(Free Jazz, Modern Creative, Hat Hut) Ton-Art - 2 albums: Zu - 1989, Mal Vu. Mal Dit. - 1991, FLAC (image+.cue), lossless

01 - Der Tod meiner kleinen Anarchistin
02 - Fragment I
03 - Fragment II
04 - Sou
05 - Das sechste Gebot
06 - Es webert schon am Koglberg
07 - Sieben billige Handschuhtage
08 - Deadline
09 - Was will das Gespenst
10 - Notorisch Hippopotamus
11 - Sternspritzer im Ohr: Reihenweise

Klaus Peham - trumpet & flugelhorn
Bernhard Spahn - alto saxophone
Johann Karl Steiner - bass clarinet
Burkhard Staghl - guitar
Werner Dafeldecker - bass
Paul Skrepek - drums
Franz Koglmann - flugelhorn (on Sou only)

Ton-Art's music grows directly out of everything that ever was in jazz and European music. Period. A lot of people try this, and a lot of bands are successful at it to some degree, Franz Koglmann for one - the heart of this unit, Burkhard Stangl, is his guitarist - who began this investigation into creating something new out of the tatters of old signatory systems. Ton-Art have upped that ante by combining everything at once and trying to alter the very identities they've adopted for their determinedly cross-purposes. The opening track, "Der Tod Meiner Kleinen Anarchistin," by bass clarinet chair Johan Karl Steiner, holds the early Ellington-ian harmonic arrangement up to the flame of Berg's overture to Lulu and pushes it through the eye of the harmonic counterpoint needle first threaded by Jimmy Giuffre. But as a sextet, this isn't good enough; there have to be free jazz strains of 12 tone rows abutted against dodecaphonic avant-garde-ism. Then, on top of this, on "Das Seschste Gebot" (Steiner again) mutilates Anton Webern's violin concerto - at least the initial fifths - and turns their near-lyrical grace in against themselves in a cacophony of jazz aggression and honking almost Ike Quebec style. So what to make of all this Euro twaddle calling itself art? Call it artful, call it artless, and call it garbage if you want to, but you'll never extinguish the heartfelt, humor, virtuosic sophistication, or musical genius that is Ton-Art. This is music of a caliber that transcends its collage pretensions and program music tomfoolery. Here are all the musical structures of Western culture placed in the context of conflict without hope for resolution, with the only bridge between them being improvisation and the will of a collective of composers who know their stuff cold. They can mix it, because the match is in the setting up of conflict for the sake of meaning, not resolution, whether it be in jazz, classical "new music," or the poetry of improvisation. Ton-Art have, along with Koglmann who blazed the trail, set a new paradigm; not only for examining a past that is coughing up its last breath, but for a future that preserves relics by coloring them with the shapes, tones, and languages of others.

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01 - Good Luck George Washington & Kim Novak
02 - Metamorphology
03 - Neun Passagen
04 - Suite Pour des Voleurs
05 - Vedute
06 - Die Bralasurende Saravalla
07 - Dada & Bravo
08 - Mal Vu. Mal Dit.
09 - TV Ton-Art

Susanna Heilmayr - baroque oboe, viola
Bernhard Spahn - alto saxophone
Hans Steiner - bass clarinet
Klaus Peham - trumpet & flugelhorn
Tom Varner - french horn
Burkhard Stangl - guitar
Michael Moser - cello
Werner Dafeldecker - bass
Paul Skrepek - drums

Where Ton Art's Zú was an angular mix and match of all the dying music styles of the 20th century whose parts were used to create something new and different, it was still an effort that required the blending of those styles by musicians who had different approaches to them. Here, that sextet with two more years of grafting and extrapolating under their belts has expanded to a nonet, offering more opportunities than ever for cultural and musical terrorism. The group's latest offering is more solid, but less solidly any one thing. The new band adds Michael Moser's cello, Susana Heilmayer on baroque oboe and viola, and Tom Varner on French horn to the septet's alto sax, bass clarinet, bass, drums, trumpet, flugelhorn, and guitar mix. What is revealed on Mal Vu Mal Dit Is not so much the destruction of the rules of any particular game but a band that experiments musically with the rules of any of those games they devise as a whole. So, the CD begins by reaching deeply into 1930s jazz and serial tone rows to make them swing as in "Good Luck George Washington & Kim Novak" by Tom Varner and arranged by Hans Steiner. Here avant-garde improvisation sits atop smattered ostinato muted trumpet figures and glissandi strings and a horn section playing a section of Schöenberg's Moses und Aaron in blues time. The centerpiece of the album is guitarist Burkhard Stangl's "Neun Passages," a jazz work so complex it cannot be contained within the term. The charts are all written for instruments playing at the top of their registers in varying harmonies, with no discernible melodic framework between them. Intermittent passages of improvisation, almost always brief, are layered between repetitious lines and ostinato figures. Shades of Milhaud and Henry Cowell are layered in between swing measures, and Berg makes an appearance next to Bud Powell and "Little Rootie Tootie!." The strange thing is, with all the celebratory jazz, the piece is, for the most part, bleak, moody, and strung with a harmonic counterpoint that extracts almost all the color from its palette. Perhaps this meditation on melancholy results in the free jazz "Suite pur des Voleurs," dedicated to Jean-Luc Godard by Steiner. Here, free blowing and loose, harmonic collages abound, carrying the entire band over into a morass of gorgeous cacophony. Rhythm and meter disappear into the vanishing specters of melodic presences where only tonality and voicings count for expression. By and large, though the charts are more complex and the music more dense, and thus more demanding on listeners to find themselves in the music, Mal Vu Mal Dit is deeply satisfying as a record of changes in how we perceive the relationship between musical history and music, and how deeply fixed our ideas about harmony, melody, and rhythm can be and still allow for angular, even jagged intrusions to widen our perspective.

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