Recorded at Villa Waldberta in Germany in 2021, this three-CD set brings together Udo Schindler on bass clarinet, sopranino saxophone, and tuba, Nicola L. Hein on electric guitar and devices, and Nikolaus Neuser on trumpet, presenting two discs of intimate duo improvisations followed by a third of expansive trio interplay, exploring acoustic and electronic textures through spontaneous musical dialogue.
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Udo Schindler-bass clarinet, sopranino saxophone, tuba
Nicola L. Hein-electric guitar, devices
Nikolaus Neuser-trumpet
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UPC: 5609063408911
Label: Creative Sources
Catalog ID: cs891
Squidco Product Code: 37553
Format: 3 CDs
Condition: New
Released: 2026
Country: Portugal
Packaging: Cardboard Gatefold 6 Panels
CD 1 recorded live at Villa Waldberta Feldafing, in Starnberger See, Germany, on January 21st, and February 22th, 2021, by Udo Schindler.
CD 2 recorded live at Villa Waldberta Feldafing, in Starnberger See, Germany, on January 21st, and February 3rd and 17th, 2021, by Udo Schindler.
CD 3 recorded live at Villa Waldberta Feldafing, in Starnberger See, Germany, on February 17th, and 22th, 2021, by Udo Schindler.
German improvisers Udo Schindler, Nicola L. Hein, and Nikolaus Neuser present The Waldberta Tapes, an expansive three-CD collection documenting a series of intimate musical encounters recorded at Villa Waldberta in Feldafing, overlooking Lake Starnberg, during January and February 2021. Organized into three distinct programs, the recordings explore the relationships between acoustic instruments, amplified guitar, and electronic devices through freely improvised dialogues that emphasize timbral invention, spontaneous interaction, and unconventional approaches to instrumental sound.
The first disc, A Little Closer to the Edge, pairs Schindler's bass clarinet, sopranino saxophone, and tuba with Hein's electric guitar and devices across ten improvisations. The second, Chronicle of One's Own Breath, brings Schindler together with trumpeter Nikolaus Neuser for eleven pieces, investigating the expressive possibilities of their contrasting wind and brass instruments. The third disc, Vagabond Unrest, unites all three musicians in eleven collective improvisations, expanding the sonic relationships established in the duo sessions into a more complex ensemble conversation.
Schindler's extensive experience in experimental improvisation and his ability to move between contrasting instrumental registers provide a versatile foundation for these encounters. Hein approaches the electric guitar as a source of unconventional textures and electronically altered sounds, while Neuser contributes a distinctive trumpet vocabulary shaped by his work in European free jazz and contemporary improvisation. Together, the musicians investigate the intersections of breath, resonance, friction, and amplified sound, allowing their instrumental identities to overlap and transform through collective exploration.
Released by Creative Sources, The Waldberta Tapes offers an extensive document of these musicians' collaborative approaches, moving from the concentrated exchanges of two separate duos to the expanded possibilities of a trio. Across its three discs, the collection presents a sustained investigation of improvisation as a process of listening, responding, and discovering new relationships between instruments and their sonic environments.
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Artist Biographies
• Show Bio for Udo Schindler "Udo Schindler is a German improvisation musicians (bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, saxophone, flute, cornet, also accordion, guitar, percussion, analog synthesizer) and architect. Schindler was active in the 1970s in Franconia first as rock and rock jazz musician before he had flute lessons at the conservatory Nuremberg. Subsequently, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich and worked as an architect. In the 1990s he turned to contemporary music (Arch.Ensemble) and improvised music (Schindler.Interferenz.3). In addition to the single tube instruments (saxophones and clarinets), he studied the cornet. In addition to his sound research, he also worked as a director, performer, musician and composer for various theater productions. In the following years he performed with solo and duo projects at new music festivals (Musica Viva, Klangaktionen, etc ...), jazz, experimental music, among others. This led to collaborations with musicians like Hubert Bergmann, Gerry Hemingway, Eddie Prevost, Sebi Tramontana, Georg Wissel, John Russell, Blaise Siwula, Frank Gratkowski, Hans Koch, Urs Leimgruber, Elisabeth Harnik, Katharina Weber and Frank Paul Schubert. In addition to his activities in solid cast he initiated in Munich a series of concerts to free improvisation in ad hoc to test instrumentation." ^ Hide Bio for Udo Schindler • Show Bio for Nicola L. Hein "Nicola L. Hein (Born 1988 in Düsseldorf) is a guitarist, composer and soundartist. As a guitarist he is mainly concerned about the search for new sounds on his instrument. He plays electric and acoustic guitar with or without preperations and tries to find new ways of playing the guitar within the context of Free Improvised Music and Jazz. He plays the guitar with his hands and plectrum but also with a lot of different objects: screws, rulers, iron wool, violin bow, abrasive paper, magnets and many other objects which are part of his musical vocabulary. The result is his very own world of sounds, which is using the rich potential of the guitar as a creator of sounds. The manual creation is a very important character of this sound world, which never gets distorted by the use of electronic effects. As a composer he finds different ways of integrating philosophical ideas into music and to play music as a form of philosophy. In order to actualize itself the compositional work is always aimed at the improvising musician as a dialectic partner of the composition. From the interplay of these partners an ästhetic emerges that is based on the spontanity of the performance and the setting of aesthetic action spaces alike. As a soundartist he is developing different ways to project the musical ontology of Improvised Music onto different aesthetic rooms. This is done by creating instruments, installations and other ways of using the guitar, which use the musical ontology of Improvised Music as the center of the sonic practise but generate a lot of different sense structures that differ from the usual practise of Improvised Music (for example by creating a scenic sense layer etc.). He also creates sound installations which involve the recipient as a part of the work. The works encourage the recipient to make a special aesthetic experience with different sounds. The aesthetic of these sounds is inspired by the aesthetics of Free Improvised Music. He studied Jazzguitar, Soundart/Composition, Philosophy and German philology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn and the Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Projects with the support of: Initiative Musik, Staatsministerium für Kultur und Medien, Kunststiftung NRW, Deutscher Musikrat, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Kultursekretariat NRW, Ministerium für Familie, Kinder, Jugend, Kultur und Sport des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen, Landesmusikrat NRW, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Staatstheater Mainz, Staatstheater Hannover, ON Neue Musik Cologne, RheinEnergieStiftung Kultur, Kulturamt der Stadt Köln, Kulturamt der Stadt Düsseldorf, Kulturamt der Stadt Essen, Kulturbehörde Hamburg, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln, Köln Musik, Acht Brücken, RWE Stiftung für Energie & Gesellschaft, Second Floor e.V., Jazz Offensive Essen, ZKM Karlsruhe etc. He has worked with: Evan Parker, Phil Minton, John Russell, Paul Lytton, Frank Gratkwoski, Michael Vorfeld, Rudi Mahall, Tobias Delius, Liz Allbee, Christian Lillinger, Ute Wassermann, John Butcher, Axel Dörner, Thomas Lehn, Wilbert de Joode, Tristan Honsinger, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Michael Thieke, Sofia Jernberg, Audrey Chen, Peter Jacquemyn, Carl Ludwig Hübsch, Robert Landfermann, Jon Rose, Sebastian Gramss, Tomomi Adachi, Alfred Zimmerlin, DJ Illvibe etc." ^ Hide Bio for Nicola L. Hein • Show Bio for Nikolaus Neuser "Nikolaus Neuser (* 1972 in Siegen ) is a German jazzmusician ( trumpet, wing horn ). Neuser studied from 1994 to 1998 at the Folkwang-Hochschule in Essen with Uli Beckerhoff. In 1999, he moved to Berlin, where he performed with the Hannes Zerbe Jazz Orchestra ( Eisleriana and Erlkönig ), the Berlin Jazz Orchestra, Pinx, the Potsdama Lotsa formation (with Gerhard Gschlößl, Patrick Braun, Silke Eberhard ), the Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin ( Ichigo Ichie, 2015) and works with The Alliteration. He also heads the Nikolaus Neuser, to whom Bernd Oezsevim, Gerhard Gschlößl, Johannes Fink and Silke Eberhard belong. In 2015 he presented the album Pink Elephant (Jazzwerkstatt). Since 2012 he belongs to the Fun Horns (with Volker Schlott, Falk Breitkreuz, Jörg Huke ). Cooperations with the German Foreign Office, the Goethe Institute and the DAAD enabled him to stay and tour in China, Thailand, Vietnam, North Africa, Lebanon, the USA, Saudi Arabia, Europe and Colombia 2007 at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá. [8th] In the area of pop music he is on albums of || Seeed, Peter Fox, Miss Platnum, 4hero, Pohlmann || Among others. He also worked with the Sonar Collective Orchestra and in the 2000s in the electronic jazz project Trondheym." ^ Hide Bio for Nikolaus Neuser
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Track Listing:
CD1
1. Torso of Air 08:09
2. Notebook Fragments 04:07
3. Logophobia 04:43
4. Seventh Circle of Earth 04:22
5. Prayer for the Newly Damned 08:34
6. Deto-nation 04:46
7. The smallest Measure 03:15
8. Headfirst 04:55
9. Into the Breath 05:00
10. Self-Portrait as Exit Wounds 10:05
CD2
1. Chronicle Breath #1 10:53
2. Chronicle Breath #2 04:04
3. Chronicle Breath #3 04:43
4. Chronicle Breath #4 14:23
5. Chronicle Breath #5 01:51
6 Chronicle Breath #6 03:00
7. Chronicle Breath #7 05:29
8. Chronicle Breath #8 09:08
9. Chronicle Breath #9 03:43
10. Chronicle Breath #10 01:46
11. Chronicle Breath #11 02:27
CD3
1. The Mist Crown 03:21
2. In The Edelweiss Bed 06:17
3. A Death To The Ocean 02:26
4. In The Space Cruiser 04:40
5. An Alphabet Of Hardship 04:41
6. In The Bermuda Polygon 05:44
7. The Brain Coral 07:47
8. Necessary Pause 02:19
9. Toy Of The Spirits 05:04
10. Traces, Here And There 03:40
11. Tide Dancer 05:37
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