Eschewing his many monikers (Birg Borgenthal, Elan Pauer and Ra Ra da Boff) pianist Oliver Schwerdt steps away from EUPHORIUM_freakestra, uses his given name, and takes the stage of the Bauhaus building in Dessau where such legends as Fred van Hove and Alexander von Schlippenbach have played, to record these four exemplary and extended, kinetic & free solo piano improvisations.
Format: 2 CDs Condition: New Released: 2019 Country: Germany Packaging: Jewel Case Recorded at Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany, on June 18th, 2015, by Torsten Schroth.
"Now Oliver Schwerdt, long-term leader of the miraculous EUPHORIUM_freakestra formerly coming up with such illustrious pseudonyms as Birg Borgenthal, Elan Pauer and Ra Ra da Boff introduces himself on behalf of his civil name as a stakeholder in the art of piano solo.
After his adventurous collaborations with as many as ten (!) masters of contemporarily improvised music which, from Barre Phillips to Robert Landfermann, released influential unaccompanied solo records during the while of six decades Schwerdt's approach is nothing less than to perform an arc of tension lasting about three quarters of an hour - only on the keys.
Climbing that height Schwerdt, who worked there for a period of ten years, decided to perform his solely kinetic studies at the Bauhaus building in Dessau. Everybody knows that the circle working there in the 1920s was about spending their talents to the most influential catapult of modern conceptualizing of space. But there are few who still have in mind that in the 1970s and 80s the same place developed a hot spot of contemporary music improvisation. Some dozens of famous free jazz and improvising artists then pulled out there radical sonic impacts at the eyes and ears of the legendary GDR audience and made clear where Arnold Schönbergs, Kandinsky's friend's revolution had went.
Oliver Schwerdt spreads out his fingers on that stage where workers like Fred van Hove and Alexander von Schlippenbach theirselves were once laiding the foundation stone of this music. Listen to "Training At The Bauhaus", "Voicing In The Bauhaus", "Rolling On The Bauhaus" on the first and finally to the ultimate of "The Storming Of The Bauhaus Dessau" on the second CD! Getting aware of this title design Schwerdt is not coming along without bowing his thanks to his magnificent friend and musical leader Baby Sommer."-Euphorium Records