Ra Ra da Boff is an alter ego for keyboardist Oliver Schwerdt, here performing on electric organ in a trio with trumpeter Axel Dörner and percussionist Roger Turner, the three turning free improvisation on its ear through extended and unusual approaches to their instruments in an impressionistic set of three impressive and slowly tumultuous extended conversations; exemplary!
Format: CD Condition: New Released: 2015 Country: Germany Packaging: Cardstock Sleeve, sealed Recorded at naTo, in Leipzig, Germany, on December 18th, 2013, by Marco Birkner.
"Trumpeter Dorner and percussionist Turner are both perfectly at home in a full blooded, free jazz situation but in all three of these lengthy improvisations, with da Boff playing electric organs and little instruments, they settle into a constantly regenerating micro-environment of small, muted gestures. Dorner is a master of tightly controlled techniques, which he gleefully unpacks here while Turner busies himself with metallic scrapes and rattles, and da Boff adds a throbbing background hum. But after a while it's not so easy to tell who's doing what. Who's that tinkering with a piano's innards? Is that mooning growl coming from an organ or a trumpet? Or is it a disconsolate Wookiee trying to take the stage?-Daniel Spicer, Wire Magazine