Ulrich Lask
Ulrich "Uli P." Pütz Lask (* 1954 ) is a German musician ( alto saxophone , synthesizer , electronics) and composer .
Live and act
Lask studied from 1972 to 1975 at the Hochschule für Musik Rheinland . From 1978 to 1982 he worked with Theo Jörgensmann , mainly in his quartet, but also in the group Grotesk around Muck Groh (album of the same name 1980). He can be heard on Jörgensmann albums such as Go Ahead Clarinet (1978) and Song of BoWaGe (1979). From 1979 to 1981 he directed the Urban Music Ensemble , a 15-piece orchestra that u. a. performed at the Moers Festival . The album Schweinhundt was created in 1981 for Trikont under the band name Uli Hundt & Die Betablocker . Lask recorded two albums with Maggie Nichols and Meinolf Bauschulte for the Munich ECM label , Lask (1981) and Lask 2: Sucht und Order (1984), in which he added German lyrics to his music. According to Michael Rüsenberg, the first of these albums is considered to be "a brilliant achievement: a pioneering symbiosis for jazz of the time clock aesthetics of the foaming (sequencer) electronics with the vocal artistry of Maggie Nichols, which cannot be tamed by a time corset."
In 1985 Lask moved from Aachen to Paris, where music for films and multi-media productions (for the Center Pompidou , Musée d'Orsay , Louvre ) and only a few pure audio projects such as Melodia Povera , a collection of alto saxophone Solo pieces were created. In 1995 the album Indean Poa followed at CMP Records , which includes ensemble recordings from 1985 to 1993. He has also occasionally appeared in productions by Walter Quintus ( Quintus Project 1987), Jack Bruce ( Somethin Else , CMP) and Özay Fecht ( Man I Love , 1995). In 2005 the solo album Polar Circles, recorded in the church of Arjeplog in Lapland, Sweden, was released on Nabel Records in 2003 and 2004 . The album Lametta Lagra Lama continues this solo project, partly with the participation of other musicians.
Discographic notes
- Lametta Lagra Lama / Arjeplog - Promenaden (Nabel, 2008), with Sebastian Gramss , Barre Phillips , Paul Lovens , Albrecht Maurer , Jürgen Sturm , Anders Rünnholm, Annette Maye
- Melodia Povera II (Nabel, 2008), solo
- Anirahtak - Ulrich Lask - Jürgen Sturm: Lorelei (Nabel, 2010)
Web links
- Brief portrait
- Ulrich Lask at Allmusic (English)
- Ulrich Lask in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ulrich Lask at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lask, Ulrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pütz Lask, Ulrich; Lask, Uli P. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German jazz musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |