Expanding on their 1977 FMP album of open-air improvisations by Peter Brotzmann and Han Bennink, recording in the Black Forest of Baden-Wurttemberg using wind instruments & percussion, the ambiance of birds and planes, water, drums from logs, &c.; an idiosyncratic and wonderful album of free possibilities, now paired with a book of photos from their excursion.
Format: BOOK + CD Condition: New Released: 2022 Country: Austria Recorded in the Blackforest near Aufen, Germany, on May 9th, 10th and 11th, 1977. Schwarzwaldfahrt was originally released in 1977 as a vinyl LP on the FMP label with catalog code FMP 0440.
"Schwarzwaldfahrt is a magical document of a moment out of time, a moment when the saxophone player Peter Brotzmann and percussionist Han Bennink made a journey deep into the heart of the Black Forest with early portable recording equipment and cameras.
The recordings that they made there were released as the Schwarzwaldfahrt album by FMP in 1977 and it remains a free music classic, recorded completely in the open air, with Bennink and Brotzmann duetting with the birds, playing in the water, drumming on great natural xylophones made of logs and catching the sounds of airplanes strafing the skies. It is a music of eternal expansion, of elemental communion.
This new book comes with the original recordings on a CD and is assembled round a treasure trove of newly discovered photographs taken during the trip by both Brotzmann and Bennink -- photographs of each other, of their lodgings, of their ritual communions, of their route into, and out of the forest."-Trost Records
"It's so lonely, this music, these two friends, making music on their own, in all of this space, and back of time, now, too, a document of a world that seems less populated -- by people, by ideas, by demands, by the tyranny of modern time, itself."-David Keenan