URS BLÖCHLINGER – Cinema Invisible (Plainisphare ‎– LP 1267-24/25/2LP-1986)

Label: Plainisphare ‎– LP 1267-24/25

Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: Switzerland / Released: 1986

Style: Free Improvisation, Contemporary Jazz

Solo bass saxophone recorded on 26-27 November 1985 at the Old Church, Boswil

Quartet recorded on 11 June and

Octet on 12 June, 1985 at the Hotel Mohren during Jazz In Willisau.

Photography By – Markus Di Francesco

Recorded By – Fanny Pfister / Peter Pfister

Matrix / Runout (Runout A, etched): LP 1267-24-A A.

Matrix / Runout (Runout B, etched): LP 1267-24-B A.

Matrix / Runout (Runout C, etched): LP 1267-25-C B.

Matrix / Runout (Runout D, etched): LP 1267-25-D B.

side 1:

A1 - Jacques Tati Privat ........................................................................................... 11:45

A2 - Line One ............................................................................................................ 1:57

A3 - Flopps Aus Der Mottenkiste ............................................................................. 11:29

side 2:

B1 - Skippy Das Buschkänguru ................................................................................. 8:20

B2 - Geppetto Und Pinocchio (Take 1) .................................................................... 11:15

B3 - Line Two ............................................................................................................. 4:25

side 3:

C1 - Geppetto Und Pinocchio (Take 2) .................................................................... 15:21

C2 - Washing Dishes, Playing War Games ............................................................... 4:07

C3 - Blues For A Turkey ............................................................................................ 3:44

side 4:

D  -  Fish-Wife / Man-Sea, Und Zum Schluss Die Coda ......................................... 22:02

Line-up/Musicians:

Urs Blöchlinger – alto saxophone, sopranino saxophone, bass saxophone

Jürg Ammann – piano, melodica

Thomas Dürst – bass

Martin Schütz – cello

Dieter Ulrich – drums, bugle

Peter Hablützel – sopranino saxophone

Hans Kennel – trumpet

Daniel Mouthon / Kornelia Bruggmann – voice

''Cinema Invisible'' double LP Plainisphare Records, 1986. with Urs Blöchlinger, Jürg Ammann, Thomas Dürst and Dieter Ulrich.

Super rare, early LP from the Swiss label Plainisphare Records.

Swiss jazz saxophonist, flutist and composer, born 4 June 1954 in Wettingen; died 3 March 1995 in Turgi, Switzerland.

''Cinema Invisible'' double LP Plainisphare Records, 1986. with Urs Blöchlinger, Jürg Ammann, Thomas Dürst and Dieter Ulrich.

Super rare, early LP from the Swiss label Plainisphare Records.

After moving from trumpet to guitar, at eighteen he decided to play reed instruments. He attended the Zurich Conservatory. In the mid-70s he collaborated with the pianist Christoph Baumann and the flutist Ruedi Hausermann with whom he combined jazz and comedy in the Jerry Dental Kollekdoof. Later, together with bassist Thomas Drust and drummer Thomas Hiestand, they proposed poetic improvisations that thrilled the audience at the 1982 Willisau Jazz Festival. He was part of the Legfek group and participated in various events...
Blöchlinger committed suicide at the age of forty.

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MAGOG – Live In Montreux '73 (LP-1973 / Evasion Disques – EA 100 812)

Label: Evasion Disques – EA 100 812

Series: Living Now - 3

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: Switzerland - Printed in France / Released: 1973

(Insert a Poem by the Hungarian Poet Endre Ady)

Style: Free Jazz, Free Improvisation

Recorded live at Centre des Congrès, Montreux, 3 July 1973, Switzerland

Engineer: Chris Pennycate

Layout: Studiopizz

Cover, photo: Franz Glose

Matrix / Runout: Side1: EA 100 812 A1

Matrix / Runout: Side2: EA 100 812 A2

A1 - Magog (One - Two - Three) ................................................................ 7:00

A2 - One For Lucky Luke .......................................................................... 10:23

A3 - Tell (One) ............................................................................................ 9:05

B1 - Tell (Two - Three) ................................................................................ 6:08

B2 - Ganz Zum Überfluss Meinte Eusebius Noch Folgendes .................... 6:35

B3 - Mini Rock ............................................................................................ 5:37

B4 - See Waldi ........................................................................................... 8:05

Musicians:

Hans Kennel – trumpet, fluegelhorn, percussion

Andy Scherrer – tenor sax, alto sax, percussion

Paul Haag – trombone, percussion

Klaus Koenig – piano, Fender Rhodes 

Peter Frei – bass

Peter Schmidlin – drums, percussion

Magog were a Swiss sextet who played many concerts throughout Europe in the seventies - including at the prestigious Montreux Festival in 1973, a performance released on LP on the great Evasion label. They also went on to record one album for JAPO/ECM and both LPs became underground classics garnering much praise from Melody Maker at the time.

The groups approach reflected an all embracing attitude to music making that was akin to other groups of the time such as Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band and the more improvisatory explorations of early Weather Report. However Magog had their own very distinct personality and like British jazz of the early 1970's is clearly deserving of rediscovery.

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