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Artist:	FUCHS, LIMPE
Title:	Vogel Musik
Label:	ROBOT
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ROBOT 037CD

"Performing in the late 1960s and through the early '80s as half of the German duo Anima (with Paul Fuchs), Limpe Fuchs continues to explore music-making as a part of everyday life. Her vibrant live performances are numerous and consist of solo as well as ongoing collaborative works. With her new release, Vogel Musik (or 'Bird-music'), Limpe is heard performing a series of duos with multi-instrumentalist Christoph Reiserer (saxes/clarinet). The duo then extends to a trio with Julia Schoelzel (on piano), featuring a piece recorded at Musikfest, Munich, in 2004. The themes that developed from these recent recordings revealed a beautiful and bizarre series of compositions that have now been collected on CD for the first time. With an array of movements and audio dialogue amongst the performers, the bird-related themes have an equally visual quality that correlate perfectly with such titles as 'Zwiegespräch' (Dialogue) and 'Fliegen' (Flying). Using her voice and violin, along with a vast assortment of custom and homemade percussion instruments, Limpe's work emits a remarkable sense of space and otherworldly atmosphere that one may liken to acts in musical theatre. Vogel Musik takes flight with a fresh set of utterly unique pieces from a true musical visionary. Packaged in a full-color digipak with illustrations by Christoph Heemann."

Artist:	FUCHS, LIMPE
Title:	Nur Mar Mus
Label:	STREAMLINE (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	STREAM 1016CD

Repress of this 1999 release. "It is no exaggeration to say that Limpe Fuchs' musical creations really have a life of their own, whether the sounds are produced by conventional instruments, vocal chords, or even from objects she found or constructed specifically for that purpose. Her music is characterized, especially when she is playing the ballastring instruments, by the reverberating humming of the strings, rich in overtones, and by the mysterious echoes emanating from stones. For Limpe Fuchs, music means setting out on a joyous journey of discovery. She is not afraid to leave firm ground behind and thus, by avoiding rigidity, preserves the vitality of her music. This particularly comes across when collaborating with other musicians, whether improvising freely or on a given theme. Her music makes us sit up and listen, and at the same time enriches us, for only when we have learned how to listen can we really appreciate the true nature of things. 'Sound events are created for each composition with carefully chosen materials: rows of oakwood pieces, rows of marble and serpentinit stones, bronze sheets, horn of wood, ballast string instruments, developed by Paul Fuchs: heavy bronze bars fixed on a long piano wire, suspended from a broad bronze drum. The visual aspect is of the same importance as the acoustic. The violin is integrated into the sound environment, the piano creates its own characteristic. Life and music alive is music no life without music the musical material the touch the stone the breath my body touch the body of the material strike tickle scratch the stone vibration of the air touch the body symphony of vibration play instructions experience musical notation combination of sounds different touching.'"

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