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10 Songs Of Love And Hate (For The Sake Of So-called „Good Old Times“)

Leonard Cohen: Coming Back To You

Neil Young: Like A Hurricane

John Lennon: Stand By Me

John Hiatt: Have A Little Faith In Me

Ian Hunter: Bastard

Joni Mitchell: A Case Of You

The Magnetic Fields: The Book Of Love

David Bowie: „Heroes“

Paul Simon: Further To Fly

Tom Waits: Somewhere

Tourdaten Österreich und Deutschland
 
17.10. AU-Wien, Arena Big Hall
21.10. Berlin, Berghain
23.10. Leipzig, Schauspiel Leipzig (w/Pharmakon)
24.10. Köln, Gebäude 9 (w/Pharmakon)
25.10. Hanover, MusikZentrum (w/Pharmakon)
27.10. Hamburg, Kampnagel (w/Pharmakon)
29.10. Dresden, Beatpol (w/Pharmakon)
30.10. Wiesbaden, Schlachthof (w/Pharmakon)
31.10. Karlsruhe, Jubez (w/Pharmakon)
01.11. München, Feierwerk (w/Pharmakon)

 


 
 
 
Listen. Sie dienen der Vermessung, erfordern Einteilungen, Bewertungen, Flurbereinigung. Listen. Sie dienen der Erledigung, sind Handlungsimperative. Listen. Sie mahnen, rufen zur Einkehr auf. Keine Liste, die nicht irgendwas davon hätte oder alles zugleich. Es wäre schön, eine Liste zu haben oder zu machen, die einfach nur da ist, ohne all das. Das wäre doch mal was!
 
 
 


 

Es gibt Listen des Besten, Listen des Blödesten, des Nervendsten, des Wunderlichsten. Immer im Vergleich zu … .

Dies ist eine nicht ganz zufällige Liste des Unerledigten. Eine Liste mit offenem Aufforderungsgehalt. Eine Liste zum Nicken, Stirnrunzeln und Kopfschütteln. Eine Liste mit offenem Aufforderungsgehalt. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die 88 (oder weniger) Tasten, weiss und schwarz, Elfenbein und Ebenholz. Mehr als fünfzig Mal.
 
 
 


 
 
 
Ambiq – ambiq. Arjunamusic tr
The Bad Plus – The Rite Of Spring. Masterworks tr
Diego Barber/Craig Taborn – Tales. Sunnyside d
Espen Berg – Acres Of Blue. Atterklang s
Terje Bjørklund – Yesterday Song. Reflect
Ketil Bjørnstad – Sunrise. ECM
Blacktop – #One. Babel (Orphy Robinson/Pat Thomas + Steve Williamson) tr
Paul Bley – Play Blue. Oslo Concert. ECM s
Johanna Borchert – Desert Road. Yellow Bird
Michiel Borstlap – Dance Of The Soul. Gp Music s
Kris Bowers – Heroes + Misfits. ConcordJazz
Uri Caine – Callithump. Winter&Winter s
Uri Caine – Gershwin Rhapsody In Blue. Winter&Winter
Simão Costa – π_ANO PRE·CAU·TION PER·CU·SSION ON SHORT CIRCUIT. Clean Feed. s
Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman Quartet – Birdies For Lulu. Intakt
Kris Davis – Massive Threads. Thirsty Ear s
Kris Davis Trio – Waiting For You To Glow. Clean Feed tr
Matthieu Donarier/Albert van Veenendaal – The Visible Ones. Clean Feed d
Kaja Draksler – The World Of Many Others. Clean Feed s
Jozef Dumoulin – A Fender Rhodes Solo. Bee Jazz s
Emler/Tchamitchian/Echampard – Sad And Beautiful. La Buissone tr
Larry Goldings/Peter Bernstein/Bill Stewart – Ramshackle Serenade. Pirouet tr
Alexander Hawkins – Song Singular. Babel s
Alexander Hawkins Ensemble – Step Wide, Step Deep. Babel
Pablo Held – Elders. Pirouet
Hess/AC/Hess – Spacelab. Gateway tr
3xHess – Music For Mum & Dad. Gateway tr
Abdullah Ibrahim – Mukashi – once upon a time. Intuition
Dollar Brand – African Piano. ECM s
Vijay Iyer – Mutations. ECM 9 s
Kappeler/Zumthor – Babylon-Suite. ECM d
Joachim Kaufmann/Frank Gratkowski/Wilbert de Joode – geäder. gligg records tr
Søren Kjægaard/Ben Street/Andrew Cyrille – Syvmileskridt. ILK Music tr
LABTRIO – Fluxus. Outnote Records tr
Joachim Kühn/Alexey Kruglov – Moscow. ACT d
Hans Lüdemann Trio Ivoire – Timbuktu. Intuition tr
Elan Mehler – Early Sunday Morning. Challenge s
Matt Mitchell – Fiction. Pi Recordings s
Simon Nabatov/Matthias Schubert – Descriptions. Leo records d
Umberto Petrin – Traces And Ghosts. Leo Records s
Anton Pett/Christoph Baumann – Northwind Boogie. Leo Records d
Iiro Rantala/Michael Wollny/Leszek Mozdzer – Jazz At Berlin Philharmonic I. ACT tr
Angelica Sanchez/Wadada Leo Smith – Twine Forest. Clean Feed d
Julie Sassoon – Land Of Shadows. Jazzwerkstatt s
Aki Takase Le Planète – Flying Soul. Intakt
Too Noisy Fish – Fight Eat Sleep. RAT Records tr
Colin Vallon/Patricde Moret/Julian Sartorius – Le Vent. ECM tr
Albert van Veenendaal/Alan Purves – and the cowgirl kept on dancing. Brokkenrecords
Jeroen vcan Vliet – Wait. Challenge s
 

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Michael Gira: „Breathing and having a heartbeat are things that we’re completely not conscious of most of the time and take for granted. As someone who’s had severe bouts of asthma, I’m conscious of what it feels like to not be able to breathe. I was hospitalized for it. And this song was written after a particularly severe asthma attack. But now that I stopped smoking cigarettes, hopefully that will be gone. I had this event once when I was alone at my old house after my divorce. I was sitting, and suddenly I coughed, and whatever was in there lodged in my throat. I just couldn’t breathe at all, and I was by myself. I panicked. I really started to pass out and realized I was fucking going to die if I didn’t do something. So I just threw myself down on the ground repeatedly, and finally got a pinhole. I was slowly able to calm down and expand that pinhole and get oxygen. It took maybe 10 minutes. And then I lit a cigarette and had a beer. [laughs]“ (source: Pitchfork review, the song „Oxygen“ is on the new Swans album „To Be Kind“.)

Expat Canadian piano star Paul Bley, the man with the vision to hire the unknown Ornette Coleman back in the 1950s, was 75 when this solo concert was recorded by ECM’s Jan Erik Kongshaug and Manfred Eicher at the Oslo jazz festival – still exposing his profound knowledge of jazz to unflinching spontaneous reexamination. All the pieces are originals except for Sonny Rollins’s Pent-Up House, and if the blues remain a constant undercurrent, they’re forever being harried, stretched, compressed and artfully disguised. Bley often floats in a pulseless dream of molten runs and pealing trills, but familiar-sounding hooks keep appearing, even if over chords that seem to belong to other melodies entirely. Way Down South Suite begins like a sepulchrally slow jazz blues, then swings, stops dead, and resumes in flinty single notes and dense, clipped runs. Flame is like a Thelonious Monk ballad, but the resolutions to its phrasing spin and prance as if trying to break free of the song. Pent Up House is a thoroughly recognisable but flirtatious dance with the original. It’s personal, meditative, occasionally sombre music, but it couldn’t be anyone other than Paul Bley behind it.

– John Fordham, in today’s edition of The Guardian