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01. Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble - Music For Angela Davis No.2
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ARTIST
CAIRO FREE JAZZ ENSEMBLE
TITLE
Music for Angela Davis
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
HOLIDAYS RECORDS
CATALOG #
HOL 135LP
HOL 135LP
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
12/24/2021
During Holiday Records' long friendship and incredibly prolific collaboration with
Hartmut Geerken
-- who sadly left this planet on October 21, 2021 -- he never ceased to surprise. He lived many lives, traveling the world as an employee of the Goethe Institute, playing with other incredible musicians, and being smart enough to record most of the concerts he did. His archive is in fact full of treasures, and any conversation with him could lead to the rediscovery of unheard master tapes preserving true music gold. It was during the one of these conversations we had at his house - while searching for pictures to be used for the 50th anniversary reissue of
Heliopolis
(HOL 124LP) -- that he pulled the original score of
Music for Angela Davis No. 2
out of a folder, saying with a smile: "Let's see... I should have the complete recording of this one"!
Recorded at Nile Hall, Cairo, on December 4, 1971,
Music for Angela Davis
is a 24-minute composition that encounters two full ensembles -- respectively conducted by Geerken himself and
Hubertus Von Puttkamer
-- playing simultaneously without listening to each other, rising and falling within a brilliant and structurally complex expression of call and (non) response. Collective improvisation in its most heightened and sophisticated form.
As described by Geerken in the liner notes: "One of my attempts with the
Cairo Free Jazz Ensemble
was my time-related, but timeless composition
Music for Angela Davis
. I divided the ensemble into two groups of roughly the same size, each with a conductor, and both groups played simultaneously, according to the different hand signals of the conductors, without one group reacting to or considering the other. The only two-tone sequences consisted of the music-able notes of the name Angela Davis, i. e. a-g-e-a and d-a s. The composition was an attempt to get together in society through the medium of improvisation and a protest against the racial measurements of the American governments." Unreleased archival recording; single-sided LP; edition of 500.
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