Electric guitarist Olaf Rupp, one of the leading figures of Berlin's Echtzeit scene, and Rudi Fischerlehner, an active Berlin improvising drummer, have been playing together as Xenofox for years, releasing albums and playing festivals, here captured at A L'Arme Festival at Radialsystem, in Berlin in 2017 with turntablist Joke Lanz adding to their controlled chaos.
Label: Oltrarno Raw Catalog ID: OLTRAW07 Squidco Product Code: 27209
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2018 Country: Italy Packaging: Digipack Recorded at A L'Arme Festival at Radialsystem, in Berlin, Germany, on August 5th, 2017, by Olaf Rupp.
"A room with view: Olaf Rupp is one of the leading figures of Berlin's very lively improviser's scene since years. Following the tradition of consequent improvisation and deep listening, he constantly explores new ways to work with the electric guitar as a tool for musical communication. Xenofox is a hard working Duo project of Rupp and the Berlin- based eclectic drummer Rudi Fischerlehner.
As the very special Trio "Xenofox & Joke Lanz", they present a unique and innovative form of improvised music for the electric guitar, drums and turntables which is highly entertaining and is clearly influenced by trip hop as well as by punk and performance art through the unmistakeable involvement of the Swiss DJ artist and "Sudden Infant" founding member Joke Lanz. Real-time music at its best!"-Text from the program of A L´Arme Festival Berlin 2017
"Combining the spirit and techniques of free jazz interplay with an unsparingly industrial appeal, the result is electrifying. Rupp, Fischerlehner and Lanz are as tight as their jagged-edge playing will allow. When they're not playing off one another, they're crashing into one another. This is what rock and roll should sound like in 2018."Kevin Press/exclaim!
"Rupp, one of the leading figures of Berlin's Echtzeit scene, and Fischerlehner, an excellent Berlin-based drummer, have been playing together under the moniker Xenofox for years. With Swiss DJ artist Joke Lanz on turntables they combined sampling techniques, trip hop influences and freely improvised music. Lanz (...) was an obvious extension for Xenofox. So it was no surprise that they didn't have to warm up and started raging full-on.
Rupp's unique style with a lot of tremolos and arpeggios and Fischerlehner's grooves were attacked by Lanz' provocative intersperses, which created weird and crass beats. But like in the aforementioned concert with Sophie Agnel the band was at their best in the quieter moments, when they created the atmosphere for the more dynamic passages. A really great show."-Martin Schray/freejazzblog.net