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Artist:	KOGLMANN, FRANZ
Title:	An Affair With Strauss
Label:	BETWEEN THE LINES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	BTL 006

"An affair with Strauss? It sounds like a daring idea, and yet, in the end, there is the music as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Franz Koglmann looks for the essence of Strauss' compositions, translates it into the idiom of jazz, defamiliarises it -- and reveals what Strauss himself borrowed from other composers. By keeping at a distance, Koglmann gives us a completely new view of such apparently familiar musical forms as the waltz, for example. But he is not concerned with providing yet another jazzed up interpretation of the compositions he uses as a basis. The music represents Koglmann's musical reflections on the relevance of Strauss against the backdrop of the latest musical developments at the end of the 20th century. As in his other productions, the background is provided, not only by jazz with its tremendous emotional richness provides, but also by New Music with its exactly defined playing with forms.The understanding of jazz has suffered long enough from the misunderstanding that the desire for expression in itself already constitutes art. With his latest production, Koglmann convincingly shows that there is no opposition between intellectualism and an analytical approach on the one hand, and emotionality and expression on the other, but a mutual dependency. Just as Franz Koglmann analytically filters the tender scars of melancholy out of the ecstatic merriment of the waltz, his own music with its crystalline structures and manner of playing is a most precise impression of the uncertainty (or undefinability) of emotions."

Artist:	KOGLMANN, FRANZ
Title:	Don`t Play, Just Be
Label:	BETWEEN THE LINES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	BTL 021

"Franz Koglmann, who likes to cross borders, pursues a dialogue between styles. Using this dialogue, which he consciously allows to include disruptions, Koglmann elegantly and expertly weaves his way along a path that avoids both the classical jazz clichés and the hermetics of e-music. His cool way of bridging worlds is often referred to as the '3rd Vienna School' by critics. On Don't Play, Just Be Koglmann collaborates with one of the world's leading New Music orchestras, the Klangforum Wien, conducted by Emilio Pomárico, and with outstanding jazz soloists. He impressively succeeds in harnessing the traditions of classical modernism and jazz for his very own world of sound. The four movements of the suite Don't Play, Just Be are a dialogue between a jazz quartet the legendary British tenor saxofonist and clarinettist Tony Coe, guitar virtuoso James Emery from New York, Franz Koglmann on the fluegelhorn and Klangforum bassist Uli Fussenegger -- and composed and written processes of European e-music. The dialogue is enhanced by references to a text by Jean Cocteau and the films of Jacques Rivette, as well as hints of French film scores brought in by the accordion and violin."

Artist:	KOGLMANN, FRANZ
Title:	O Moon My Pin-Up
Label:	HATOLOGY (SWITZERLAND)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	HAT 566

"With O-Moon My Pin-Up, Koglmann has undoubtedly enriched his multi-facette oeuvre. Out of the characteristic synthesis of Cool Jazz idiom and Wiener Schule expressionism which had its inception with the founding of the 'Pipetet' has grown over the years a microcosmos of manifold structural links to the entire (western) world of music ranging from Renaissance to improvised music which transcend the co-ordinates of the historic 'Third Stream', not to mention the new dimensions with the tapping of vocal music opens up for Koglmann's soundworld. O-Moon My Pin-Up is not a musical 'judgement' on Ezra Pound, is is neither a condemnation nor an apology. On the contrary, it's a sensitive reflection of the fragile polyphony of speech levels and inflections in Pound's poetry at the time of an existential crisis which is directly connected with the political events surrounding the end of the war." --Peter Niklas Wilson. Recorded 1997. With Phil Minton, Tony Coe, Rudolf Ruschel, Barre Phillips, Angelika Riedl, Raoul Herget, Michael Hintersteininger, etc.

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