Jazz Soundtracks: Original Music from the Arthouse Films of Hansjürgen Pohland 1962-1967

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Jazz Soundtracks: Original Music from the Arthouse Films of Hansjürgen Pohland 1962–1967
Studio album by Attila Zoller

Publication
(s)

2013

Label (s) Sonorama Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

13

occupation

production

Joachim-Ernst Behrendt

Studio (s)

Berlin

chronology
Attila Zoller / Wolfgang Lackerschmid : Live Highlights '92
(2004)
Jazz Soundtracks: Original Music from the Arthouse Films of Hansjürgen Pohland 1962–1967 -

Jazz Soundtracks: Original Music from the Arthouse Films by Hansjürgen Pohland 1962–1967 is a jazz album by Attila Zoller that was recorded in Berlin in 1962, 1966 and 1967 and released posthumously in 2013 on Sonorama Records . It contains music that the guitarist recorded in various line-ups for films by Hansjürgen Pohland .

background

In 1962, Attila Zoller created the music for the soundtrack of Herbert Vesely's Böll film The Bread of the Early Years ; he worked with Joachim-Ernst Berendt . The producer of the film was Hansjürgen Pohland; the jazz fan Pohland knew Zoller personally and gave him the opportunity to compose and improvise film music . The feature film The Bread of the Early Years was one of the highlights of the Oberhausen Manifesto and the beginning of the New German Film . The music for the film was awarded the film ribbon in gold in 1962.

In 1966 Zoller finally wrote music for Pohland's film adaptation of the Grass novella Katz und Maus , then for Pohland's crime film Tamara (1968). The music for Pohland's films was played and recorded by Zoller and his accompanying musicians right in front of the screen.

After being used in Pohland's films, the tape material disappeared in the director's private archive; the publication of the recordings was made possible thanks to the photographer, actor and jazz fan Jan George , who was friends with Pohland and discovered them in Munich. In 2012 the recordings were digitally mastered. The present album contains further film music that Zoller recorded; In 1962 the Viennese music producer Hans Wewerka acquired the rights to the film Das Bread of the Early Years and produced further clips from the film music. Zoller played on these titles with Carlos Diernhammer (piano), Helmut Csucovits (double bass) and Rune Carlsson (drums). The recordings appeared on a vinyl EP in 1962 , a custom-made product for guests at the 15th Cannes International Film Festival , where the film premiered.

In 1966 Joachim Ernst Berendt was so impressed by Zoller's music for cats and mice that he asked Zoller to repeat the recordings in New York in December 1966 with American sidemen; the musicians at Zoller's side included Ron Carter , Albert Dailey and Bobby Thomas . Although this was not the original score, these sessions appeared in 1967 on an album entitled Attila Zoller - Original Soundtrack Cat + Mouse by Saba; with four variations on the film's title theme as well as two other titles that were recorded independently of the New York Sessions and with Jimmy Owens (tp) and Barre Phillips (kb).

Track list

  • Attila Zoller: Jazz Soundtracks (Sonorama - C-76)
  1. Pilenz (original) (cat and mouse) 4:34
  2. Cold Fusion (Short) (Tamara) 2:54
  3. Hedwig's Arrival (bread from the early years) 4:02
  4. Family Bricks (Tamara) 4:56
  5. Mousetip Strut (cat and mouse) 1:26
  6. Light Wind (Tamara) 5:06
  7. Mahlke (original) (cat and mouse) 2:36
  8. Road Song (Original) (Bread of the Early Years) 6:36
  9. Minesweeper (cat and mouse) 1:40
  10. Cold Fusion (Long) (Tamara) 6:06
  11. Adam's Apple (cat and mouse) 1:16
  12. Hedwig's Departure (bread of the early years) 3:00

Film music sessions by Attila Zoller 1962–1967

  • 1962 (Soundtrack: Bread of the Early Years ): Attila Zoller Trio: Attila Zoller (git), Jürgen Ehlers (bass), Kurt Bong (drums).
Hedwig's Arrival, Road Song, Hedwig's Departure
  • April 1962 (album Night Bounce ): Attila Zoller, Carlos Diernhammer (p), Helmuth Csucovits (kb) Rune Carlsson (dr).
Road song, Hedwig's Song, Chickless, Cellar Stairs, Knochta, Night Bounce.
  • 1966 (Soundtrack Katz und Maus ): Pilenz, Mousetip Strut, Mahlke, Minesweeper, Adam's Apple
  • 1967 (Soundtrack Tamara ): Cold Fusion (short version), Family Bricks, Light Wind, Cold Fusion (long version)

reception

The critic of the Neue Musikzeitung wrote: “Like Miles Davis in“ Elevator to the Scaffold ”, Attila Zoller recorded his film scores for“ Bread ”,“ Katz und Maus ”and“ Tamara ”right in front of the screen. He sometimes sounds like the great West Coast guitarists of the fifties or like the psychedelic Gábor Szabó . Like Szabó, he had also played with Chico Hamilton , who provided the music for Roman Polanski'sEkel ”. It was the "jazz pope" Joachim Ernst Berendt who produced the soundtracks at the time and thus made an important contribution to German cinema jazz history. [...] It is Attila Zoller's swinging West Coast sound that carries the film, set in the early forties, into the present, from then and now. "

Individual evidence

  1. Jazz Sountraks at Discogs
  2. ^ Enjott Schneider Handbuch Filmmusik I. Music dramaturgy in New German Film 1990 (2nd edition), p. 289
  3. Information about the album at Sonorama
  4. Soundtracks 2017/04. Neue Musikzeitung, April 27, 2014 (English).