Artist: DREI IM ROTEN KREIS
title: 16 MM
label: JazzSick Records
catalogue-no: 8003 JSS
distribution: In Akustik / ESC Medien
release date: 25. Juni 2010
REINER WITZEL : ALTO-SAXOPHONE , FLUTE , BASSCLARINET , EFX
CHRISTIAN SCHEUBER : DRUMS , TAIKO
JOSCHA OETZ : ACOUSTIC BASS

1. PROLOGUE ( WITZEL ) ...01:05
2. NORTHERN FIELDS ( WITZEL )...06:36
3. 16 MM ( WITZEL ) ...02:44
4. BLUES FOR BELFAST ( WITZEL ) ...04:05
5. LONNIE`S LAMENT ( COLTRANE ) ...06:06
6. INTRO TO ECHOES OF THE UNIVERSE ( WITZEL ) ...00:42
7. ECHOES OF THE UNIVERSE ( WITZEL/BRINGMANN) ...04:40
8. WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE ( PORTER ) ...04:46
9. SOUL EYES ( WALDRON ) ...05:21
10. BUSHWICK 2: A.M. ( WITZEL) ...03:29
11. HAFENHUNDE ( WITZEL ) ...07:21
12. FRAGMENT ( WITZEL ) ...04:08
13. VOLGA ( WITZEL ) ...07:20
14. EPILOGUE ( WITZEL ) ...02:23

recorded oct. 6. & 7.2009 by Lars Wallat at "Jazz-Schmiede" Düsseldorf
mixed by Reinhard Kobialka at Topaz-Studios
mastered by Andreas Kolinski
produced by Reiner Witzel

REINER WITZEL ABOUT THE PIECES :

1) THE PROLOGUE OPENS THE DOOR TO THE CD.
2) NORTHERN FIELDS WAS INSPIRED BY A WALK THROUGH THE WINDY MEADOWS IN THE
SURROUNDINGS OF A FESTIVAL IN THE NORTH OF GREECE.
3) 16 MM REFERS TO A SCENE IN AN ANTONIONI MOVIE, IN WHICH A LOVE SCENE REPEATS
ITSELF ENDLESSLY IN A GROTESTQUE WAY.
4) BLUES FOR BELFAST WAS INSPIRED BY IRISH FLUTE MUSIC.
5) LONNIE`S LAMENT IS A BEAUTIFULLY EMOTIONAL COLTRANE-SONG THAT I HAVE ALWAYS
LOVED.
6) INTRO TO ECHOES OF THE UNIVERSE: A SAXOPHONE INSTRODUCTION PLAYED WITH
ELECTRONIC EFFECTS INSTRODUCING THE NEXT TITLE :
7) ECHOES OF THE UNIVERSE WAS INSPIRED BY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE RATIONALE
BEHIND EXISTENCE DURING A NIGHT TRIP FOLLOWING A PERFORMANCE.
8) WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE IS A PIECE I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED BECAUSE OF ITS
RELAXED MOOD THAT WE HAVE REINFORCED BY A LATIN INTERLUDE.
9) SOUL EYES: YEARS AGO I MET MEL WALDRON AT A FESTIVAL. AFTER I PLAYED THE PIECE,
HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF IN A WONDERULLY MODEST WAY AS THE COMPOSER OF THIS
BEUTIFUL BALLAD.
10) BUSHWICK 2:A.M. WAS INSPIRED BY A CRAZY, SPONTANEOUS PARTY DURING A NIGHT IN
THE LOFT OF THE NEW YORK PHOTOGRAPHER RAFAEL FUCHS.
11) HAFENHUNDE WAS CONCEIVED WHEN ONE NIGHT AT THE PORT OF PIRAEUS I WAS
BARKED AT BY A PACK OF STREET DOGS AFTER I HAD TAKEN A WRONG TURN AND ENDED
UP IN A DARK CUL-DE-SAC.
12) FRAGMENT WAS INSPIRED BY CHARLIE PARKER'S COMPOSITIONS.
13) VOLGA IS A PIECE I COMPOSED YEARS AGO DURING A RUSSIA TOUR ALONG THE RIVER OF
VOLGA.
14) EPILOGUE GENTLY LEADS THE WAY OUT OF THE CD.

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