Carl Ludwig Hübsch's Longrun Development of the Universe 2 - Is This Our Music?
| Carl Ludwig Hübsch's Longrun Development of the Universe 2 - Is This Our Music? | ||||
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| Studio album by Carl Ludwig Hübsch | ||||
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2005 |
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| Label (s) | Konnex Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
10 |
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running time |
74:10 |
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Studio (s) |
Maarweg Studio 2, Cologne |
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Carl Ludwig Hübsch's Longrun Development of the Universe 2 - Is This Our Music? is an album by the trio of Carl Ludwig Hübsch , Matthias Schubert and Wolter Wierbos , which was recorded in October 2004 and released in 2005 on Konnex Records .
The album
The album is the second album of the Long-Term Evolution of the Universe project ; the first album was released in 2001 on the Cologne label JazzHausMusik . The subtitle of this album, Is This Our Music , refers to Ornette Coleman's LP This Is Our Music (1960), which at the time also pointed resolutely to the future. But by questioning the Coleman title, Hübsch, Schubert and Wierbos emphasize that music develops, often over the long term, and that the question of the shape of one's own music is more exciting than a hasty, possibly dogmatic answer.
Nina Polaschegg wrote about the music on the album in the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik :
- In a nutshell, the music on this CD could be described as jazz , which has internalized the experience of free improvisation, the development of noisy playing techniques and is influenced by the construction ideas of contemporary composing. It is one of the attempts to place elements of jazz like rhythm patterns and melodic spinning in a more abstract context. So there are long stretches pointillist game, short, dense blocks, alternating with elongated chord layers and lines Unisoni who lost in the polyphonic game fugati , abrupt tempo changes, suddenly plummeting jazzy groovy passages and choral sounds Alan .
After the short unison introduction, Fragment 3, comes NGC 2265 , with almost 19 minutes the longest track on the album, where “the listener is really drawn to the music with some well-placed quiet moments”. NGC 2265 , "an exercise in triple counterpoint ," begins "with gentle and cumbersome tuba streaks, fortissimo - and pianissimo eventually lead on Tones" to "hissing Tuba Mouthpiece actions, and pronounced reed -Abstrichen and snapping." Circular game of three musicians develop from the polytonality into a linear movement through “Schubert's furious yowling, Hübsch's puffing blasts of air and Wierbos' extended organ point .” When the saxophonist persistently blows air into his instrument tube, the two deep brass instruments mix modulated grace notes after three quarters of the way it is again in a tango-like passage with tremolo vibrations. The dance-oriented correspondence leads into "the closing Adagio part with plunger -trombone fabric, hissing stops and beeps from the saxophone, and constant underground emphasis through the tuba".
This is followed by the more traditional El Eterno , reminiscent of Charlie Haden and an homage to Che Guevara . Four short fragments are followed by the longer NGC 2270 Terrier , introduced by barking tuba tones, followed by the double counterpoint of the other wind instruments. But the polyphony is soon interrupted by attacks from Schubert and Wierbos. Finally, the trio builds into a “ crescendo of roaring vibrations” that ends abruptly in high-spirited unison. In contrast, in NGC 2274 Chord, "these contrapuntal actions are performed more leisurely," with each instrumental part moving in a parallel line that never touches. Ken Waxman reminds the interplay between saxophone and trombone at times to the duets of Anthony Braxton and George Lewis in the 1970s. Elsewhere, Hübsch makes humming comments on his tuba, until finally all three musicians squeeze sounds into short phrases and then return to playing individual notes. The last track of the album Al Kaphra is an " offbeat -Sammlung of riffs that of Gutbucket " rich, which ends in a crescendo of pleasant vibrating tone. "Explosions of Wierbos and pedal-hiss of Pretty to the" breathtaking final shape change
Track list
- Carl Ludwig Hübsch's Longrun Development Of The Universe 2 - Is This Our Music? (Konnex Records - KCD 5163)
- Fragment 3 - 0:25
- NGC 2265 - 18:48
- EL Eterno - 4:21
- Fragment 1 - 0:32
- Fragment 2 - 0:28
- Fragment 5 - 0:42
- Remembering - 0:43
- NGC 2270 Terrier - 13:59
- NGC 2274 chord - 12:18
- Fragment 4 - 1:15
- Al Kaphra - 7:44
- All compositions are by Carl Ludwig Hübsch
reception
Dave Lynch awarded the album four (out of five) stars in Allmusic and mentions that Hübsch and his colleagues get involved in dialogues of a stream of consciousness that not only involve themselves but also the listener. This ranges from harmoniously harmonious to dissonant passages, from wildly improvised to intricately arranged, from very serious to simply silly, from very densely constructed to sparse and barely audible parts. In addition to his ability to bring every conceivable tone or noise out of the tuba, Hübsch is great as the leader of this mini-ensemble, composing with consideration for the band members, realizing that both Schubert and Wierbo's phenomenal inside-outside Players are who are unmatched in a range of advanced play styles consisting of snorting, gasping, and stuttering; Nevertheless, written notes are also part of this exercise. “The arrangements are demanding, challenging - and funny, steeped in swing and the feeling that three members of a crazy brass band have made their way to a corner of the musical universe where everything or nothing is allowed. [...] If you are interested in music that is keen to experiment, you should lend your ear to Carl Ludwig Hübsch's sound world, meet him halfway and not be deceived. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Nina Polaschegg, review of the album in Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, 5/2006.
- ↑ See CL Hübsch in the liner notes of the album.
- ↑ a b c Review of Dave Lynch's album at Allmusic (English)
- ↑ a b c d Review of Ken Waxman's album