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Badminton In Tehran is Zwerm's first record in which all tracks are composed by Zwerm and it grooves like a Rube Goldberg-machine; DIY and slightly irregular. Zwerm is an electric guitar quartet based in Belgium and founded in 2007; its members are Toon Callier, Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelissen, and Kobe van Cauwenberghe. Over the years the group has collaborated with various composers, performers and visual artists. On Badminton In Tehran, all songs by Zwerm, and the album was produced by Rudy Trouvé. Zwerm has never strived for a one-sided artistic profile. During the past ten years the quartet has dallied among pure noise-improv, English renaissance music and contemporary composed music. The common denominator being not so much a particular stylistic view but rather a shared curiosity, Zwerms projects typically start with the question: 'what would happen if ...' Badminton In Tehran started with the question: 'what would happen if we would work with grooves for a few months?' After that, anything was allowed. The band created an online space where each member could drop personal demos, which could then be used freely by the others. Within a few months, a primordial soup of beats and grooves and little snippets of text was created. Once the recording sessions started, with producer Trouvé, this served as the raw material out of which ten new songs were crafted. Includes download.
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NW 80748CD
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"A collection of one-page pieces by Karl Berger, Earle Brown, Alvin Curran, Nick Didkovsky, Joel Ford, Daniel Goode, Clinton McCallum, Larry Polansky, and Christian Wolff. The 'one-page piece' -- a written-down musical composition that fits on a single piece of paper -- is appealing to a group like the Belgian/Dutch electric guitar quartet Zwerm. Zwerm and their collaborators took full advantage of the opportunity to create their own scores out of the one-page pieces, to allow their own creativity and compositional ideas to run free, to explore interesting sound worlds, and to seek out possible links between the pieces. These positive experiences are inherent to the format of the one-page piece: a composer provides a musical idea, in traditional notation, prose, graphics, or some combination of all three; sometimes this idea is rough or conceptual, sometimes more clear in its musical content and process. The rest is up to the musicians. Collaborative brainstorming is necessary, and many ideas might be tried out before settling on a particular way of realizing the piece; often, the possibilities seem endless, limited only by one's conventional training, adherence to idiomatic instrumental techniques, and musical sensibilities. This collaborative brainstorming works best when the ensemble is made up of adventurous musicians who trust each other. One-page pieces fall into the category of process pieces. With roots in the history of American experimental music, both process pieces and one-page pieces are sometimes traced back to Terry Riley's minimalist masterpiece 'In C' of 1964. The recordings on this CD represent a crossover project in which Zwerm looks for connections between the sound worlds of blues, free improvisation, experimental rock, noise, minimalism, and many other contemporary musical ideas. Zwerm are Johannes Westendorp, Bruno Nelissen, Kobe Van Cauwenberghe, Toon Callier (guitars); with Eric Thielemans (drums, percussion); Bertel Schollaert (saxophone); Matthias Koole (guitar); Thomas Moore (voice-over)."
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