Zentralquartett: Plie

Baby Sommer, Günter, Bauer, Conrad

INT 037

«Plié» is something like a curtsey, bending your knees, a dance step. Ballett language. At any rate it has something to do with dancing, says Sommer. What Petrowsky says sounds similar, but is perhaps meant in a somewhat different way. The Zentralquartett still acts according to the principles of direct democracy, even after twenty years. Or was it different back then? But that is a different story. But not forgotten. Listen to Conference at Lutens! There it is again. The sound of uprising that honorable historians perhaps wrote off to tradition somewhat too soon. More like a tradition of walking out. At best a complete exit from the other. Away from African-American, Black music, which at one time was simply called jazz. No one wanted it to be like that, they say today. The Zentralquartett swings. Always wanted to swing?

The sound of the suburbs and the conferences. The primeval times of Synopsis, Zentralquartett’s precursor. Sessions in Pretowsky’s hut on the outskirts of Berlin, around the corner from the big airport. Country house is what Gumpert calls it. Experiments in composition and discussions about music, sitting together and blathering for hours... more info: http://www.intaktrec.ch/037-a.htm

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