Cassiber

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Cassiber
General information
Genre (s) No wave , punk jazz , RIO
founding 1982
resolution 1992
Last occupation
Christoph Anders
Keyboards , guitar, bass guitar , sampler, vocals
 Heiner Goebbels
Alto saxophone , tenor saxophone, bass clarinet , trumpet , trombone
Alfred Harth until 1986
Drums , percussion , electronics
 Chris Cutler
Guests
Drums
 Peter Prochir
voice
 Ernst Stötzner
Alto saxophone
 Shinoda Masami
Saxophone, electronics
 Dietmar Diesner
guitar
 René Lussier

Cassiber was a German-British avant rock band that existed between 1982 and 1992 and with which the musicians wanted to find "a new aesthetic for the 1980s". In doing so, they “grabbed scraps of quotations from jazz , punk , rock and new music and try to break all of these directions at their core.” The band name alludes to the cash register .

history

In August 1982 the three Anders, Goebbels and Harth, who had worked together as saxophonists in the Frankfurt Left Radical Wind Orchestra , met with Chris Cutler for an eleven-day improvisation session in the Swiss Sunrise Studio; the idea was to form a small band with which they could reach a different audience. Cassiber's approach was to improvise complete pieces which, however, were not written in the tonal language of free jazz , but instead contained recognizable melodic and rhythmic structures, even if they were abandoned again. After a “frustrating afternoon” in the studio, the recordings from the first five days were completely discarded. Nevertheless, there was enough material for a double LP. On October 1st the band performed at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival ; thereby "the quartet " Cassiber "frightened part of the audience out of the hall of the Alte Oper , tore the other part into storms of enthusiasm."

In the next few years the band played at many festivals in Europe, but also performed in Asia, Brazil and North America. In 1983 and 1984 there were collaborations with other bands such as Duck and Cover and Cassix . After Harth left the group in 1986, the group continued to work as a trio and, after Chris Cutler, "took a different approach to composition: more thoughtful and more dramatic"; The trio brought guest soloists for individual concerts. Cassiber gave one last concert on December 13, 1992 in Lisbon .

meaning

Fred Frith assessed the music as follows: “Collisions between raw punk energy and free jazz passion were not unusual at the time, but they could be combined with samples and beats , with crazy songwriting , and a combination of influences from Eisler to Prince and Robert Wyatt , in a performance of sheer virtuosity, that was stunning, especially when it was passed off as political action on top of that. "

Discography

  • Man or Monkey? (1982, 2xLP, Riskant + CD Recommended Records , UK)
  • Beauty and the Beast (1984, LP, Riskant + LP, CD Recommended Records, UK)
  • Perfect Worlds (1986, LP, Recommended Records, UK)
  • The Way It Was (1986–1989, CD, Recommended Records, UK; ed. 2012)
  • A Face We All Know (1990, CD, Recommended Records, UK)
  • Live in Tokyo (1992, 2xCD, Recommended Records, UK)
Complete edition
  • The Cassiber Box (1982–1992, 6 CDs + DVD, Recommended Records, UK; ed. 2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cit. n. Andrew Jones Plunderphonics, Pataphysics & Pop Mechanics Wembley 1995, p. 59
  2. ↑ a b Cassiber with explosive power Der Spiegel November 1, 1982
  3. ↑ Chris Cutler: Duck and Cover . In: Chris Cutler [website] . Retrieved February 15, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b quot. n. Michael Rüsenberg Cassiber 1982-1992
  5. ^ Tale of a Dictator
  6. ↑ Live in Tokyo review Gnosis (ed. 1998)