Thursday, March 20, 2008

Schlüssel on Calig






"Schlüssel" is the german word for key. It's the one that unlocks the door.
Another german word for key is "Taste". It's a part of the piano.
There's not much info about Key in the net (my first time using this common phrase), so I'll have to work with whats' given on the backcover. Key consists of 5 very young musicians. My guess is that they all are students at that time. The leading figure seems to be Markus Stockhausen, son of Karl Heinz Stockhausen, and he's 20 years old when recording that particular album. Actually he's the only one of the group I have ever heard about, but as you probably know my knowledge is very limited. The liner notes by Manfred Schoof report about an exciting and interesting young group ..... all compositions were written by members of the group ...... group of great promise....
The only thing I might add is that I like this LP because of the playful variation of styles. Even within the tracks. "Please be good to me" starts off rather powerful switches into funky and slips into a more loveboatish Bob James part.
My favourites are the modal "Birds flying" and the free ballad "Rheda".
It's yours.

Key (1977 Calig)
recorded @ Dierks Sudio Stommeln
Recording Engineer: Justus Liebig

13 comments:

Jazz-Nekko said...

basso:

whoa - are you kidding, the son of Karl Heinz Stockhausen? and with liner notes by Manfred Schoof? from calig?

this looks too intriguing to pass up!

give me some time with this bab before i come back with my impressions, ok?

cheers for the heads up,

jn

PHSStudiosRJ said...

Thsnks you for post.

basso said...

300:2 - I WIN AGAIN!

basso said...

Deleted ! 379:2 This is really a lousy game.....Shameonem!

Anonymous said...

sure would like to see this bad boy up again along with that nice Supraphon piano jazz disc (thought they only did classical?) :(

thanks for the Stanko, saw it at the pit!

basso said...

Hideo,

leave your email. I will mail you a link. No reposts here. Enuff is enuff,
Basso

Anonymous said...

thanks, man

send me an email before you reup, maybe I have a few things you're looking for ...

scamdisc@gmail.com

El Isabelino said...

Would love to hear this 1.If you send me that link to my e-mail it''ll be much appreciated.From sunny P.R.

millobroki@yahoo.com

Strange Fruit said...

Would LOVE this. If you would send a link to me at McKlveen at Gmail dot com I would be indebted.

basso said...

you guys got me.
link is up and running again
yours truly,
Basso

Anonymous said...

thanks for reupping this wonderful rarity!

Kathryn said...

ahh damn would love to hear...
dr.ou818 at gmail

basso said...

hi Kathryn,
there's a link in the post in "it's yours". just click "yours" and you'll be able to download. Hope you enjoy it! Cheers,
Basso