a r t i s t : Between
t i t l e : Silence Beyond Time
d a t e : 2007
l a b e l : Intuition
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Dez/2006
t r a c k s : 10
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 84,8 MB
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BETWEEN stood and still stands for the simultaneity of things
that are really mutually exclusive (Peter Michael Hamel, 2005)
Originally we wanted to call the project B.A.C.H., Peter
Michael Hamel re-calls, when, in 1970, they were looking for
the most unusual name possible for a extremely unusual
formation. ôNaturally we chose in it in part in allusion to
the immortal baroque composer of that name, but above all the
letters stood for ôBetween All Chairs.ö ThatÆs exactly how we
thought of ourselves. But when we discovered that the idiom
doesnÆt even exist in English, we dropped it.ö
What was left was the word ôbetween,ö and the four original
members of the group finally decided on that as the bandÆs
name. And even this slimmed version says a great deal about
the way we saw this project, which was both originary and
original: ôWe always felt our music was something
æin-between,Æ nothing comparable had existed previously,ö
Hamel is still convinced. ôAbove all, our sound existed
between the categories of serious and popular music. You could
never pin us down to a particular category. That still pleases
me today!ö
With the first BETWEEN LP in the series Centerpoint in 1971,
WERGO marked off the framework by which current music that did
not belong to any of the established musical directions would
find a place on the record market. If ôpopular musicö and
ôserious musicö are often difficult to separate today, if pop
music makes use of avant-garde elements like musique concrΦte,
and vice versa (crossover), such approaches were still
breaking new ground in 1970.
Over the ten years of its existence BETWEEN released six
albums on WERGO:
ò Einstieg (1971)
ò And the Waters Opened (1973)
ò Hesse between Music (1974)
ò Dharana (1974)
ò Contemplation (1976û77)
ò Silence beyond Time (1979)
Of these Dharana and Hesse Between Music have already been
released as CDs on WERGO; the others are being reissued now,
with previously unreleased extra tracks, including some from a
Bayerischer Rundfunk concert series (ôMusic between Worldsö)
that ran from 1976 to 1979.
The 1970s live electronics began to conquer the world, but for
that very reason BETWEEN essentially played ôunplugged,ö
playing chamber music on traditional instruments and in the
resulting acoustic framework. At the intersection of acoustic
and electronic sound worlds, BETWEEN anticipated a lot of
developments, and yet it only seemed to be operating on
electronic ground.
By 1980 the group had spent ten years working intensely with
the musical past of each individual; the pieces produced were
extremely varied; BETWEEN had developed an iridescent
combination of classical, avant-garde and pop music and
medieval and Far Eastern music as well as popular ethnic
music. They had gotten closer to the ôdream of the blue flower
between the milestones along the path to a future world
music.ö The members of the group went their own ways, and
Eliscu, Campbell, and Stranz are no longer alive. Even today,
decades later, when the cultural circles have been permeated
as never before, the syn-thesis they have achieved may still
be considered up-to-date.
Musicians:
Roberto Detree - Guitar
Robert Eliscu - Oboe
Peter Michael Hamel - Keyboards
Roger Jannotta - Flue, Saxophone, Clarinet, Oboe
Gary Todd - Bass
Charlie Campbell - Congas
Jeffrey Biddeau - Congas
Sankha Chatterjee - Tablas
Peter Muller - Tanpura
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01-Brain Wave [03:41]
02-Two Alone BY The Waterphone [04:54]
03-Back To The Roots [03:37]
04-Das Molekuel [09:39]
05-Stille Ueber Der Zeit-Silence Beyond Time [06:40]
06-Peaceful Piece [07:04]
07-Opus Magnum [07:56]
08-Dialog [08:09]
09-Movens [04:17]
10-Last Flight [06:23]
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