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Hubweber, Paul & Philip Zoubek

Dansaert Variations: Archiduc Concert

Hubweber, Paul & Philip Zoubek: Dansaert Variations: Archiduc Concert (Emanem)

Digital concert recording made in Brussels at the L'Archiduc from trombonist Paul Hubweber and prepared pianist Philip Zoubek, two generations of players with tremendous empathy and dialog.
 

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Paul Hubweber-trombone

Philip Zoubek-prepared piano


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UPC: 5030243501120

Label: Emanem
Catalog ID: 5011
Squidco Product Code: 13824

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2010
Country: Great Britain
Packaging: Cardstock 3 page foldover
Recorded in concert in Brussels on November 11th, 2007 by Michael Huon.

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Excerpts from sleeve notes:

"Once, during a concert intermission, I looked at a CD awaiting its buyer on the CD stall. It seemed anonymous and unimportant, adorned by a bright red monochrome abstract painting looking cheap on the cover. The title NOBODY'S MATTER BUT OUR OWN reminded me that there are still some unknowns in the process of free improvisation, and no one knows better than the performer himself, who is all the while a strong and creative personality. One of the musicians involved was just standing by my side and I immediately felt that the man became 'inside' - very sincerely proud of this special work - when I opened the tray. So, as improvised music is a matter of sincerity, I bought it immediately, and I did well. I think it is now sold-out after having been poorly distributed. NOBODY'S MATTER BUT OUR OWN is one of the most underrated recordings of European improvised music, issued by a low profile German label, NurNichtNur.

I was stunned by the depth of the overall sound of the duo music of veteran trombonist Paul Hubweber and young pianist Philip Zoubek and the empathy created by them. The subtle way that the innards of the prepared grand piano were moved with acute rhythmic sense and the spontaneous mapping of an architecture is rare to find even among the most accomplished improv practitioners. It sounded at first as good as an ideal and hypothetical recording that the late Paul Rutherford and Fred Van Hove should have made or would have issued as a duo. I had once witnessed a nice tandem of Fred and the late great Albert Mangelsdorff, and subsequently Fred and Paul's duets, in Brussels and Ghent in 1977 and 1986 respectively. Derek Bailey once described Rutherford's solo music (the famous GENTLE HARM LP now on Emanem 4019) as 'the genuine article', and that 'it's a combination of the easy, the difficult and the impossible'. And when I heard Hubweber's focus on single sounds, Derek's words immediately sprung to mind.

The trombone became the wind instrument par excellence of the European improvised 'answer' to free jazz in some of its more original statements. The late Albert Mangelsdorff and Paul Rutherford, the Bauer brothers, Connie and Hannes, Radu Malfatti are familiar names, but you should not forget such pioneers as Giancarlo Schiaffini, who performed with Nuova Consonanza, Willem Van Manen, a stalwart of the Willem Breuker Collektief, Nick Evans and Malcolm Griffiths who, with Malfatti, blew in Chris McGregor's groups. This blooming was paralleled by the uprising keyboard generation of Van Hove, Schweizer, Schlippenbach, Dauner, Mengelberg, Riley, Tippett, etc....

Born in 1954, Paul Hubweber began to freely improvise very early and to organise improvised gigs while still in his teens. After having played guitar, drums and double bass, he went to a music shop in order to try two 'serious' instruments: a bass clarinet and a trombone. The brass clicked immediately with his mind and body and he fell in love with the 'tailgate' instrument forever. Living and working in Moers, Paul Hubweber was actually involved in the Moers festival's organisation - he is even credited for his technical work on the sound of an Anthony Braxton album issued by Ring Records. At that time, he was still practicing the trombone everyday to hone his chops.

During the seventies and eighties, Paul Rutherford, Gunther Christmann and Radu Malfatti specifically developed a whole new music in solo performances and group improvisations of the so-called 'non-idiomatic' species. It is noteworthy that all three were intensely involved with percussionist Paul Lovens. Since 2001, Paul Hubweber and the percussionist have made a fascinating trio with bass player John Edwards, PaPaJo (Emanem 4075). If this moniker sounds a bit fatherly, it is no doubt that Paul's music is deeply informed by the three older trombonists while having developed a very personal voice and also investigated the jazz tradition. For practicing, he plays many Mangelsdorff tunes, Charlie Parker standards and his own transcriptions of the Cello Suites of Johann-Sebastian Bach. But as you can hear, his solo performances included in his self-produced LÜRIX + PARANOISE and TROMBONEOS (both on NNN) have the same feeling of freshness, innocence, invention and immediacy that permeates Paul Rutherford's seventies recordings, and remembrances of Radu Malfatti's air implosions with Stephan Wittwer (UND? on FMP) and NEWS FROM THE SHED (Emanem 4121).

Paul Hubweber plays as greatly as his elder colleagues, and his music is full of real meaning using all the possibilities deep in the logic of the instrument. In his mid-fifties, Paul Hubweber has always been a free-improvisation activist, deeply bound up with the values and sounds carried down the years by this way of making music. Doing many jobs to survive, he never stopped playing and performing throughout his decades in the relative underground of the Rhenish improvising community, until he was fortunately noticed in the company of Paul Lovens and the late Peter Kowald some ten years ago. Among the lifelong partners who shared his views and beliefs, you find the great double bassists Ulrich Philipp and Georg Wolf, the radical pianist Martin Theurer, percussionists Michael Vorfeld and Wolfgang Schliemann, guitarists Hainer Wörmann and Erhard Hirt, saxophonists Georg Wissell, Dirk Marwedel, electronician Ulli Böttcher and the ever very supportive Paul Lytton.

Quite a newcomer in the improvising scene, Austrian born pianist Philip Zoubek shows a very strong personality and a fascinating control of the piano, surely the instrument most charged with the weight of European tradition and western musical culture. He is currently living in Köln, and among his music partners one can find bassist Achim Tang, trombonist Mathias Muche, Thomas Lehn, Frank Gratkowski and compatriot Franz Hauzinger. It would be premature to try to point out the influences and starting points of Zoubek pianistic approach. He is still in the early stages of his musical development and this young man, born in 1978, is as intelligent as his sensitivity is deep, so that it would be premature to create a pigeon-hole to hold his work.

Although his partner in the duo is carrying the story and problems of the improvised trombone, it is very difficult and fruitless to locate Philip on the map of the piano in free-improvisation. Please forget Van Hove, Schweizer or Tippett! For example, he certainly has a completely different view and sensitivity than those of Sophie Agnel (CAPSIZING MOMENTS Emanem 5004) or John Tilbury, whose discography is quite extensive.

To my taste, this duo of Paul Hubweber and Philip Zoubek is as great as anything that the likes of Parker, Bailey, Rutherford, Christmann, Van Hove, Lovens and Lytton ever did, performing at their best. May I remind everyone when Parker, Lovens, Lytton, Christmann and many others revolutionised our ideas and perceptions of musical improvisation, they were even younger than Philip Zoubek is now (32)? So, don't wait until his hair turns grey (which, I think, also applies to some other young players)."-Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg


Artist Biographies

"Philip Zoubek (* 1978 in Tulln an der Donau ) is an Austrian pianist of the New Improvisation Music. A striking feature is his highly energetic play, the limits of the pianos, which also include preparation techniques and actions inside the instrument.

Zoubek studied piano at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna from 1996 onwards. He founded the Ubik quartet and took lessons with Uli Scherer before he enrolled at the Musikhochschule Vienna. In 2002 he moved to Cologne, where he studied with Hans Lüdemann, Frank Gratkowski and Marc Ducret. He founded the multimedia project Cauldron, with whom he won the composition competition of the bunker Ulmenwall Bielefeld and the cultural promotion award of the city of Herford; a DVD Q-Spektrum was created in 2003. With the group Snaut with Richard Koch (tp), Eric Schaefer (dr) and Christian Rainer (voice), he toured through Germany and Switzerland and became a prizewinner of the avant-garde competition for Young culture at the Düsseldorfer Altstadtherbst. Since 2004 he belongs to Achim Tang's Trio Torn, which performed successfully in 2011 in a quartet version at the Moers Festival. He was a member of the James Choice Orchestra ( Live at Moers, 2005), Ensemble Creativ, Org, Camera Obscura and the trio Muche / Zoubek / Tang. As a composer Philip Zoubek appeared with his own formation Philz. He also worked with Paul Lytton, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Ernst Glerum, Herb Robertson, Wilbert de Joode and Christian Thomé.

In 2008 he received the Horst and Gretl Will scholarship for Jazz / Improvised Music of the City of Cologne. Also in 2008 he founded the Trio Z3 with Benjamin Weidekamp and Christian Weber. The formation Z3 was born out of the idea of ​​the music of the Jimmy Giuffre -Trios of the 1960s."

-Wikipedia translated by Google (https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Zoubek&prev=search)
3/13/2024

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Track Listing:



1. Mean Machine 25:42

2. Lab 4 3:20

3. Plexo 26:36

4. Plafond 4:26

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Improvised Music
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Instruments with Preparations

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