Free action
| Free action | |
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| Studio album by Wolfgang Dauner | |
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Publication |
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| Label (s) | SABA |
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Format (s) |
LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
5 |
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running time |
41:11 |
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Studio (s) |
Studio Villingen |
Free Action is a free jazz album by Wolfgang Dauner from 1967. It was recorded on May 2nd, 1967 by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer , produced by Joachim-Ernst Berendt and published by SABA .
background
The cover of Free Action shows a drawing by Dauner “in the style of abstract expressionism, known at the time as action painting .” This signals “a spontaneous concept” which makes “the free interplay of action and reaction the dominant design principle”. It is true that the album contains “exciting and multi-colored interaction music ” that is “ related to the gesture of New Music ” and apparently “a thematic ” and, on the first impression, doesn't seem to follow “any fixed formal scheme”. But the first impression is deceptive; The title and graphic signal are “misleading.” The promised “musical freedom of action” is namely “channeled through an extremely finely woven network of compositional work”, which in the interpreted end result has “traits of the› unheard of ‹”, especially when it comes to free jazz of those years. Dauner himself did not want to call the music on the album jazz.
Dauner wrote down his compositions graphically . With the instrumentation and the line-up with which he went into the studio, he is concerned with the planned staging of contrasts : “These contrasts are important to me on the whole record and in this septet , not only between the two drummers, but also between Eberhard Weber on the cello and the Saarbrücken double bass player Jürgen Karg. And finally between Ponty's violin and Gerd Dudek's tenor saxophone and clarinet. "
The album begins with the comparatively conventional, 24- bar theme Sketch Up and Downer . The pieces Disguise and Free Action Shot , which appear formally unrelated, were underlaid with Iberian, Indian and Moorish motifs. Allegedly, Free Action Shot is one of his most important compositions; There he - as he writes in the cover text - realized everything that he “had in mind.” The listening impression there is shaped by the expanded sound techniques of the strings and the prepared piano , which - at least in the first 30 seconds of the piece - come from New Music Could suggest that this is a work of the so-called e-avant-garde. But this impression is always lost when “energetic play processes develop”; then “the gesture of free jazz” prevails. As soon as Dudek or Dauner play solos, the interaction with the two drummers results in "rhythmic intensity curves and tensions that are not familiar to academic music."
In the piece Collage , Dauner dispensed with a notation and allegedly gave the ensemble the inserts with a wink or nod of the head; As a “spontaneous composing conductor” he used a sign language with which he led the septet “through a rapid succession of contrasting structural units”.
Track list
- Sketch Up and Downer - 9:08
- Disguise - 7:00
- Free Action Shot - 6:03
- My Spanish Disguise - 12:48 pm
- Collage - 6:15
All compositions are by W. Dauner.
reception
Der Spiegel wrote about the album in 1968:
"In the subtle chimes of his› Contemporary Contact ‹[...], far from any routine swing, he groups modal, atonal or microtonal noise webs around changing instrumental centers and sound currents in graduated density with flexible intensity."
John Kelman wrote on All About Jazz :
“First released in 1967, Free Action is another MPS recording that's been long overdue for CD issue and, thanks to Promising Music, it's now possible to hear what was going on in Europe at the time, while largely unknown to North American jazz fans. ”
“First released in 1967, Free Action is another MPS recording that was long overdue for CD release and thanks to Promising Music, it is now possible to hear what was going on in Europe at the time, largely unnoticed by the people North American jazz fans. "
Ken Dryden wrote on allmusic :
"Wolfgang Dauner is not as widely known outside Europe as he ought to be, but this striking reissue is a great starting place for those who are unfamiliar with his work."
"Wolfgang Dauner is not as well known outside of Europe as he should be, but this striking new edition is a good starting point for those who are not familiar with his work."
literature
- Ekkehard Jost European Jazz: 1960–1980. Frankfurt am Main 1987
Individual evidence
- ↑ The CD was in Promising Music published
- ↑ HGBS-Studio ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Ekkehard Jost Europe's jazz. P. 92
- ^ Ekkehard Jost Europe's jazz. P. 93
- ↑ a b c d Iberian bubbled. Retrieved June 20, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Liner Notes
- ^ Ekkehard Jost Europe's jazz. P. 96f.
- ^ Ekkehard Jost Europe's jazz. P. 94
- ^ Wolfgang Dauner: Free Action (2008). Retrieved June 20, 2014 .
- ^ Free Action Review. Retrieved June 20, 2014 .
