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Keune / Russel "Frequency of Use" - [CD 2003]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Frank Niehusmann "live" [CD 2003]

   

Paul Bijlsma at Phosphor Magazine:
Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       

Oberg, Uwe / Xu, Fengxia "Looking" - [CD 2002]

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
 

Paul Hubweber "Tromboneos" - [CD 2002]

Steven Loewy at All-Music Guide:
Massimo Ricci at Touching Extremes:

 
 

Hübsch, Carl Ludwig "119 Arten zu beginnen" - [CD 2002]

Steven Loewy at All-Music Guide:

 
 

Zoepf / Schliemann / Charig / Schneider "QUATUOHR - [KJU:]" - [CD 2002]

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
 

Claus van Bebber "Viny'l'isten" - [CD 2002]

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
 

Mitch Heinrich/Christopher Irmer "Frogsongs" - [CD 2002]

Ken Waxman at Jazz Weekly:
Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
 

Matthias Kaul "Fever" - [CD 2002]

Ken Waxman at Jazz Weekly:
Ingvar Loco Nordin at Sonoloco Record Reviews:
Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
 

Georg Wissel "The Arte of Navigation" - [CD 2001]

Klaus Hübner at Westzeit:
Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:
Ken Waxman at Jazz Weekly:

 
 

achtmal.1 "SoloSchichten" [CD 2001]

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:
Richard Cochrane at Musings:

 
 

Hainer Wörmann "Lower Rhine Sonata" [CD 2001]

Geert De Decker at Sztuka Fabryka:
CD
Musician: Hainer Wörmann
Title: "Lower Rhine Sonata"
Tracks:
01. Part 1 PA - 4'04"
02. Part 2 TREEPIECES - 5'02"
03. Part 3 TIC - 3'09"
04. Part 4 HO - 7'33"
05. EBOWCROW - 7'15"
06. BRUSHES - 3'25"
07. STYRO 2 - 5'48"
08. PIBROCH - 7'17"
09. YELLOW - 2'26"
10. CORCSTONE - 2'35"
11. ECHINACEA - 3'54"
The basic instrument of Hainer Wörmann on this CD is the guitar. As it is usual with the releases of NurNichtNur, the instrument is used as a medium for improvised music. Also in this case, Hainer plays several kinds of guitars and results are recorded without the use of any electronics to change the sound. He plays his guitars in an unconventional way using some tools as a brush, wooden sticks, styrofoam. This creates of course a variation in sounds going from short tunes as plucking the snare still rustle. A large variation in music and tunes is created with other words depending which tool is used and if it is a classic guitar or an electric version. Again a pure improvisation release from NurNichtNur with a large variation in the tracks sometimes difficult sometimes easy. The united sound of guitar. The release is located in a beautiful tin box with a little printed leaflet inside.

 
 

Hainer Wörmann "Lower Rhine Sonata" [CD 2001]

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:
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Hans Tammen "Endangered guitar processing" [CD 2001]

Klaus Hübner at Westzeit:
Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
 

Wolfgang Schliemann "Tre Pezzi per Percussione" [CD 2000]

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
 

Michael Vorfeld "Von Wellen und anderen Teilchen" [CD 2000]

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
 

Michael Vorfeld "Von Wellen und anderen Teilchen" [CD 2000]

Geert De Decker at Sztuka Fabryka:
Single-CD
Musician: Michael Vorfeld
Title: "von Wellen und anderen Teilchen"
Tracks:
01. Synchronvolumina - 10'48"
02. Wellenschub - 6'25"
03. leichte Dehnung - 4'23"
In the past we have reviewed more work of Michael Vorfeld, so it is nice to have another piece of sound-art in front of us. This time music for percussion and stringed instruments.
The first tack starts with a constant sharp string sound while this proceed you hear from time to time the more softer sound of brass bowls with their typical resonance. As a start this track highlights the contrast in sound between both instruments. In track no. 2, several bowls are be played constantly which creates very different tunes. The tunes tumbles between each other and seems to come from everywhere around you, this combined with the resonance a strange piece of music is created. Track no. 3 highlights the resonance that both strings and bowls are able to create. Both instruments are played softly creating high and low resonance.
General conclusion: For those who loves sounds and contemporary classical music. Music of NurNichtNur have always a high quality level.
Where available: NurNichtNur

 
 

Klapper/Ulher/Morgenstern "Momentaufnahmen" [CD 2000]

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:
Ken Waxman at Jazz Weekly:

 
 

Klapper/Ulher/Morgenstern "Momentaufnahmen" [CD 2000]

Geert De Decker at Sztuka Fabryka:
CD
Musician: Klapper Ulher Morgenstern
Title: "Momentaufnahmen"
Tracks:
01. MA 01 - 4'33"
02. MA 02 - 2'29"
03. MA 03 - 9'07"
04. MA 04 - 3'12"
05. MA 05 - 6'39"
06. MA 06 - 3'30"
07. MA 07 - 5'55"
08. MA 08 - 6'48"
09. MA 09 - 5'41"
10. MA 10 - 4'30"
11. MA 11 - 3'12"
12. MA 12 - 3'52"
Three musicians, both with their own instrument create improvisation music.
Martin Klapper: toys & electronics
Birgit Ulher: trumpet
Jürgen Morgenstern: double-bass, voice
The music is improvisation music in such way that they do not use the instruments in its usual way to work out a song. They create sounds with and from the instruments which they combine in a composition. There is speed in the compositions, this because they create from the instruments constantly short sounds on several ways, shortly after each other. The compositions on all the tracks are played on the same way. It is pure improvisation music and on the way how it is played it have a certain jazzy tune.
General conclusion: pure improvisation music, only a pity for the lack of variation.
Where to get: NurNichtNur

 
 

Bisset/Davies/Heesch "Brush + Strings" [CD 2000]

Review

 
       
 

Birgit Ulher, Ulrich Phillipp & Roger Turner "Umlaut" [CD 2000]

 
   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Birgit Ulher, Ulrich Phillipp & Roger Turner "Umlaut" [CD 2000]

   

Geert De Decker at Sztuka Fabryka:
This CD brings you improvisation music Pur Sang, far more then is common in modern jazz. Birgit Ulher (trumpet), Ulrich Phillipp (double-bass) and Roger Turner (drumset & percussion) brings you music that is completely build on playing with the sounds that their instruments can create and this in relationship with the other instruments. They do not play notes, no they play with the typical color textures their instruments can create. The power of the compositions on this CD is not the constant flood of sounds but the briljant use of silence between the color textures of the instruments.
This CD brings you 16 compositions of the most wonderfull improvisation music in about 60 minutes. We recommend this CD to all who is interested in contemporary music and jazz-improvisation. This CD is from a serie of improvisers, more information about this serie and this CD can be found at http://www.nurnichtnur.de/.

Ken Waxman at Jazz Weekly:

 
       
 

Erhard Hirt "25.5.1996" [Mini-CD 2000]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Erhard Hirt "25.5.1996" [Mini-CD 2000]

   

Geert De Decker at Sztuka Fabryka:
The soundart recorded on this single-CD is a performance at the LMC Festival in London on the 25th of May 1996. Erhard Hirt works with guitars and electronics on a non-conventional way and is since the seventies promoter of improvisation and experimental music.
This single-CD contains 4 tracks, each with a different soundscape and color of music. The first track is called "Drone" and this describes the color of the music, it is a dark atmosphere created with a wave-background and howling strings. Track 2 "Percussion" sounds as a jam on a bass-guitar and classical guitar, which creates a composition that explores the variety of tunes instruments can make. Track 3 "Staff" brings you in an other atmosphere again, low dark sounds where soon random high tunes starts to play the main role. The last track "Kermesse" sounds completely as a "Kermesse" a big jam of random sounds that goes into your direction.
Erhard Hirt shows us on this CD what the possibilities are with creating several atmospheres in music with a few instruments that are mostly used in a conventional way.

Ken Waxman at Jazz Weekly:

 
       
 

Georg Jappe "1000 Zungen" [CD 2000]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:
Review

 
       
 

Martin Theurer "Trinidad" [CD 1999]

   

Ken Waxman at Jazz Weekly:

 
       
 

Frank Niehusmann "Fragrance" [CD 1999]

   

Review

 
       
 

Jasnoch/Lemke "The Long & the Short of it" [CD 1999]

   

Ken Waxman at Jazz Weekly:

 
       
 

Joachim Zoepf [CD 1999]

   

Richard Cochrane at Musings:

 
       
 

Various Artists "Rubbed + Blown" [CD 1999]

    Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:
 
       
 

Various Artists "Bowed + Popped" [CD 1999]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Various Artists "Bowed + Popped" [CD – 1999]
Various Artists "Rubbed + Blown" [CD – 1999]

   

Geert De Decker at Sztuka Fabryka:
Both CD's comes in a beautiful metal box with well printed information on the covers. On "Rubbed + Blown" there are 9 pieces of music, while "Bowed + Popped" contains 12 tracks. Inside both boxes you find graphical explanation about the tracks of the 5 participating artists on this experimental music. We are going to introduce you the participating artists one by one.
"Bowed + Popped"
Michael Vorfeld contributes with one track that last at least 10 minutes. Again it is the combination of several stroke and beat instruments that makes the music. The music goes towards ambient. The same with 7 tracks of Stephan Froleyks, mostly of the instruments are from wood and that creates rhythmical music with a japanese touch. Each track he uses one specific material as an instrument such as wood, a knive, knives and even two hands and a crowd, combined from time to time with samples. Very fresh and fine music, one of the highlights on this CD.
Hans Tammen contributes 4 tracks called styrofoam 1 - 4. At these tracks only one material has been used as instrument and that is styrofoam ofcourse. The idea to use styrofoam as an single instrument is if I know new, only the result is rather disappointed, no rhythm, no soft ambient music. Not of this all only continuesly sounds of pieces styrofoam that gets rubbed at each other in several ways. When you listen carefully after a while the sound transforms as a combination of several sounds, but when there are to long high tones you need to have strong nerves.
"Rubbed + Blown"

First you hear music from Claus Van Bebber and RoN Schmidt, who celebrates their 25th year of friendship with 6 tracks. It must be a very good friendship, as it are one of the best pieces of music on both CD's. In these tracks both artists sounds the same as the best industrial music that has been made in the mid eighties. Besides classical instruments and found objects, they use also synthesizers and electric guitar. The result is monotone aranged distortian combined with more common sounds, that creates a hell of an atmosphere. With this music they leave the paths of rational music, but enters the fields of music that can hits somebody's feelings. The tracks from Paul Hubweber acts about the theme blown. So are there two tracks with a composition for 8 till 5 trombones. They do not play tunes, it is just the creation of sounds, the combination of all these sounds creates a kind of extreme form of free- or improvisation-jazz. While at a second track the only instrument is the human voice that blows constantly but by use of water and the tension of the upperlip various variety of sounds are created.

"Rubbed + Blown" (Bebber/Schmidt, Hubweber); CD - 57 min., in metal box; 1999;
NURNICHTNUR 199 04 21
"Bowed + Popped" (Froleyks, Tammen, Vorfeld); CD - 69 min., in metal box; 1999;
NURNICHTNUR 199 02 23

Richard Cochrane at Musings:
Review

 
       
 

Various Artists "First Four" [CD 1999]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Küntzel, Tilman "Lights catalogue" [CD 1999]

   

Review

 
       
 

Martin Theurer "U Boot Party" [CD 1998]

   

Ken Waxman at Jazz Weekly:

 
       
 

Theurer/Schlotte/Zoepf "2+2=3, 1. Konzert" [CD 1998]

   

Ken Waxman at Jazz Weekly:

 
       
 

Tammen, Hans "Endangered Guitar" [CD 1998]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:
Ken Waxman at Jazz Weekly:

 
       
 

Tammen, Hans "Endangered guitar" [CD 1998]

   

Richard Cochrane at Musings:

Geert De Decker at Sztuka Fabryka:
'A man has an electric guitar on his lap, and with an electric fan, which usually cools off hot faces, coaxes fascinating growling sounds from it. All this he does with a satisfied grin.' This little review at the Hessisch-Niedersächsische Allgemeine (June 9th, 1997) is used as the main description of Hans Tammen works on this CD. Now since the days of industrial music where musicians as Throbbing Gristle and Boyd Rice placed electric fans on their electric guitar we are not keen on musicians who does the same today. As the industrialists it does, noboddy else can do it better, we thought. But we may say that Hans is doing it even better. The industrialists did it to make noise, Hans to produce sounds and that is sommething completely different, even when he is able to produce in some sounds that can be used in industrial music. But in other parts of his music the sounds are fragile and becomes little pieces of avantgarde music.
Besides the litlle electric fan he uses much more different materials such as small stones, cymbals, bowed tin plates, and much more to produce several kind of sounds. With from time to time the use of special electronic effects. the result is a CD full of intimate sounds where the quality is stressed in the variety of the sounds that goes from industrial tunes towards rythmical, ambient and even sacral sounds. Available at NURNICHTNUR, in a metal box and 47 minutes of music, cataloguecode is 198 07 15.

 
       
 

Erhard Hirt "Acoustics" [CD 1998]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:
Ken Waxman at Jazz Weekly:

 
       
 

S. Sistermanns, Johannes "Just and Thongs - Auf Blau zugehen" [CD 1998]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Küntzel, Tilman "Lights and Sounds CD" [CD 1998]

   

Review

 
       
 

Küntzel, Tilman "Sonic Windsocks" [CD 1998]

   

Review

 
       
 

Küntzel, Tilman "Weavers Looms" [CD 1998]

   

Review

 
       
 

Various Artists "Vox" [CD 1997]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Various Artists "VOX" [ CD 1997]

   

Geert De Decker at Sztuka Fabryka:
10 Composers, musicians and sound-artists produce each an acoustic work made with an instrument called 'Voice'. The artists: Anna Homler, Michael Vorfeld, Mike Keppler, Paul Hubweber, Ron Schmidt, Tröster, Stephan Froleyks, Claus Van Bebber, Helmut Lemke and Berserker.
All these artists use their voice or voices to produce music. We have got for example Claus Van Bebber, who use LP-records with voices. He plays the records on several speeds or repeats each track over and over with specail effects and creates this way a very strange sphere. Others just sing or creates sounds with their voice and try to find the strangest sound they can produce. There are also artists who creates a song in pure spoken-word style or creates ambient songs. There are so many different styles and songs at this CD and all with just one single instrument, the voice. This is just another briljant concept-CD from NURNICHTNUR.

 
       
 

Carl Ludwig Hübsch "Tuba - Bericht" [CD 1997]

   

Review

 
       
 

Georg Jappe "Gänsefüßchen" [CD 1997]

   

Review

 
       
 

Barbara Hahn "Mit Pfeil und Bogen" [Maxi-CD 1996]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Claus van Bebber "1977 - 1995" [CD 1996]

   

Geert De Decker at Sztuka Fabryka:
CD-review at the Sztuka Fabryka Gallery issue N° 9, that illustrates his music.
This CD is available at the catalogue of a retrospective in Villingen-Schwenningen in the year 1996. Klaus Van Bebber can be described as a person with not a certain style, he is more a concept-artist who works out his ideas. A lot of his works is based upon soundobjects and to work with nature, these are the main elements of his works that returns almost in all his performances, objects and music-pieces.
On the CD you find 26 pieces of music which give you the idea about the years 1977 and 1995 of his musical work. Started with the jazzy Van Bebber-Schmidt-Thelosen-kombination in 1977 and the prepared records-concert of 1995. Klaus Van Bebber his work is different from all other contemporary artists. As a person from an earlier generation, I still find in his earlier work influences which makes for me the conceptual art of the sixties so typical. This is not bad, it is just good I think, it is something I have missed those years of honoust art. I recommend this booklet and CD for all who are interested in conceptual art. If you still can find it.
Published by Völcker-druck, Goch and the authors are: Wendelin Renn & Jörg Becker. The title is: CLAUS VAN BEBBER, werkübersicht 1955-1995, dokumentation der ausstellung

 
       
 

Lesley Olson "Zwischen den Zeilen" [Maxi-CD 1996]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Stephan Froleyks "Über ihnen flogen Spatzen" [CD 1996]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Georg Jappe "Von Früh bis Spät" [CD 1996]

   

Review

 
       
 

Vorfeld, Michael "Sieben Freunde" [CD 1995]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Claus van Bebber "Herz mit" [Maxi-CD 1995]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Claus van Bebber "Herz mit" [Maxi-CD 1995]

    Geert De Decker at Sztuka Fabryka:
Hörstuck mit 5 Schallplattenspielern und 16 Schallplatten".
Is a hearplay with 6 recordplayers and 16 longplayrecords, Claus uses for this case records that he did not recorded himself. But he uses records from the shop, f.e. a record with Bach music and prepares them before he plays them. One by one or all together in a big jam of music. These schallplattenconcerts are much more chaotic and noisy then John Cage with his prepred pianos. He performed his Schallplattenconcert at several places and are also part of his expositions.
 
       
 

Lemke, Helmut "Tubuläre Tänze" [Mini-CD 1993]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Stephan Froleyks "So fuhren sie im Boot, tauschten Gedanken aus, und die Ruder in ihren Händen blitzten wie Schüsse" [Maxi-CD 1994]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Gertie Bauer und die Jungs "Die Ersten Zehn Jahre" [Maxi-CD 1993]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Claus van Bebber "Schallplattenkonzert" [Mini-CD 1993]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Küntzel, Tilman "Wir fangen das Mögliche" [CD 1992]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide:

 
       
 

Stephan Froleyks "Musik für 10 Pfeifen / Saitenwanne" [Mini-CD 1991]

   

Francois Couture at All-Music Guide: