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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WERNER LÜDI SUNNYMOON – Serendipity (C W R – CW 1009 / LP-1987)

Label: Creative Works Records – CW 1009

Format: Vinyl, Album, LP / Country: Switzerland / Released: 1987

Style: Contemporary Jazz, Free Improvisation

Recorded at Soundville Recording Studios, Luzern, January 1987.

Mastered At – CBS Studios, London

Design – Guy Bettini

Engineer – René J. Zingg

Producer – Werner Lüdi Sunnymoon

Liner Notes Verfasser: Werner Lüdi

Matrix / Runout (Side A): CW 1009 A-1 SVS 206 A-1

Matrix / Runout (Side B): CW 1009 B

The cover jacket has two large holes (front and back) and is printed inside so, if it's empty, you can see a far moon in a black sky and a far sun in a clear sky. Insert the inner sleeve and you get a black or white sky. Insert the double insert and you may have a lunar footprint and a sun crown, or a globe with trees and a second one with an ancient map on it, or a washing machine door and an actress' nice face and so on.

side A

A1 - Second Story Twilight : A Manhattan Melodrama ......................................... 7:44

A2 - Jungle Moon In June ..................................................................................... 5:12

A3 - Carolina Morning ........................................................................................... 4:51

side B

B1 - Macho Duck Disco ........................................................................................ 6:06

B2 - Santorini Sailing Sun ..................................................................................... 5:45

B3 - Blindado Flying Circus .................................................................................. 5:18

Personnel:

Werner Lüdi – alto saxophone

Hans Koch – tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone

Stephan Wittwer – electric guitar

Martin Schütz – bass, cello

Dieter Ulrich – drums, percussion, bugle

Werner Lüdi (April 22, 1936 in Poschiavo, Graubünden – June 21, 2000 in Zurich) was a Swiss jazz musician (alto and baritone saxophone) and author.

Lüdi spent the early years of his life in Val Poschiavo and spent his youth in Landquart, where he played accordion in a band. He became familiar with cool jazz and played baritone saxophone in Tone Schädler's band. In 1958, he moved to Hamburg, where he participated in jam sessions. In jam sessions, he got to know Peter Brötzmann.

In 1964, he made a tour as an alto saxophonist with Gunter Hampel's band for one year and then, he went to Munich, where he made jam sessions with Pierre Favre. Then, he came back to Switzerland in 1966 and started to work as a photographer in a public relations office and copywriter in an advertising agency.

In 1981, Lüdi came again to jazz scene and founded the group Sunnymoon with Stephan Wittwer, Fredy Studer and Léon Francioli. In 1984, Hans Koch, Martin Schütz, Timo Fleig and Lüdi played free improvisation in this group. Later, Koch, Schütz, Lüdi and Paul Lovens performed together. At the end of 1980s, he played with Mani Neumeier, Wädi Gysi and the trumpet player Mich Gerber as the group Blauer Hirsch.

He has performed also with Brötzmann's Märzcombo, Butch Morris, Sainkho Namtchylak, Peter Kowald, William Parker, Saadet Türköz, Burhan Öçal, Peter Conradin Zumthor and Daniel Seiler.

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X-COMMUNICATION (Martin Schütz / Hans Koch) – X-Communication (1991)

Label: FMP – FMP CD 33
Format: CD, Album; Country: Germany - Released: 1991
Style: Free Improvisation
Track 1 recorded on November 3, 1990 during the 'Total Music Meeting' at the 'Quartier Latin', Berlin.
Track 2 recorded on December 15, 1990 at the Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal. (This recording was commissioned by the Westgerman Radio/WDR-Köln).
First published in May 1991
Music By [All Music By] – X-Communication
Painting [Drawing] – Hal Foster; Photography By – Dagmar Gebers
Producer – Jost Gebers

                                                                                                         Hans Koch
Review:

X-Communication is a band that is not a band, a group of improvisers who come together to play concerts once in a while and hopefully document them with a recording or two, like this one. With Schutz and Reichel you have a strong component, in Morris you have a brass component, with Koch you have reeds which brings drummer Paul Lovens into the fold, along with vocalist extraordinaire Shelley Hirsch, violinist Jason Hwang, and trombonist Dino Deane.

                                                                                                    Shelley Hirsch

                                                                                                     Martin Schütz

There is no comprise in the music played by X-Communication. This is a group that looks for freedom at every turn, every window, and every pace. They look to turn each musician loose from the ensemble to explore with the support of the ensemble whatever it is she or he feels compelled to journey toward. The manner in which this group communicates its findings is for an entire article perhaps to discuss. The sounds, tones, textures, and timbral relationships encountered here are unique to this band; they have not been touched on before, and they will not be encountered again. These colors, so many shades of the dark, are beautiful to hear, to feel, and internalize. That they are beyond rational sense and discussion, and are facts worth celebrating.

 ~ by Thom Jurek



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