Hartmut Geerken

Hartmut Geerken & The Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Zero Sun No Point

by Mark Corroto
February 1, 2002

For over thirty years the band known as The Art Ensemble of Chicago has been practicing the art of sampling. Sampling has, until very recent history, not been an accepted musical form. As a listening public, we now find general acceptance with cut and spliced sounds in popular music and television. The AEC has practiced this art form for well over thirty years. Theirs is not tape and digital sample as much as it is samples from the African experience ...

Hartmut Geerken/John Tchicai/Famoudou Don Moye: Cassava Balls

by Robert Spencer
January 1, 2000

Hartmut Geerken, John Tchicai, and Famoudou Don Moye are all masters of improvisation and of deeply-felt music that smolders with passionate zeal. This disc was recorded live at the “Praxis '85" festival in Athens, Greece on May 8, 1985, a night when, by the sound of things, each man was in thorough musical command.

They begin at the absolute height, and then fill the rest of the night with other colors. The opening track, “Patriotic Poem Number One Forty Years ...

Hartmut Geerken / John Tchicai / Famoudou Don Moye: Cassava Balls

by Robert Spencer
December 1, 1999

Hartmut Geerken, John Tchicai, and Famoudou Don Moye are all masters of improvisation and of deeply-felt music that smolders with passionate zeal. This disc was recorded live at the “Praxis '85" festival in Athens, Greece on May 8, 1985, a night when, by the sound of things, each man was in thorough musical command.

They begin at the absolute height, and then fill the rest of the night with other colors. The opening track, “Patriotic Poem Number One Forty Years ...