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Big Circle

Michael Riessler

Big Circle

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Format: CD
Label: Intuition
UPC: 0750447343528
Catnr: INT 34352
Release date: 01 February 2012
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Intuition
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0750447343528
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INT 34352
Release date
01 February 2012
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Is he allowed to do that? Associations with the large orchestral works of Frank Zappa strike you when you listen to "Big Circle", the latest album by Michael Riessler. That is more than intended too. However, while other musicians are awestruck faced with Zappa's work and try to copy his compositions note for note, Riessler succeeds in that he integrates these associations consciously into his own work. And it is precisely for this reason that you can honestly maintain that he is allowed to do that!
Riessler always finds time to try out new things and release then as recordings. His discography includes more than 30 albums, including daredevil jazz recordings, radio plays, modern classical music and film music. Riessler describes his approach to music as follows: "I could never sit down and just compose a piece." To find a language for composition at all, I need a completely different, arcane grammar. I want to hear the unknown, grab something out of the air and put it together while continually surprising myself at the result."
Michael Riessler has had an intimate music friendship with Zappa drummer Terry Bozzio for more than 10 years, who lets his drumsticks whirl on the track "Hemis". Above all, "Hemis". On one hand, it is the final piece on "Big Circle". On the other hand, it concludes a "work in progress" of Riessler, or perhaps it is "only" a provisional statement, because the career of Michael Riessler is far from over. Contrary to the rest of the album, which was recorded completely in Nuremberg, Hemis is a work created over a period of 10 years, in which many fellow-travelers of Riessler were able to contribute their creative input. In addition to the already mentioned Bozzio, these included Mike Svoboda, Bobby Rangell, Bill Forman, Klaus Burger and JJustafré, among others.
Darf der das? Mehr als einmal überfallen einen beim Hören von „Big Circle“, dem neuesten Album von Michael Riessler, Assoziationen zu den großorchestralen Werken Frank Zappas. Und das ist wohl auch mehr als beabsichtigt. Doch während andere Musiker in Ehrfurcht vor dem FZ-Werk erstarren und Note für Note dessen Kompositionen nachzuspielen versuchen, gewinnt Riessler, indem er diese Assoziationen selbstbewusst in sein eigenes Werk integriert. Und gerade deshalb kann man aufrecht behaupten: der darf das! Riessler selbst beschreibt seinen musikalischen Ansatz so: „Ich könnte mich nie hinsetzen und einfach nur ein Stück schreiben. Um überhaupt meine eigene kompositorische Sprache zu finden, brauche ich eine völlig abseitige Grammatik. Ich will Unbekanntes hören, etwas aus der Luft greifen und zusammenfügen, und mich dabei immer wieder selbst überraschen“. Mit dem Album „Big Circle“ hat er es geschafft, nicht nur sich selbst, sondern auch uns positiv zu überraschen.

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Michael Riessler

We just briefly describe the music career of the clarinetist and composer Riessler, which leaves no doubt about his talent: Composer and musician of the French 'Orchestre National de Jazz', member of the 'Kölner Saxophon Mafia', recordings and tours with Chris Newman & Janet Smith, concerts in The Kitchen and the Knitting Factory (both New York) and at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Den Haag, solo tours with a Karlheinz Stockhausen program (among other places, in Russia, collaboration with (this is really only a very small selection) David Byrne, Carla Bley, Michel Portal, Eberhard Weber, Henri Texier, Renaud Garcia Fons, Steve Reich, John Cage, Otto Sander, Michel Godard, Tomasz Stanko and Michael Gibbs. And he has had an intimate...
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We just briefly describe the music career of the clarinetist and composer Riessler, which leaves no doubt about his talent: Composer and musician of the French "Orchestre National de Jazz", member of the "Kölner Saxophon Mafia", recordings and tours with Chris Newman & Janet Smith, concerts in The Kitchen and the Knitting Factory (both New York) and at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Den Haag, solo tours with a Karlheinz Stockhausen program (among other places, in Russia, collaboration with (this is really only a very small selection) David Byrne, Carla Bley, Michel Portal, Eberhard Weber, Henri Texier, Renaud Garcia Fons, Steve Reich, John Cage, Otto Sander, Michel Godard, Tomasz Stanko and Michael Gibbs. And he has had an intimate music friendship with Zappa drummer Terry Bozzio for more than 10 years, who also lets his drumsticks whirl on the track "Hemis.
In addition to his work as professor at Munich Music and Theater College, artistic director of "scuola sperimentale di cinema" in Rome, for the Laboratorium Improvisation/Composition for Film, 2011 awarded a grant at "Villa Massimo Rome", Composer in Residence at the Louisiana Museum of Copenhagen and as head of the jazz and improvisation courses in Orleans, Toronto, Montreal, Tokyo, Chapel Hill (North Carolina), among others, and various courses in Darmstadt for jazz and improvisation, Riessler always finds time to try out new things and release then as recordings. His discography includes more than 30 albums, including daredevil jazz recordings, radio plays, modern classical music and film music.

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