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OM: It's About Time
by Ian Patterson
In 1982, after five albums in ten years, Swiss free-jazz quartet OM called it a dayits four members, Christy Doran, Fredy Studer, Urs Leimgruber and Bobby Burri going their separate ways. A supposed one-off reunion in 2007 to open an exhibition on the youth movement of the 1960s and 1970s led to a successful series of festivals appearances on home turf. Those concerts resulted in the live album Willisau (Intakt Records, 2010), a return to OM's improvisational heartland, and signalled ...
read moreFredy Studer & DJ M. Singe: Duos
by Glenn Astarita
Swiss drummer/percussionist, Fredy Studer previously crossed musical paths with New York City reared turntable/electronics ace DJ. M Singe (Beth Coleman) during his tenure with the Koch/Schutz/Studer band. Here, the drummer and DJ M. Singe reunite for some artistically inclined fun and frolic. Although recorded in Zurich, Switzerland this effort parallels much of what has been emanating from New York City’s “downtown scene.” On the opener “Duo 14,” Studer lays down a sturdy pattern consisting of electronically treated cymbals and bass ...
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