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Über dieses Produkt
Product Identifiers
ProducerJost Gebers; Peter Brotzmann
Record LabelFmp/Free Music Production (Germany)
UPC4014704000224
eBay Product ID (ePID)26050206968
Product Key Features
Release Year1989
FormatCD
GenreJazz
Run Time69 Mins 50 Seconds
ArtistPeter Brötzmann
Release TitleWie Das Leben So Spielt
Additional Product Features
DistributionNorthcountry Distributors
Country/Region of ManufactureUSA
Number of Discs1
EngineerJost Gebers
Additional informationPersonnel: Peter Brötzmann (tarogato, clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone); Werner Lüdi (alto saxophone). Liner Note Author: Peter Ruedi. Recording information: Live Concet-Townhall Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany (09/27/1989). Photographer: Jost Gebers. Werner Lüdi, though relatively little known at this disc was being released, had been a mainstay of the Swiss music scene since the early '60s. He and Brötzmann had played together as youths in 1962 but not again until this 1989 meeting. For much of this live recording, the two operate at extremely high intensity; pieces like the lovingly titled "You Poor Old Sausage" and "The Divine Monosyllable" are white-hot outpourings of sound likely to unsettle all but the most intrepid of listeners. Lüdi's alto has a liquid tone that contrasts nicely against Brötzmann's burr. Ruminations like "We Are in Schlemozzle," on the other hand, evoke the somewhat drunkenly melancholic reminiscences of old friends. Much of this album does in fact give the impression of eavesdropping on a private, if often ribald, conversation between a couple of warhorses who still retain a good deal of youthful fire. Wie Das Leben So Spielt is worth hearing not only as a solid example of Brötzmann playing in a horn duo situation, but also as a rare sample of the work of Werner Lüdi, who died in 2000, still very much under-recorded. ~ Brian Olewnick