Hans Reichel
MUSIQUES INSOLITES
HANS REICHEL
PAUL LYTTON
'Rare performance by 2 mavericks of the euro improv scene who extended their instruments to a new level'
HANS REICHEL wordt sinds een veertigtal jaar internationaal erkend als één van de meest innovatieve gitaristen in Europa. Behalve een divers gamma aan speeltechnieken, ontwierp hij ook instrumenten met opvallende nieuwe mogelijkheden, hetgeen hem onderscheidt van zijn collega gitaristen. Sinds de jaren ’80 speelt hij ook daxofoon, een snaarloos instrument van eigen makelij bestaande uit een houten tong, die bespeeld wordt met een strijkstok. Live is Reichel een devoot improvisator omwille van het directe aspect en de entertainende relatie tot het publiek. Hij bracht verscheidene LP’s en CD’s uit, voornamelijk op het Duits FMP label en werkte samen met performers uit verscheidene disciplines als Koreaanse Komungo en Butoh dans.
PAUL LYTTON is een inventieve drummer in de traditie van de Europese free jazz, en een pionier in zowel het elektronisch bewerken van geluid als het ontwerpen van instrumenten. Eind jaren ’60 stortte hij zich in de vrije improvisatie - samen met Evan Parker met wie hij grensverleggende albums uitbracht op de labels Incus en Moers. Lytton was ook stichtend lid van de London Musicians’ Cooperative en speelde een voorname rol in de Londense improv scene van ’70 tot ’75. Sindsdien werkte hij samen met o.a. Paul Lovens, Barry Guy, Fred van Hove, Derek Bailey, Ken Vandermark en Nate Wooley. Sinds enkele jaren is Lytton voornamelijk te vinden op het befaamde ECM label. 
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Since about 40 years HANS REICHEL has been internationally recognized as one of the leading innovators of the acoustic and electric guitar. From the beginning he has found himself not only expanding the range of playing techniques, but also designing and making instruments with entirely new features. With the research and the musical output influencing each other, he has achieved a wide range of unique sound possibilities which set him apart from contemporary guitarists. Since the mid-eighties he also plays the stringless daxophone which is equally of his own invention and design. With a startling resemblance to human and animal voices, it is an array of oddly shaped wooden tongues being „animated“ by the stroke of a bow. The design and function of his instruments have been frequently discussed at length in major American, Japanese and European periodicals. Reichel has always committed himself to improvised music (instant composing) which he believes is one of the most stimulating and entertaining forms to display musical ideas, spontaneous group interaction, and fun to the public. His work has been released on many LP's and CD's, mostly on the notorious German FMP label. Besides he has toured all over Europe, North America and Asia and worked with many influential musicians of the international avantgarde and improvised music scene aswell with artists from different cultural and stylistic backgrounds like Korean Komungo players, Japanese Butoh dancers and Shakuhachi players. Furthermore Reichel has given many lectures and workshops and his music has been featured in various theatre pieces and movies. In the beginning of 2001 he was commissioned to make a daxophone sound-track for Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors".
Percussionist PAUL LYTTON (1947) is both an inventive, textural drummer in the tradition of European free jazz, and a pioneer in electronic sound processing and the use of homemade instruments of his own invention. Lytton made his first noteworthy appearances on the British creative music scene in the late '60s where got to play drums on the timeless classic debut album by 'The White Noise'. Simultaneously he began experimenting with free improvisational music and starts a collaboration with multi reedist Evan Parker. The duo released a couple of groundbreaking albums on the Incus and Moers Label. Lytton was a founding member of the London Musicians' Cooperative and collaborated with various other artists on the London improvisers' scene from 1970 until 1975. He also developed a strong relationship with Aachen-based percussionist Paul Lovens which resulted ina few albums on Lovens' label Po Torch. Furtehrmore he has worked with a.o. Barry Guy, Fred van Hove, Derek Bailey, Alexander von Schlippenbach and more recently with Ken Vandermark and Nate Wooley Lytton has performed in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan as a soloist and in various combinations with other improvising musicians. Lyttons recent works have been released on the famous ECM label.
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