LISTENING ROOM

14 March 2003

Neptune Roon, Bluecoat, Liverpool

Günter CHRISTMANN (b. Poland, April 1942 – thus approaching 62nd birthday) Inspired by Kid Ory and Gorge Lewis (clarinetist of New Orleans NOT the trombonist of Chicago); started on banjo, then moved to trombone; new influences Coltrane and Ornette Coleman.  Played w. Rüdiger Carl (69-72), in the late Peter Kowald’s quintet (72-74), in duo w. Detlef Schoenenberg (72-81); sometimes w. dance groups, electronic musicians.) Member fom 1973 og Globe Unity Orchestra. Uaccompanied soloist from 75. Duo w. cellist Tristan Honsinger (78-81). From 79 he worked with various VARIO (loosely organised Free Jazz group) players incl., Altena, Lovens, Nicols, actors, mimes. Déjà vu (himself functioning w. mixed media) from 1982. Duo w. bassist Torsten Müller from 84. [Grove Jazz, 1988] Since 88, he has continued to perform diversely as this programme will demonstrate.***       

 

PLAYLIST

 

01. King Ubu Orchestru w. Wolfgang Fuchs (reeds), Peter Van Bergen (reeds), Luc Houtkamp (reeds), Radu Malfatti (tb), Melvyn Poore (tuba), Phil Wachsmann (vn, el.), Torsten Muller (b), Paul Lytton (d, el.), Georg Katzer (computer + el.), June 1992, Berlin

FMP CD 49                                                            BINAURALITY                                   

Tracks    05                Translation #5 (Raptus)                      01:52      

                06                Translation #6                                      04:52

 

02. Solo cello, November 1992: Paris                                                                                                      

Moers Music CD02094                                                SOMETIMES CROSSWISE

Track      09                Huit a dix-Sept                                  05:20

 

03. VARIO 34 w. AF (b), Mats Gustafsson (saxes), Thomas Lehn (electronics; a member of the trio KONK PACK), Paul Lovens (pc), Christian Munthe (g), October 1993, Hanover

BlueTower (Swed) CD06/ Explico 05                 VARIO 34

Track      02                then                                                        04:05

 

04. Duo w. Elke Schipper/ soundpoetry, c.1994

GSV/ Explico CD004                                    PAROLE               

Track      02                Pneumanym                                        05:38

 

05. Duo w. Alexander Frangenheim (AF)/ doublebass, January 1997, Hanover

Cod CD 001/ Explico CD 07                        ALLA PRIMA

Track      09                a.p. 9                                                       07:19

 

06. Duo w. Mats Gustafsson/ saxes, August 1997, Hanover

OkkaDisk CD 10002 [582 of 750]                                 one to (two)……………

Tracks    03                Three to …..                                          01:07

                07                Seven to …..                                          01:38

                09                Nine to …..                                          01:51

                17                Seventeen to …..                                                01:16

 

07. VARIO 34-2 w. pers as VARIO 34, July 1998, Hanover

Cod CD 004                                                           “*water writes always in *plural”

Tracks    08                water8                                                    06:59

                09                water9                                                    02:57

 

08. Duo w. Thomas Lehn/ electronics, October 1998, Hanover

Explico CD 10                                                        TEMPS DUREE

Tracks    11                duree 11                                                 01:47

03                duree 3                                                   01:50

(Tracks 12 + 13 were heard in the Listening Room of 17 November, 2000)

 

09. Trio w. Serge Baghdassarians/ g, el.; Boris Baltschun/ sampler, el., July 2001, Hanover

Cod CD 007/ Explico CD11                         MAL D’ARCHIVE

Track      01                archive 1                                                08:04

 

10. Duo w. Phil Minton/ voice, October 2001, Germany

CodCD008/ Explico CD 12                        “(for) friends and neighbo(u)rs”

Track      04                for G.                                                      08:44                                       [c.63’]

 

*** A shuffle through my VINYL material reveals the following releases upon which Gunter Chrismann performs:

 

1. FMP 0070                Peter Kowald Quintet Rec: Berlin 720119 + Paul Rutherford, Van De Locht, Paul Lovens

 

2. FMP 0160 Globe Unity Orchestra (GUO) Rec: live in Wuppertal 730325 + Evan Parker, Peter Bennink, Gerd Dudek, Michel Pilz,

Peter Brotzmann, Manfred Schoof, Kenny Wheeler, Rutherford, Kowald, Alex Schlippenbach, J.B. [Buschi] Niebergall, Lovens

 

3. Po Torch PTR/ JWD 2 GUO Jahrmarkt/ Local Fair Rec: Baden-Baden (studio) 751127 and live in Wuppertal 760605 + Wheeler,

Enrico Rava, Rutherford, Albert Mangelsdorff, Parker, Btotzmann, Anthony Braxton, Dudek, Rudiger Carl, Pilz, Schlippenbach, Kowald, Niebergall, Lovens and many others

 

4. FMP 0380 GUO & Guests Rec: Baden-Baden 771125-27 + Rava, Schoof, Wheeler, Braxton, Brotzmann, Carl, Dudek, Parker, Pilz,

Mangelsdorff, Rutherford, Schlippenbach, Kowald, Niebergall, Lovens

 

5. [no number] Hohe Ufer Konzerte Rec: Hanover between 7604 and 7711 + Detlef Schonenberg [other tracks do not feature GC]

 

6. FMP 0660 Horns Rec: Berlin 780324 + Schoof, Dudek, Mangelsdorff, Wheeler, Rutherford

 

7. Moers Music 01040 Earmeals Rec: Hanover & Wolfsburg 780503&07 + Tristan Honsinger

 

8. Po Torch PTR/ JWD 6 idylle und katastophen Rec: Hamburg 791126 + Sven-Ake Johansson, Schlippenbach, Maarten Altena,

Derek Bailey, Wolfgang Fuchs, Lovens, Candace Natvig

 

9. Po Torch PTR/ JWD 7 weavers Rec: Langenhagen/ Hanover 7912, 8006 + Lovens, Altena

 

10. Moers Music 01084 VARIO II Rec: 8006 Hanover + Altena, Lovens, Maggie Nichols [sic], John Russell

 

11. Japo 60039 GUO Intergalactic Blow Rec: Paris 820604 + Toshinori Kondo, Wheeler, George Lewis, Mangelsdorff, Bob Stewart,

Dudek, Parker, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Schlippenbach, Alan Silva, Lovens

 

12. Moers Music 02048 VARIO20, 21, 19/12, 6 Rec: var (Hanover, Langenhagen, Bremen, Moers) 830504, 830522, 850511, 850629,

851123 + Gerd Glasner, Shelley Hirsch, Gyde Knebusch, Torsten Muller, Jon Rose, Jo Sachse, Ladonna Smith, Davey Williams, Fuchs, Roger Turner, Lovens, Phil Minton, Russell, Altena