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Best Before as LP (Art. CW 1016)

Sometimes with a hint of scorn. But it’s only poetical, political reflection on an incomplete
world, the only one we know. Beauty and cruelty, joy and grief. The piano, knowing every
language, answers to the fervent voice of the singer: Rhaeto-Romanic, German, English,
French. Mawkish, severe, hard, enthralling, playful. 
  
► Corina Curschellas, voice, dulcimer, kalimba, accordion, flute, zither, drums
► JohnWolf Brennan, piano, synthesizer, invisible strings
 
Total time: 72’55”

€ 15.00

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Cadavre Exquis as LP (Art. 1014LP)

A road movie. Programmatic titles. Inspiring music. Gripping arrangements. Magic walks with
Creative Works. Composed and arranged by (trum) Peter Schaerli. Not even Swiss chocolate
cream can compete with his carry away music. 
  
► Ian Gordon-Lennox, trumpet, flugelhorn
► Tom Varner, french horn
► Roland Dahinden, trombone
► Dave Taylor, bass trombone
► Urs Blöchlinger, compositions, alto, soprano & bass sax, bass clarinet
► Christoph Baumann, compositions, piano
► Hämi Hämmerli, bass
► Dieter Ulrich, drums
 
Total time: 62’10”

€ 15.00

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Grand Bazar as LP (Art. CW 1012LP)

Neither folklore nor ethnic music. It’s a heated encounter. West-east fire works. Genuine world music. Without tonic water. No quotation marks. No fusion hype. Switzerland encounters Turkey. The energy of percussion pulls the Orientsaxpress. Wild and waste like the world. ”Wind, now beat the boughs and twigs.”

► Werner Lüdi, alto sax Burhan Öçal, darbuka, dawul, percussion

Total time: 40’57”

€ 15.00

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Basse-Partout as LP (Art. CW 1011)

Only one. One bass alone. Koch’s first solo performance on record. Basic bass. Restless bassfingers. Full mouth swing. Excursions into free jazz provinces. Frontier crossing into creativity. Improvisations. Pizzicato and conarco. String beats. Screaming. Powerful. Like it or leave it.

► Klaus Koch, double bass

Total time: 39’47”

€ 15.00

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Marilyn / The Whal as LP (Art. CW 1010)

Whom the gods love... Requiem for Marilyn Monroe. Her last hours. Narrated and impersonated by singer Lauren Newton. A heartfelt portrait painted in colors of ice. About sex and the greed to become famous and beloved. A small opera. The Lake Constance-Symphony Orchestra joined by a jazz band.

► Bernd Konrad, reeds
► Bodensee Symphony Orchestra & Jazz Ensemble
► Erwin Lehn & his Orchestra
► Laren Newton, voice

Total time: 42'37"

€ 15.00

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Seredipity as LP (Art. CW 1009)

SUNNYMOON
Improvised music, what else. Lüdi is the red rooster crowing and croaking “Good morning” on
the St Gotthardt of his gritty-nitty, earthy-dirty alto sound. Creative Works’ 1st record of a
local Swiss artist. Neither cheese nor a gentle breeze – but a forceful tempest. We long to
hear the story of your life, which must take the ear strangely. Will you deliver all? Yes, he will. 
  
► Werner Lüdi, alto sax
► Hans Koch, tenor & soprano sax
► Stephan Wittwer, electric guitar
► Martin Schütz, bass, cello
► Dieter Ulrich, drums, bugle
 
Total time: 33’50”

€ 15.00

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Plan Eden as LP (Art. CW 1008)

A new blueprint for a reissue of paradise lost. Imaginary landscapes painted in bright colours.
The new aesthetics of the saxes described in full. Gabriel-Allfreed, blow your horn! 12 solo
exercises: 1 for each hour of the day or each month of the year. Playdoyers for another earth
and a new heaven. On the other pieces Alfred is joined by fellow travellers like Lindsay
Cooper and John Zorn. 
  
► Alfred 23 Harth, reeds
► Lindsay Cooper, reeds
► John Zorn, reeds
 
Total time: 31’10”

€ 15.00

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Gestalt Et Jiva as LP (Art. CW 1006/7LP)

About the real and the unreal. A radical musical mess to end all masses. A jumble of tumbling sounds. Dances on a rubbish-heap. Strip tease of the soul. Garbage can blues and songs about everyday catastrophies. Sound ejaculations explode into stars. New mornings and half forgotten nightmares. Subversive beat at its best.

► Alfred 23 Harth, reeds
► Ferdinand Richard, alto & six string bass
► Peter Hollinger, drums and objects
 
Total time: 62'28”

€ 15.00

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Anything Goes as LP (Art. CW 1005)

Original material by Heiner Goebbels, John Oswald, John Zorn.
”Sire!” Where from and where to? Swaying, staggering. Blind man’s buff along the edge of the
precipice. Freestyle collage from the works of three composers. Receding, storming forward,
overrun. Diabolical. Electro-acoustic sound environments created from the simultaneity of the
non-simultaneous. Broken promises. Confusing messages. From outer space? Cacophonic art
brut, manic, unrestrained, cold and calculating. 
  
► Alfred 23 Harth
 
Total time: 39’28”

€ 15.00

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Red Art as LP (Art. CW 1004)

Spirits dance in the white light of the floodlights. Announced by bursts of a fanfare.
Constant. Powerful, punky shrieks. Lively, menacing avant-garde pop. Sadness and pain.
Nothing stays the same. Nothing is as it seems. So much love of life – yet obstacles pile
up. The tenor rebels against the daily grind. Laughter sticks in the throat. 
  
► Alfred 23 Harth, saxophones, voices
► Mani Neumeier, drums, percussions 
 
Total time: 36’20”

€ 15.00

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Sali as LP (Art. CW 1003)

A voyage in. A journey out. An intimate dialogue. From microcosm to macrocosm and
back. And the angels sing in Chinatown. No idea of any time-lag or hangover. Exciting
and breathtaking duo-flights. Galaxies amplify and expand the organic growth of the
reeds. Monk is meditating while Messiaen records another strange bird’s call. 
  
► Paul Schwarz, organ
► Bernd Konrad, reeds
 
Total time: 44’38”

€ 15.00

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Good Night as LP (Art. CW 1002)

... could also be a queer-looking bird. Or a coquettish dance for three – a waltz lasting
five bars. Cool and swinging, a lazy Sunday afternoon. Listless, no direction, a little
annoyed about one’s own idleness. Who is Seamus Heaney? Nothing happens without a
reason. Literature is the driving force, transforming even the neatest triad into frosty
uncertainty. Twittering, squabbling, the bird as a messenger from yonder? 
  
► TRIO KOKOKO
► Klaus Koch, double bass
► Franz Koglmann, flugelhorn, trumpet
► Eckard Koltermann, bass clarinet, baritone sax
 
Total time: 41’20”

€ 15.00

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Recollections (Art. CW 1001)

Clear, light and transparent. Beautifully formed melodies, each note is a promise fulfilled.
Pride and self-confidence. A collection of warm, sparkling gems, ranging from
Cootie Williams’ personal musical history to the refreshing smell of Coltrane’s rain. A
stroke of luck for jazz. Singing the blues straight from a big, open heart. 
  
► Marion Brown, alto sax 
 
Total time: 51’39”

€ 15.00

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