a r t i s t : Van Bergen/Prins/Fennesz
t i t l e : Dawn
d a t e : 2002
l a b e l : grob
g e n r e : Avantgarde
r l s. d a t e : Feb/2010
t r a c k s : 01
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 60,5 MB
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Dawn is a classical improvisation record, everything but post
modern. It was recorded at the legendary Total Music Meeting
of Free Music Production in November 2000. Dawn is a
composition played off the cuff of nearly 42 minutes. All the
highs and lows of a longer composition are on this recording:
searching and finding, restrained groping and violent
erupting....
The decisive factor, however, is that this music is played by
people who have nothing or very little to do with this
attitude, by Gert-Jan Prins (see his solo record Prins Live,
GROB210), by the saxophone player and composer Peter van
Bergen (Ensemble LOOS but also projects with Georg Graewe or
Wolfgang Fuchs) and by Christian Fennesz, one of the
superstars of the electronica jet set (see his current MEGO CD
Endless Summer; he can also be heard on the GROB CD (also on
Mimeo-Electric Chair + Table). Via their strictly "electronic
thinking" (one hears a saxophone, of course, but the
appearance deceives), these musicians break away from the
approach on musical material developed within free
improvisation in the last 40 years. On the other hand, this
thinking does not lead to a "clicks 'n' cuts" aesthetic, but
rather to a musical process that has been worked hard for,
provisional, not completed, but gripping at every moment: what
will happen next? What is coming? What breaks off and grows
anew afterwards? Hybrid music.
Gert-Jan Prins
Peter van Bergen
Christian Fennesz
(http://www.churchofgrob.com)
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01-Dawn [41:40]
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41:40 min