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01. Norbert Eisbrenner - Glentorf 2004
02. Norbert Eisbrenner - Glentorf 2008
03. Norbert Eisbrenner - Kunsthalle Jutz, Celle 2008
04. Norbert Eisbrenner - Glentorf 2008 (with Zoot Horner), pt. 1
05. Norbert Eisbrenner - Glentorf 2008 (with Zoot Horner), pt. 2
06. Norbert Eisbrenner - Glentorf 2008 (with Zoot Horner), pt. 3
07. Norbert Eisbrenner - Rotes Haus, Nienwalde 2008 (with Werner Götz), pt. 1
08. Norbert Eisbrenner - Rotes Haus, Nienwalde 2008 (with Werner Götz), pt. 2
09. Norbert Eisbrenner - Rotes Haus, Nienwalde 2008 (with Werner Götz), pt. 3
10. Norbert Eisbrenner - SÅJ studio, Berlin 2005 (with Sven-Åke Johansson), pt. 1
11. Norbert Eisbrenner - SÅJ studio, Berlin 2005 (with Sven-Åke Johansson), pt. 2
ARTIST
TITLE
Norbert Eisbrenner
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
ET 933-05LP ET 933-05LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
5/5/2023

Norbert Eisbrenner (1935-2022) was a German improvising painter and musician. During the 1960s, he became involved with the West Berlin underground music scene and has played in the free-form group Human Being that evolved around the Zodiak Free Arts Lab, as well as in the trio MND (Moderne Nordeuropäische Dorfmusik), with Sven-Åke Johansson and Werner Götz, and in Schlangenfeuer, MND's later incarnation that was covered previously on Edition Telemark (ET 903-07LP, 2020). After having started out as a saxophone player, Eisbrenner quickly became interested in the electric guitar and, because he couldn't play it the regular way, put it on his knees instead and so became one of the very first improvisers to employ a free-form table-top guitar technique that can be heard on the MND recordings. In the 1970s, he moved to the countryside and has lived in the village of Glentorf in Lower Saxony from 1983 onwards. There, his artistic focus shifted towards painting, but he continued making music intermittently, often employing a special technique of playing the electric guitar with his hands and simultaneously a synthesizer with his feet. Eisbrenner's later recordings have remained unreleased, a selection from the 2000s is presented for the first time on this double-LP. Included are four solo recordings, two tracks with local musician Zoot Horner, and a side each of duos with his former trio partners Götz and Johansson. Full-color sleeve and inner sleeves with reproductions from his series of paintings "Ton in Ton".