Urs Leimgruber
blue log: ten pieces for saxophone CD 1137 Urs Leimgruber - ss, ts recorded at Radio DRS, Zürich Switzerland 14.-15.01.1999 cover: André Meier, Franziska Kolb released 11.01.2000 
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«The pieces … are excellent examples of the way he transcends the sound of the instrument by placing emphasis on tongue slaps, shrills, rich multiphonics, and sharp altissimo in order to create something so alien that it would appear as if it were originating from another source. He creates brilliant phrases and imposes an overall structure on the implied techniques, lending an overall motive to the pieces.» «...queste dieci improvvisazioni nelle quali le possibilità offerte dagli strumenti - dal fraseggio melodico fina alla completa decostruzione - vengono vagliate con dovizia di particolari, competenza e classe di grado superiore.» «Leimgruber geht es nicht um plakative Wirkung, sondern um die Ursache: den Klang, die Musik. Sie formiert sich in subtil herausgearbeiteten Nuancen in einer Dynamikbandbreite von kontrolliert Energischem bis kaum wahrnehmbar Filigranem. Leimgrubers Ansatz ist radikal, aber grund seiner emotionalen Wärme immens sinnlich.» «Leimgruber escalates from 'mouse in the skirting board' styled key scurryings, to simulated throat singing and full blown Ayler attack in a way that will either have you crawling up the wall or baying for more.» «Un trabajo elaborado con todas las posibilidades que parece que Urs leimgruber ha sabido extraer de su saxofón.» «Was Urs Leimgruber aus enem Sopran- und Tenorsaxophon herauszuholen vermag, überschreitet fast die Vorstellungskraft.» «Blue Log ist eine Meisterleistung ohne Abstriche.» «Those who enjoy hearing barriers broken and experimental sounds pursued appreciate his improvisations. While saxophonists, in particular, should appreciate Leimgruber's unusual abilities, much of his performance, though radically anti-melody, stands on its own as an example of what the saxophone is capable of achieving.» «Leimgruber pushes and drags his life's-breath through every inch of his horn, raising spirited invocations to some Great Beyond. … Difficult yet uniquely compelling, Blue Log includes sounds I've never heard from a saxophone.»
playlist 6.2000, Disco Graphie |
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