CD 9130-2
Recording
date: July 29 / 30 / 31 2001
Recording location: Studio Vagnnson
Recorded by: Hrôlfur Vagnnson
Producer: Werner Aldinger
Cover Photo: Sven Paustian
Helmut Copak (inside)
Cover Design: HP Pitterle
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Aki Takase p - Rudi Mahall bcl
- Fred Frith git - Nils Wogram tb
- Paul Lovens dr
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St. Louis Blues (W.C. Handy) 3:56
2 Way Down South Where the Blues Began (W.C. Handy)
8.15
3 Mobilat (Rudi Mahall) 2:44
4 Morning Star (W.C. Handy) 4:13
5 Eine Drehorgel aus dem 21. Jahrhundert (Aki Takase)
7:29
6 Lulu (Harry Warren) 2:06
7 Wer kommt mehr vom Blues (Rudi Mahall) 2:32
8 St. Louis Blues (W.C. Handy) 4:54
9 Nur da wo du bist da ist nichts (Aki Takase)
4:15
10 Memphis Blues (W.C. Handy) 2:37
11 Jazz Ain’t What It Used To Be (Nils Wogram)
4:07
12 Yellow Dog Blues (W.C. Handy) 4:08 |
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Sometimes
in a dream you come across a familiar street
or a good friend, and they look somehow different. Yet
you recognize them, you feel almost that you have had
a glimpse of their essence. A minute shift or a slight turn
of phrase add life, wit and sensuality to the familiar
picture.
Those famous old melodies that suddenly surface through
Aki Takase's music only to drift away again remind me
of the wonderful images we see in a dream.
Yoko Tawada, translated by Ilse Zambonini
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W.
C. Handy (1873-1958), the „Father of the Blues,“ wrote more than 70
compositions many of which became evergreens. Never making a secret of his
inspirational sources, Handy would frankly explain that he got his
compositional ideas from listening to the people in the streets. His most
popular tune, „St. Louis Blues,“ was written in 1913 and started
Handy’s own publishing house. For this composition Handy got inspiration
from several sources, among them a woman in St. Louis who sang the blues
while frying fish, a piano player in Memphis and the tango and habanera
tunes that were quite fashionable at that time. Like in ragtime, the
„St. Louis Blues“ is composed of several parts. There is a 12-bar
blues verse („I hate to see the evening sun go down“), a 16-bar
section with a Spanish tinge („St. Louis Woman with her diamond
rings“), and a 12-bar blues chorus („Got the St. Louis blues, I’m
blue as I can be“). Normally this composition is played in the form of
AABC. While the three sections can also be combined in other ways, the
habanera part (section B), probably a heritance of the Spanish-Creole
tradition, is mostly used as a formal hinge within the overall form.
Hans-Jürgen
Schaal
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