An early assemblage of the EUPHORIUM_freakestra led by pianist Oliver Schwerdt in a 2000 concert at Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Leipzig, each work part of a fictional narrative of a figure called Birg Borgenthal, realized through a combination of improvisation and contemporary chamber music, orchestrated for 3 pianists, 2 guitarists, and 3 singers and narrators.
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2017 Country: Germany Packaging: Digipack - 3 panel w/ booklets Recorded at Hochschule fur Musik und Theater in Leipzig, Germany, on December 16th and 17th, 2000, by Gilbert Eiche.
"The EUPHORIUM_freakestra in it's early days already formulating an album presenting different musical styles one piece after another. For sure the focus seems to lie on an improvisatory approch to dealing with contemporary chamber music. Yet every time EUPHORIUM delivers and lives for definite auditory adventures.
Here you will find music creating sounds for some delicious situations on the being of an imaginary figure called Birg Borgenthal. Listen to the ultimate narrations Friedrich Kettlitz performs to some collisions of a pair of litle but thick crotales!
Besides Oliver Schwerdt you can find Beate Wein and Dorren Mende celebrating personal excursions on the keyboard of a grand piano. For the first time Schwerdt and Kettlitz sit down sharing the first step of a process that once will drive their design of an neverending electric organ drone up to the arts of Axel Dorner and Roger Turner, Urs Leimgruber and Joris Ruhl, Antonin Gerbal and Hannes Lingens.
But the cornerstone of these adventures arises from the encounter of Kettlitz and french chansonnier Guillaume Maupin. Both are touching the inner heart of musical being within an intense avantgardistic dialogue."-Euphorium Records