Reviews that mention Maarten Altena
December 11, 2020
Why Not? Porto Nova Revisited
ezz-thetics 1106
London Jazz Composers Orchestra
That Time
NotTwo MW 1001-2
Peter Kowald Quintet
Peter Kowald Quintet
Corbett vs Dempsey CD 0070
Athanor
Live At The Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf 1978
The Lost Tapes Of Austrian Free-Jazz Avantgarde – Vol. 1
Black-Monk BMCD-03
Hershoo Beshoo Group
Armitage Road
We Are Busy Bodies WABB-063
Something in the Air: Care and Craftsmanship Means that Unusual Sessions are Back in Circulation
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February 14, 2005
Mit dem NMUI in SO 36 ‘79
GROB 650/OBCD 10
More than an artifact, but less than a discographical revelation, this CD restores to circulation one of the Berlin-based label FMP’s few 45-rpm singles. Released in the mid-1980s, that platter contained a 12-minute selection from this concert. Restored to its nearly 78½-minute length, the full-length CD offers a peek at eight, first generation Euroimprovisers during their transition from Free Jazzers to Free Musicians.
While there are many moments of unbridled excitement and tongue-in-cheek humor here, the rational for releasing the truncated single is obvious as well. Sounding most of the time like participants in a high-class House Rent party, there are points at which it seems that the musicians really do play whatever comes into their heads. Lacking focus and clarity, you have to hear the disc as a particularized soundscape of its time -- 1979 -- and place -- Berlin. MORE