LONDON DUOS & TRIOS

ITHACA

FREE MANDELA

HEXENSABBAT

QATTARA

TWELVE TONE TALES 2

INSCAPE: TABLEAUX

STUDIO LIVE BIRDS BLADES

LUCAS ZOOM SWEAT

FLY FLY FLY

LIVE AT THE RHINEFALLS

MANY & ONE DIRECTION

GAMES IMPROVISATION

LAVIN

TO WHOM MAY CONCERN

HEXENTRIO

Cosa Brava is about storytelling. I don't think about it too much. It just turned out that way. Some of the stories have words and some don't, but they share a sense of scenes glimpsed in passing. Torn photos, fragments of movies, distant shouts. One of my earliest memories is of a long drive north, as our family moved away from London to start a new life in the Yorkshire dales. I remember the smell of the car, and passing our broken down removals lorry in the middle of night. I was four years old, and sometimes it feels like I've been on the road ever since. I need to travel, and now my life depends on it, so there's never a shortage of stories. The musicians of Cosa Brava are fellow nomads and experienced collaborators, and some of the best storytellers around, so my stories also become their stories. It's been an exhilarating journey, and I still have no idea where we're going. In the end it doesn't seem very important.- Fred Frith, from the liner notes. All songs composed by Fred Firth and arranged by Cosa Brava. Recorded by the Norman Conquest at Chateau de Faverolles, France. Fred Frith guitar, bass, voice, Carla Kihlstedt violin, bass harmonica, voice, Zeena Parkins accordion, keyboards, foley objects, voice, Shahzad Ismaily bass, voice, Matthias Bossi drums, percussion, mayhem, voice, The Norman Conquest sound manipulation, Special guests: Michael Elrod tambura, William Winant concert bass drum, crotales.

WALKING STUMBLING SLEEP

The band is cult. This band wrote history from 1972 to 1982 combining the energy of rock music with the power of free improvisation. With enormous vitality they bring together the experiences of a young generation electrified by Jimi Hendrix, fascinated by John Coltrane and inspired by free jazz. OM brought rock music into spontaneous musical processes with uncertain endings. After a long break from touring, the band returned in 2008 with a brilliant concert at the Willisau Jazz Festival, with highly explosive freely improvised music. Now the journey goes on as OM reinvents itself. At small live concerts in Lucerne the band creates and forges new concepts and themes. The new album "It's about Time" presents pieces that were developed from concepts, improvisations and compositions by the four musicians. Everything is there: the energy, the power, the radicality, the freedom, the form. Delivered with the passion, the skill and the experience of an entire lifetime of the four musicians. "ElectroAcoustiCore" is what the band calls their sound.

SCHWEIZERSOMMER

PORTRAIT

DOUBLE TROUBLE

LES DIABOLIQUES

STRINGS

TO FLY TO STEAL