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MacDonald, Raymond / Gunter Baby Sommer: Delphinius & Lyra (Clean Feed)


 

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Raymond MacDonald-alto, soprano saxophones

Günter Baby Sommer-drums, percussion


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UPC: 5609063000863

Label: Clean Feed
Catalog ID: CF086
Squidco Product Code: 8572

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2007
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardstock foldover

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"Here it is, naked to the bone, free jazz in all its glory, loose, intense and furious, not in hanger but with "joie de vivre." A sax-drums duo like this, in which one of the performers is Gunter "Baby" Sommer, a hallowed name in European improvised music, makes you anticipate an essentialist approach to the communicative powers of improvisation. This is an encounter of generations, German percussionist and free-jazz pioneer Sommer meets a new presence on the international scene, Scottish saxophonist (and a psychologist, who uses sounds as a therapy for the mentally handicapped) MacDonald. We are all musical, the Glasgow-based MacDonald has lectured. From this universal musicality grow infra-music and hyper-music, music before and after music, nuclear and at the same time cosmic, on the path blazed by John Coltrane and Rashied Ali. The Sommer-MacDonald duo isn't as spiritual, but the celebration of life is the same. Back in the 60s and 70s Sommer was part of the gang that included Peter Brotzmann, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Peter Kowald, Evan Parker, Leo Smith, and Cecil Taylor when the world was challenged by a new music that rejected both traditional jazz and academic classical composition. He, with his unusual drum kit and literary collaborations, is a living monument. MacDonald is far from being mesmerized by the personal history of his partner: he himself gained the status of one of the most important reedmen in the United Kingdom, with the Burt-MacDonald Quintet, the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, and gigs with Keith Tippett, Maggie Nicols, Lol Coxhill, Harry Beckett, and other notables. You can't ignore the energy and fresh perspectives in this joint venture."-Clean Feed


Artist Biographies

"Raymond MacDonald co-leads The Burt/MacDonald Quartet and is a founder member and key player in The Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. He also performs with The Scottish Jazz Composers Ensemble and the saxophone quartet Rich in Knuckles. He has recently collaborated Lol Coxhill, Keith Tippett, Harry Beckett, Evan Parker, Gunter Baby Sommer, Fred Frith, Keith Rowe, George Lewis, Maggie Nicols, Satoko Fujii, Ken Hyder, Natsuki Tamura, Steve Beresford, Mike Zerang, and Fred Longberg-holm.

Other work includes composing and performing for film, television, theatre and collaborations with visual artists, including commissioned work for Martin Boyce, Simon Starling and Christine Borland. He collaborated with David Byrne on David McKenzie's film Young Adam.

In December 2005 he made a solo tour of Japan and in July 2006 performed with Josh Abrams and Miguel Carvalhais at The Glasgow International Jazz festival."

-Creative Sources (http://creativesourcesrec.com/creative_artists.html)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



1. GIO and the Dresden Free Team 7:45

2. I Would Like To Buy a Solo 6:28

3. I'm OK 7:31

4. Down At the Tonne 5:37

5. Socialistic Hip Shit 7:30

6. Peter's Red Shoes 9:47

7. 3am Dijereedon't 6:11

8. Parked on the Positive Side of Remembrance 8:13

Related Categories of Interest:

Clean Feed
Improvised Music
Jazz
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
August 2007
Duo Recordings
Saxophone & Drummer / Percussionist Duos

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