Squidco: Lexer / Schiller: Luftwurzein

Luftwurzein

Part of the Alike As Trees Festival 2011, pianist plus Sebastian Lexer met Christoph Schiller on spinet at The Rag Factory in London to record these intense and unexpected improvisations from two key instruments by two key London players.

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Personnel:

Sebastian Lexer-piano+

Christoph Schiller-spinet

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UPC: 502049208428

Label: Matchless
Catalog ID: MRCD84
Squidco Product Code: 16797

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2012
Country: Great Britain
Packaging: Digipack, booklet
Recorded at As Alike As Trees Festival 2011, The Rag Factory, London by Giovanni La Rovere and Tom Mudd.

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Sebastian Lexer is a UK pianist, improviser, researcher, and software engineer. His recordings can be heard on Matchless Records, Another Timbre, Fataka, and Dromos Records. He attended Goldsmiths College, University of London between 1995-2000.

-Squidco 12/9/2025

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"Christoph Schiller was born in 1963 in Stuttgart. He studied fine arts at the Kunstakademie Stuttgart and HfBK Hamburg. He later studied piano with Daniel Cholette and music theory in Basel. He has been playing concerts of improvised music on piano since 1987. In recent years the piano has been abandoned in favour of the lighter spinet, for which he has developed specific playing techniques which are influenced by inside piano techniques. Besides keyboard instruments his work with the voice has become increasingly important. He lives in Weil am Rhein and Basel."

-Christoph Schiller Website (http://www.christophschiller.net/)
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Track Listing:

1. Luftwurzein 42:26

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