CD ECM Records Heiner Goebbels: Der Mann im Fahrstuhl

Album inregistrat in martie 1988 in studiourile Sound On Sound, New York.

Compozitor - Heiner Goebbels

Interpreteaza:
Arto Lindsay - voce, chitara electrica
Ernst Stotzner - voce
Don Cherry - voce, trompeta, doussn’gouni
Fred Frith - chitara electrica, bass
Charles Hayward - tobe, percutie
George Lewis - trombon
Ned Rothenberg - saxofon, bas clarinet
Heiner Goebbels - pian, sintetizatoare, computer

ecmreviews:
"Heiner Goebbels continues his (man)made-in-heaven collaboration with Heiner Muller in this fascinating piece of hate mail to the modern condition. Drawing on talents as diverse as Arto Lindsay, Ned Rothenberg, George Lewis, Fred Frith, and Don Cherry, it begins as it ends: in a dance of doppelgangers. Lindsay carefully plots every step of this morbid ball with his delicate guitar. He is the everyman, the proverbial drone splashing his thoughts against the sphere of his labor, rattling like the many cages of transport that carry him through life’s many turns. Like his instrumental comrades, he is constructed by his attire, tuned to the plight of interaction. Lindsay’s omnipleasant diction luxuriates in every rounded r, a tempered steel to Rothenberg’s engaging reeds, the latter a guardian angel fluttering at our backs, constantly tapping the shoulder of those of us who cannot help but ignore the gesture, we in whom ignorance is a coping mechanism.
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This is an altogether evocative work (in more ways than one), and then some. Like any self-respecting postmodernists, its creators always seem to implicate themselves in the very destructions they describe. Which is perhaps why the elevator is the perfect metaphor: its verticality is counterintuitive to the horizontal passage of human traffic. In that 90-degreee intersection lies more than a geometrical relationship, but something of a defining moment, a physical decay that can be felt in the indeterminacies of music-making, in the fragility of song, and in the power of speech."