts of noise. Doubtlessly the hit of the recording is done by a guitar trio with drums and electric bass starring Rudi Feuerbach with his delicious yet heroic overkill of melodic construction. From time to time the Free Electric Supergroup contracts to a devastative noise band called trnn that EUPHORIUM mastermind Oliver Schwerdt and his co-director Friedrich Kettlitz maintained with Alexander Schubert before the latter turned out to be a sought multi media composer. At the end of the story a special appearance of Phil Minton seems to settle down in the darkest yet most enlighted rows of an obscure backstage stiring a strange ,Kompott‘ within a neo-dadaistic narration of Kettlitz.

credits

released February 8, 2010

PERSONNEL:
Axel Dörner - trumpet
Hartmut Dorschner - soprano saxophone
Frank Möbus - electric guitar
Rudi Feuerbach - electric guitar
Max Loeb - electric guitar
Timo Klöckner - electric guitar
Ronny Graupe - electric guitar
Alexander Schubert - electric guitar
Friedrich Kettlitz - electric guitar
Oliver Schwerdt - digital synthesizer, electric organ
Thomas Lehn - analogue synthesizer
Jacob Müller - electric bass
Matthias Macht - drums
Jens Schneider - drums


REVIEWS:
The opening piece on the first disc sounds alot like Agartha by Miles Davies with that slamming groove, sly soprano sax and layers of electric guitars. I kept waiting for Miles to jump in, although the soprano sax and multiple guitars also evoke the same voodoo spirits. A few of these guitarists get a chance to stretch out play some of those great Peter Cosey/Reggie Lucas-like licks. The eerie organ, synths and bent trumpet sounds also sound like they were inspired by Miles' Get Up With It sessions. Consistently creative and surprisingly engaging nonetheless.
Bruce Lee Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery

Die Free Electric Supergroup kreischt, klirrt, groovt, fetzt, dröhnt und rast ekstatisch, ohne auf melodische und harmonische Ruhepunkte gänzlich zu verzichten.
Rainer Bratfisch, Jazzpodium

Mit Kopfsprung ist man gleich mittendrin in weiß der Teufel nach welchen Rezepten oder Signalen gejamten Yo Miles!-Adventures und harmolodischen Brain-Trips. Aber Drive ist nicht das ganze Pulver, das diese Supergroup zu verschießen hat. Die Elektroniker weben Soundflächen, die Gitarren machen sich ganz zart und transparent, die Trompete macht sich dünn. Bis der Bass wieder den Puls hoch treibt und die Gitarren sich verzahnen zu georgelten Breitseiten. Dörner bricht nach Panthalassa auf, irrwitzige Gitarrenerfindungen ragen heraus, Manches klingt wie auf dem Kopf gespielt, oder rückwärts, oder live-evil. Dann bilden die Keyboards eine träge Masse, die Trompete gurgelt, die Gitarren ziehen Fäden. Auf 38 Minuten folgen weitere 54, mit noch verschärfter Brainstormingkapazität. Die Electronics spotzen auf allen Kanälen, die Gitarren verklumpen als brausender Rumor zusammen mit knarzigem Synthienoise zu einer Splatterorgie. SUPER! Und rotzfrech wird gleich wieder auf harmlos gemacht und wie selbstvergessen an losen Fäden gezupft. Dann wieder Krach, ein Lehn-Solo, gefolgt von kollektiven Klangwolken, hintergründigem Donnerhall und einer einsamen Rhythmusgitarre. Die natürlich nicht einsam bleibt, auch wenn ein Großteil der Formation Kaffeepause macht. Hackende Gitarre und knatterndes Drumming, Wahwahbluesiness, stechender Noise, sehr free, sehr electric, aber ganz weit weg von Miles inzwischen. Bis Bass und schneidender Orgelsound halbwegs wieder auf Funkiness umschwenken und die Drummer zeigen, dass es auch ihnen in den Fingern juckt. Aber der Groove wird lange auf kleiner Flamme geröstet und nur von der Rhythmsection. Als letztes Tschüss erklingt zarte Gitarren-Bass-Träumerei.
Rigobert Dittmann, Bad Alchemy

RECORDED by Kai Mäder on December 9th 2007 in Wachau
MIXED by Kai Mäder
EDITED by Oliver Schwerdt & Friedrich Kettlitz
MASTERED by Gilbert Eiche
DESIGNED by Oliver Schwerdt
COVER PHOTOGRAPHED by Sebastian Wack
DOCUMENTARILY PHOTOGRAPHED by Christian Hüller
FIGURES SCULPTURED by Friedrich Kettlitz
PRODUCED by Oliver Schwerdt & Friedrich Kettlitz

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