zeitkratzer – Alvin Lucier

Format: 180gr LP

Release date: september 16th 2022

https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/alvin-lucier

By zkr director REINHOLD FRIEDL’s personal request now available on vinyl for the first time: zeitkratzer’s critically acclaimed interpretations of compositions by ALVIN LUCIER.

ALVIN LUCIER (1931 – 2021) was one of the most influential American minimalists. Some call him „sound physician“ as his compositions are often based on acoustic research settings. His pieces tend to turn inside-out the properties of space and instruments: poems based on acoustic settings!
zeitkratzer worked with the composer in Dijon, France in 2008, and presented his music in various places. These recordings have been realized at Philharmonie Luxembourg that turned out to be the ideal space for this music.
On this album you can hear how LUCIER enables zeitkratzer to create sounds a lot of people have never heard before. Ringing overtones, a singing piano, a thrilling concert triangle, pencils on little objects, and how irritating a violoncello, a viola and a piano can sound together creating shifting sonic interferences. Sound phenomenology, evoking a sensual
listening experience.

Tracklist:
A1 Fideliotrio (1987) 12:10
A2 Violynn (2001) 9:50
B1 Music For Piano With Magnetic Strings (1995) 13:37
B2 Opera With Objects (1997) 10:59
Silver Streetcar For The Orchestra* (1988) 10:03
digital only, included in the download

zeitkratzer:

Burkhard Schlothauer: violin (A2), viola (A1), objects (B2)
Anton Lukoszevieze: violoncello (A1), objects (B2)
Ulrich Philipp: objects (B2)
Reinhold Friedl: piano (A1, B1), objects (B2)
Maurice de Martin: triangle (*), objects (B2)
Frank Gratkowski: objects (B2)
Hayden Chisholm: objects (B2)
Matt Davis: objects (B2)
Hilary Jeffery: objects (B2)
Ralf Meinz: sound

credits:
recorded live at Philharmonie Luxembourg, October 3, 2009 (A1, B1, B2, *)
and at GreenHouseStudios Schwielowsee, Germany, June 2010 (A2).
mixed and mastered by Ralf Meinz and Reinhold Friedl
produced by Reinhold Friedl
vinyl cut by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin

KONSTRUKT & PETER BRÖTZMANN – Dolunay

Format: 2x 180gr LP / download

Release date: august 26th 2022

https://karlrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dolunay

The ongoing series / tradition of a KONSTRUKT release in august this time returns to the early beginning: the overdue double vinyl reissue of the Turkish free-formers’ studio meeting with the German Free Jazz titan PETER BRÖTZMANN from 2008. Remastered for vinyl by KASSIAN TROYER at D&M, Berlin.

As written in several info sheets before, the Istanbul-based collective led by multi-instrumentalist UMUT ÇAĞLAR (also member of KARKHANA) and reeds player KORHAN FUTACI has since its formation in 2008 created an impressive catalogue including collaborations / performances with significant musicians like KEIJI HAINO, JOE MCPHEE, WILLIAM PARKER, AKIRA SAKATA, MARSHALL ALLEN, EVAN PARKER, THURSTON MOORE, MICHAEL ZERANG, ALFRED HARTH or ALEXANDER HAWKINS – and PETER BRÖTZMANN. The German Free Jazz titan was invited to the Deneyevi Studio in the Turkish capital in november 2008 where they recorded „Dolunay“, an album that was released three years later on a small label in Turkey only. Back then a quartet with drums AND percussion, guitar, reeds but NO bass player, KONSTRUKT and their iconic guest took off on a session full of fire and fury: shrieking reeds, thundering drums andandand … Free Jazz of the wildest, most energetic and kathartic (afterwards) kind! Just as they did a few months before (may 2011) in a former church as documented on „Eklisia Sunday“ and then once more in february 2014.

Remastered for vinyl, „Dolunay“ is now finally available as double LP and also via regular distribution – and shouldn’t be missing in any proper jazz collection!

tracklist:
A. Dolunay 10:26
Siyah 10:57
B. Kurtlar 10:16
C. Makinalı 13:18
D. Tepe 3:27
Nokta 9:18

musicians:
Korhan Argüden drums
Özün Usta percussion
Umut Çağlar guitar
Korhan Futacı tenor & baritone saxophone
Peter Brötzmann alto & tenor saxophone, clarinet

credits:
all music by Konstrukt & Peter Brötzmann
recorded by Ergin Özler & Taylan Özdemir at Deneyevi Studio, Istanbul on 13.11.2008
mixed by Tansu Kaner & Özün Usta
remastered & lacquer cut by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin
woodcut by Peter Brötzmann
layout & design by kaidoh