"Track one is the oldest recording of Just Music (JuMu) done at the local radio station, Hessischer Rundfunk. Here you can listen to JuMu still using motifs that already had been cut short compared with other themes in regular jazz. Thomas Cremer had put a hose into his snare and inflated the snare with his mouth to tune it during his performance. Also, for a short time we had been working with graphic notations.

Uncommon instrument treating was usual for JuMu. Krämer often played his guitar with a screwdriver. Stock used a stick to percuss the strings of his bass and had invented a "Steinberg" bass himself years before anybody heard about Steinberg, Peter's vision was to sound like the bass drone of a propeller machine. Teplitz played his violin upright on his knees, Stöwsand included folkloristic flutes, I included a pocket trumpet and an upright down bicycle etc.

Dr.Ulrich Olshausen at the Hessischer Rundfunk had done the duo recordings between Cremer & me and Herrmann and me in a special recording session. He also had invited JuMu members including Nicole Van den Plas two times for a studio meeting recording at the Hessischer Rundfunk in 1971 and a year before - personnel please see in the "19701971" cover infos.

Olshausen was the good spirit in Frankfurt. He also attended several of our concerts at the Centrum Freier Cunst (CFC). In 1967 he even wrote our very first press media review in the famous Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. One day he brought to the CFC the clarinetist Tony Scott who had finished his one-day recording-job at the Hessischer Rundfunk and then took part in a session with us at the CFC. Olshausen together with concert manager Fritz Rau also invited JuMu for the Frankfurt Jazzfestival in 1970.

Several recordings such as "Belgium 1971" or others on the "19701971" disc represent the opening up of JuMu and mark the transition towards EMT.Unfortunately we did not find any recordings from 1971/2 when JuMu was performing at the Jazz nad Odra festival in Wroclaw or in Warsaw, both in Poland.

Maybe there is still some recording in the festival archive. Those were the last concerts of JuMu."-Harth

"Alfred Harth was born in 1949 in Kronberg im Taunus (near Frankfurt), Germany, and artistically initiated by visiting a dada exhibition in 1958 in Frankfurt/Main.

With his essay "On Synaesthetics" in 1967 he opened his creative horizons to a large variety of artistic fields. He included classical string players in his free improvisation group Just Music in 1967 and opened the same year the platform centrum freier cunst in Frankfurt-a meeting point for live free music, art exhibitions, experimental poetry, action, and happening events."-Wikipedia