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| 0 | LONDON: Cafe Oto |
|---|---|
| P | Friday 6th April, 2012 |
| N | 8:00pm |
First UK shows for Massaker since 1999 when police shut down their London show after a few songs due to excessive volume and the Glasgow date was cancelled just after the neighbouring building caught fire and the block was roped off. Presumably nothing to do with the soundcheck! They'll be joined on the night by one of the founders of European free music, the extraordinary drummer and theatrical provocateur Sven Åke Johansson playing in a trio with Werner Dafeldecker on Bass and Axel Dörner on trumpet.
CASPAR BRÖTZMANN MASSAKER
Primarily active between the mid-eighties to mid-nineties when Massaker recorded 5 LPs, Caspar Brötzmann returned to live performance in 2010 after a 14 year break with his friends Eduardo Delgado Lopez, on bass and vocals, Danny Arnold Lommen on drums. Returning with equal intensity Caspar Brotzmann Massaker is more than just brute force it is deep, sculptural and timeless music.
"...his attack on the instrument — explosive, obstreperous, large scale, textural, timbral — asserts the material facts of string-pickup-amplifier more bluntly than anyone else currently involved in rock" Ben Watson, THE WIRE
In addition to Massaker, Caspar Brötzmann has recorded solo and collaborated with F.M. Einheit of Einstürzende Neubauten and his father, saxophonist Peter Brötzmann.
SVEN ÅKE JOHANSSON TRIO w/ WERNER DAFELDECKER & AXEL DÖRNER
Sven Åke Johansson is a composer and musician, poet and visual artist, author and initiator of several music-theater productions, such as "Die Harke und der Spaten", "Über Ursache und Wirkung der Meinungsverschiedenheiten beim Turmbau zu Babel" together with Alexander von Schlippenbach (Hebbel Theater Berlin). He is most well-known as a virtuosic drummer, but also performs as a singer and speaker.
Sven Åke Johansson has had numerous exhibitions, book publications, and released more than 50 LP and CD recordings. A major stylistic forerunner within European free improvisational music, he developed a European form of free jazz in the 60s together with Alexander von Schlippenbach, Peter Kowald and Peter Brötzmann.
He has collaborated with Alexander v. Schlippenbach, Rüdiger Carl, Hans Reichel, Dietmar Diesner, Axel Dörner, as well as cooperations with Shelley Hirsch, Andrea Neumann, Manfred Schoof, Ludwig Gosewitz, Thomas Kapielski, Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Heiner Goebbels, Blixa Bargeld, and others.
WERNER DAFELDECKER / double bass, electronics
Dafeldecker's musical projects are often inspired and decuced by outside influences such as architecture, physics, photography and film. Longtime sound and structure studies and the formulation of distinct articulations are in the center of his work as a composer and musician and are parallel to technological developments often connected with with electronic formats.
He has performed and recorded with Christian Fennesz, Martin Brandlmayr, Dean Roberts, Chris Abrahams, Patrick Pulsinger, David Sylvian, Christof Kurzmann and many more...
AXEL DÖRNER / trumpet
Dörner is one of the most distinctive and versatile voices in European creative music, his playing distinguished by its great concentration and focus, perfect timing, sensitivity to group dynamics, and a textural range that seems to defy physical possibility, from solid sheets of white noise to impeccably articulated pure tones, massively elongated slurs to sharp percussive shocks.
His range of collaborations is also impressive, from steely modernism with Keith Rowe to playing the complete works of Thelonius Monk with Alexander von Schlippenbach, small groups such as The Contest of Pleasures (with John Butcher and Xavier Charles) and Toot (with Thomas Lehn and Phil Minton), larger projects such as Phosphor and Otomo Yoshihde's New Jazz Orchestra, and duos with Angharad Davies, Mattin, Diego Chamy and Fred Lonberg-Holm.
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