Wolfgang Dauner
Output
Warner-Pioneer (Japan) 1971
P-8113P (LP) Promotional copy.
sleeve : EX-(light wear on edge and corner, light collapse on one corner.)
media : EX/EX(some slightly noise.)
A ferociously intense, career-defining masterpiece from German jazz pianist Wolfgang Dauner, active since the 1960s and originally released in 1970. Performed in a trio with Eberhard Weber (b, cello, g) and Fred Braceful (perc, voice), the album detonates with extreme freak energy throughout: the ultra-dangerous experimental jazz of B1, where exotic drums and a crazed clavinet solo whirl relentlessly through your head; the wildly unhinged abstract ethnic jazz of B2, built on an indigenous, almost Tibetan-like rhythmic pulse entwined with bizarre clavinet and cello melodies; and the deep-space jazz of B3, where every sound flutters freely under Dauner’s uncanny voicings. Even among early ECM titles, this stands out as one of the most far-out—an album of total freak music from start to finish. Drop the needle anywhere and you’re hit with something outrageous: Dauner in this period was completely off the map. Highest recommendation. Also featured in both editions of guidebooks Obscure Sound. This copy is the exceptionally rare promotional copy of Japanese pressing issued under Pioneer license the year after the original ECM release, with alternate artwork.
A2: Output
A3: Bruch
B3: Brazing the high sky full