Hermann Keller
Schwebungen Brechungen
Edition RZ (Germany) 1987
EDRZ 10001 (LP)
sleeve : EX+(slightly wear on corner.)
media : EX+/EX+(some slightly noises.)
Hermann Hermann is a composer/pianist from former East Germany who started his career as a jazz musician in the early 1970s and since then has been active as an improviser in Berliner Improvisations-Quartett, Michel Sell Orchester, and other groups. This solo album was released in 1987 on Edition RZ, which has released many masterpieces of contemporary and avant-garde music since the mid-1980s. The album is a free improvisation piece that makes full use of the prepared piano, which is said to have been invented by John Cage, and uses percussion-like ideas such as inserting small cymbals, nails, or other metal objects into the strings of a grand piano, or striking the strings or keys with a hammer while scraping the strings with a metal tube, It is a music of “echoes” created by various ideas, from a unique reverberating sound that resonates in the air, to a sawtooth wave that trembles dully, to a percussion sound that is completely transformed into percussion, or by pressing the tip of a recorder against a plate placed over the keyboard and blowing it.
A1: Ex Tempore VI Und Anrufung
B1: Sduvebringen/Breduingen