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"HiGH ▀ iNTELLiGeNCE tRoLLS"
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a r t i s t : Urs Leimgruber & John Wolf Brennan
t i t l e : Polyphyllum
d a t e : 1989
l a b e l : LR/Bellaphon
g e n r e : Jazz
r l s. d a t e : May-2004
t r a c k s : 08
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 91,9 MB
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Urs Leimgruber - soprano and tenor saxophone
John Wolf Brennan - piano, prepared piano, bodhrαn
1 Intermezzo - John Wolf Brennan
2 Eleven-One - John Wolf Brennan
3 West 9th Street - John Wolf Brennan
4 Leonor - Urs Leimgruber
5 Integration - Urs Leimgruber
6 Falafel - Urs Leimgruber
7 Thurles - Brennan/Leimgruber
8 Far Out - John Wolf Brennan
Leimgruber, Urs (b. 1952, Lucerne).
Swiss composer, now resident in France, of chamber works that
have been heard throughout Europe; he is also active as a
saxophonist.
Mr. Leimgruber is self-taught as a composer.
Among his honors are the Anerkennungspreis from the city of
Lucerne (1977), fellowships from the Dienemann Kulturstiftung
(1988, Lucerne) and the cultural department of the canton and
city of Lucerne (1994) and an award for his entire oeuvre from
the Aargauer Kuratorium (1999). He has received commissions
from the Kulturstiftung Pro Helvetia and the Kunstverein
Heidelberg.
In the 1970s, he co-founded the electric jazz/free music
ensemble OM. Since then, he has been active as an improviser
and has collaborated with Jacques Demierre, Michel Doneda, Fred
Frith, Fritz Hauser, Joδlle LΘandre, Gⁿnter Mⁿller, Lauren
Newton, Barre Phillips, and Keith Rowe.
He has composed much music for the saxophone, including several
commissioned works for the ARTE Saxophone Quartet, and he has
also done projects with the wind quintet of the Berliner
Philharmoniker and Ensemble Bleu. In addition, he has
collaborated with Maria de Alvear, Elena Andreyev, Tim Berne,
Jaap Blonk, JΘr⌠me Bourdellon, Bobby Burri, John Butcher,
Leonzio Cherubini, Gⁿnter Christmann, Jim Denley, Christy
Doran, Tadashi Endo, Walter FΣhndrich, and Pierre Favre.
Other collaborators include Rico Gubler, Edu Haubensak, Fred
van Hove, Felix-Philipp Ingold, Garth Knox, Hans M. Koch,
Franτoise Kⁿbler, Fine Kwiatkowski, Steve Lacy, Joe McPhee,
Mela Meierhans, Klaus Merz, Phil Minton, Ernesto Molinari,
Sunny Murray, and Pauline Oliveros. Lastly, he has worked with
Terry Riley, Elke Schipper, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Martin
Schⁿtz, Louis Sclavis, Bettina Skrzypczak, Harry Sparnaay,
Fredy Studer, Mark Tompkins, Saadet Tⁿrk÷s, Roger Turner, Rolf
Winnewisser, and Otomo Yoshihide.
He has lived in Paris since 1988.
John Wolf Brennan
Pianist and composer John Wolf Brennan, born in Dublin,
Ireland, has been widely acclaimed as an outstanding musician.
His distinctive style, marked by a deep interest in
contemporary archeology, a very personal quest for an
adventurous avantgarde, an ongoing research of his Celtic roots
and his "Swiss watchmaker exactness" ("The Wire") sets him
apart. His compositions cover a wide spectrum of musical
concepts and methods, ranging from piano pieces ("inside and
outside" - prepared and unprepared) to vocal scores
("Night.Shift" - an opera after a libretto by Rudolph Straub,
based on W.H.Auden's "The Age of Anxiety"; "Sculpted Sound",
"Euratorium", "Bestiarium", "PaniConversations", works for
choir), from chamber ("Epithalamium" after James Joyce's
"Chamber Music"; "Alef Bet - an Ori-ental Peace Piece" for
Israeli oboist Ori Meiraz; "A Golly Gal's Way to Galway Bay"
for James Galway, "Nearly Charming") to orchestral works, both
for classical and jazz ensembles, creating music rich in
(a)tonal textures.
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01-Intermezzo [11:28]
02-Eleven-One [07:44]
03-West 9th Street [06:09]
04-Leonor [10:39]
05-Integration [07:15]
06-Falafel [08:44]
07-Thurles [02:54]
08-Far Out [06:02]
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60:55 min
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