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CDR - chic ago

chic ago

Historical compilation of Alfred Harth's collaborations with David Murray, Fred Hopkins, Dougie Bowne, Kent Kessler, Hamid Drake, Vladimir Tarasov, Simon Nabatov, Mark Dresser, Heinz Sauer, Günter Müller, Andres Bosshard, Sonny Sharrock, Phil Minton, Charlie Mariano, Karl Berger, Peter Kowald, Trilok Gurtu and Barry Altshul – recorded 1984-1997
I had done so many processed studio works in addition to numerous analogue live recordings with great musicians in the time frame 1984-1997, I compiled them here:
• Trios with Hamid Drake and Kent Kessler at the "Empty Bottle" in Chicago from 1997.
• I was invited to play and compose at the Frankfurt Jazzfestival. I wished to work on old Korean traditional court music in combination with bluesy players Murray, Hopkins, and Bowne because I think traditional Korean music and jazz have many things in common. Frankfurt radio made this recording as well as a TV recording in 1995, but unfortunately there is no CD. We wanted to continue this project but unfortunately Bowne had a bad accident and Hopkins died.
• The last performance from "QuasarQuartet" (Vladimir Tarasov, Simon Nabatov, Mark Dresser, myself) at the Jazzfestival Saalfelden in 1993. Actually this formation is the only group on this compilation which had put out another CD (POPendingEYE with a different bass player, Vitold Rek).
• 1990-92 German sax player Heinz Sauer and I worked as "Parcours Bleu A Deux" with pedal-activated electronics and words from the Bible (Apocalypse), spoken by Isabel Franke. We performed live in San Francisco and Vancouver.
• I had been working with Sonny Sharrock and Peter Brötzmann in a trio around 1987. There followed this request for Günter Müller and me together (we had been working together at that time too) to create a group for the Willisau festival, "Aleister and Alice" (Günter Müller, Andres Bosshard, Sonny Sharrock, Phil Minton, myself) . In addition to Günter, I brought in Phil Minton and Sonny.
• Last is a composition of mine from the World Music Meeting at the SWF-Radio organized by Joachim Ernst Berendt in 1984 – there exists an LP from this meeting with many different combinations of players on the defunct label "riskant" – but the following information is not on the LP: Just before this recording, a performance took place at my gallery in Frankfurt where players around the world met via telephoned "conference call". With loudspeakers connected to their phones, all the participating groups contributed poems and songs. Simultaneously, I played a tenor solo that went around the world. At that time, the idea of simultaneous global communication was pioneering, and very thrilling to all the participants. Our performance was called "Marry the world by conference call". The SWF radio meeting happened shortly after that in 1984 so I named that composition "Honeymoon After First World Marriage" (Charlie Mariano, Karl Berger, Peter Kowald, Trilok Gurtu, Barry Altshul, myself) .

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