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Urs Blöchlinger
John Wolf Brennan
Marion Brown
Corin Curschellas
Christy Doran
Alfred 23 Harth
Georg Hofmann
Klaus Koch
Franz Koglmann
Bernd Konrad
Urs Leimgruber
Werner Lüdi
Motus Quartett
Lucas Niggli
Evan Parker
Mathias Rissi
Ned Rothenberg
Peter Schärli
Peter A. Schmid
René Wohlhauser

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Acoustic Isles (Art. CW 1049/50)

“Acoustic Isles” is the peak of Doran’s work on acoustic
guitar, which started with “Harsh Romantics” (1982/
Synton), “The Returning Dream of the Leaving Ship”
(1986), and continued with “Phoenix” (1990/Hat Art) and
“What a Band” (1992). Former were quoted as “Portrait
of the artist as a young man”; “Acoustic Isles” is a “Portrait
of the artist as a mature adult”... But again, it is the beginning of a collaboration between
Christy Doran and Susanne Dubs (visuals), called “lucid & obscure”.

► Christy Doran, acoustic guitar solo
► Susanne Dubs, visuals

Total time: 46’17”

€ 25.00

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El Niño (Art. CW 1048)

Here are three soloists, each coming from a unique standpoint, dipping from their disparate
backgrounds, feeling their way forward, seeking common ground – but never giving in.

► Ned Rothenberg, alto saxophone, Bb & bass clarinet, shakuhachi
► Peter A. Schmid, Eb, bass & contrabass clarinet, subcontrabass saxophone (Bb tubax)
► Matthias Ziegler, C flute, bass & contrabass flute, Matusi & quarter tone flute

Total time: 56’00”

€ 18.00

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Pipelines (Art. CW 1043)

LIVE AT LUCERNE FESTIVAL, SOMMER 2001
Space – Time – Soundscapes. Trumpet, tuba and the organ in Jean Nouvel’s KKL. Breath lines
and sound tracks, over- and undertones. Pulsating triologues, contrapuntal, mysteriously playful,
accentuated in polytonal ways.

► Hans Kennel, trumpet, alphorn, Büchel
► Marc Unternährer, tuba
► John Wolf Brennan, organ

Total time: 49’07”

€ 18.00

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En Passant (Art. CW 1042

While "passing through" from Italy to Hamburg, Ned Rothenberg decided to make a stop over in Switzerland for the first musical rendezvous with Peter A. Schmid in a studio: a free dialogue, unrehearsed, without prior consultation, a discussion between two unconventional musicians, who are sure to meet up again for more duos in the future...

► Peter A. Schmid, bass & contrabass clarinets, tubax, taragot
► Ned Rothenberg, clarinet & bass clarinet, alto saxophone, shakuhachi

Total time: 50:62”

€ 18.00

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Windscapes (Art. CW 1040)

New Compositions and instant soundscapes for one or more uncommon wind instruments. Windloops. Brief motifs of differing lengths are – repeated unchanged – layered over each other. A macroscopically homogenous sound texture arises, whose microstructures are nevertheless constantly changing.
Slapsticks. The woodwind player as percussionist. Tones like waterdrops. Dance of the insects. Glassbeadplay? Sparkling garlands of sound, or exploding champagne corks... Taragotics & Taraphonics. Music for tarogato.
Soprillax & Tubarillo. Mouse and elephant(s). The smallest saxophone Soprillo, meets the biggest
Tubax.
Clari.net. Spontaneous clarinet inventions.

► Peter A. Schmid tubax, soprillo, taragot, bass & contrabass clarinet, Eb clarinet

Total time: 64'26”

€ 18.00

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September Winds (Art. CW 1038/39)

An empty water reservoir on the Zurichberg... built in 1922 and standing empty for nearly
thirty years. The acoustics are unique, perfectly unbalanced and heterogeneous: ideal conditions
for improvising musicians! Producing tones, hearing and feeling their vibrations
and perceiving their multi-facetted transformations in the space. Waiting. Reacting – or letting
the sounds die away.

► Hans Anliker, trombone
► Evan Parker, soprano & tenor saxophone
► Peter A. Schmid, Eb clarinet, bass & contrabass clarinet, sopranino saxophone, wooden flute
► Reto Senn, clarinet, bass clarinet, taragot
► Jürg Solothurnmann, alto & soprano saxophone

Total time: 64'04” / 59'14"

€ 25.00

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Flügel (Solo Piano) (Art. CW 1037)

Brennan’s fifth solo piano album and the pivot of “the trilogy of the trilogies” spans a bold
arc: duets (interplaying with himself), paraph(r)ases on Steve Reich and Annette Peacock, dialogues
with an oldtimer manure pump and a robot, Monk in Cage, Kyoto, meditations on two
medieval songs. In the end, all 18 pieces are deconstructed and reassembled to form an index
in retrograde: back to the future!

► John Wolf Brennan, piano

Total time: 64’25”

€ 18.00

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8 Pieces on Paul Klee (Art. CW 1035)

GROUPE LACROIX
The Swiss composer group’s second album (see also CW 1030) is inspired by the paintings of
Paul Klee (1879–1940).

► Thüring Bräm: Possessed Girl (Besessenes Mädchen)
► Michael Schneider: Shark Turtle Ray
► Marianne Schroeder: How Klee became a quadruple Phyllum
► John Wolf Brennan: N-gl (after “Angel, still groping”, 1939)
► Christian Henking: Sillis
► Alfons Karl Zwicker: Grieving (Trauernd)
► Michael Radanovics: Entweihte Sphinx, Die Sphinx geht
► Jean-Luc Darbellay: So to speak (Sozusagen)
► ENSEMBLE SORTISATIO LEIPZIG:
► Walter Klingner, oboe, English horn
► Axel Andrae, bassoon
► Matthias Sannemüller, viola
► Thomas Blumenthal, guitar

€ 18.00

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Duets, Dialogues & Duels (Art. CW 1034)

Swiss bass clarinet player Peter A. Schmid in three duos with different concepts and instrumentation:
“Alpine Dialogue“ (with Roland Schiltknecht Swiss hammered dulcimer & bass
dulcimer). “Buschwerk“ (with Dominik Burger vibes & drums). “Zendances“ (with Pit Gutmann
marimba & sound objects).

► PETER A. SCHMID, bass clarinet
► Roland Schiltknecht, Swiss hammered dulcimer
► Dominik Burger, vibraphone, drums
► Pit Gutmann, marimba

€ 18.00

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Vollmond (Art. CW 1033)

Profound sounds in an empty reservoir. Live recordings during concerts in an empty reservoir
on a hill in Zürich. This room once held nearly two thousand cubic meters of water – now the
tones expand like ripples on the surface of a pool, overlapping, intermingling. This is primordial
ambient, hypnotic, hallucinogenic. We lie down, we close our eyes. We drift away.

► Peter A. Schmid, bass clarinet, saxophone, flutes
► Jürg Grau, trumpet
► Philipp Zehnder, percussion

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The Well-Prepared Clavier (Art. CW 1032)

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The Well-Prepared Clavier (Art. CW 1032)

WB’s new cycle of solos. The Yellow Trilogy: Volume one. Discoveries and dedications. The
beauty of noisy Russian doors. Ir(r)itations and mysteries. Ten well-prepared fingers. Two
hands. Seven studies. One prepared piano. From prelude to postlude. A piano duet with
Marianne Schroeder in Moscow. And much more ”live” from London. Wow!

► John Wolf Brennan

Total time: 74’33”

€ 18.00

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Spogology (Art. CW 1031)

Quartet: the classical jazz format. Two mouth players. Plus bass and drums. Timeless.
Recollections crossway jazz history. From Mulligan Square to Coleman Blvd. Swiss blue combined
with Afro Blue makes Oriental Blue. Ding dung jam. Swing it, man! The more you listen
the better it sounds.

► Peter Böhringer, trumpet, melophone
► Peter A. Schmid, bass clarinet, soprano & baritone saxophone
► Werner Broger, bass
► Dominik Burger, drums, vibraphone

Total time: 57’07”

€ 18.00

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Groupe Lacroix (Art. CW 1030)

GROUPE LACROIX
THE COMPOSER GROUP
Suspended lines and rhythmic vigour. Dramatic moments and meditative comtemplation.
Enigmatic sounds in contemporary musical fables. Six pieces by the composers Jean-Luc
Darbellay, Marianne Schroeder, Christian Henking, John Wolf Brennan, Michael Schneider
and Michael Baumgartner for violin, violoncello and piano. Concluded with an epilogue by
the Russian maestro Edison Denissov. Enthralling interpretation by the excellent Moscow
Rachmaninov Trio.

► Groupe Lacoix
► Moscow Rachmaninov Trio:
► Mikhail Tsinman, violin
► Natalia Savinova, violincello
► Viktor Yampolsky, piano

Total time: 70’20”

€ 18.00

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Fuego (Art. CW 1029)

The saxophone screams with pleasure as the drumsticks pound. Or is it grim determination to
stick to fugue + ego? Dynamism gets the worst of free improvisation. Musical immoralists cunningly
squeeze themselves through the cracks in the walls and escape to multifarious freedom.
Monk blue Monk is pure delight.

► Mathias Rissi, alto-, tenor sax
► Guerino Mazzola, grand piano
► Heinz Geisser, percussion

Total time: 64’41”

€ 18.00

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Yavapai (Art. CW 1028)

Q4O – 6 years after Cairo. Using expanded rules: The ”works” continue. Nothing artificial.
Nothing polished with emery. The deconstruction of the big band concept and its reconstructing
at the same time. Chorusses transcend the borders of time. A new millennium a
coming. QED.

► Q4 ORCHESTRA
► Mathias Rissi

Total time: 52’45”

€ 18.00

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Windschief (Art. CW 1027)

Music on cat paws. Piano/reeds. A fresh breeze. From wind force 0 to 6 on the Beaufort scale.
Landscapes in the mist. Smoke trails and rustling leaves. Timbuctu revisited. Creative music for
re-creation. Chamber improvisations. A real cat’s meow.

► Roger Girod, piano
► Peter A. Schmid, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, alto flute, wooden flute

Total time: 58’53”

€ 18.00

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In Statu Mutandi (Art. CW 1026)

A selection of works from 1978–1993.
Nuts and bolts of a composer. A portrait. From clarinet solo to orchestra tutti. Outstanding
performers. Clarinet trio. Pieces for piano and organ. Trio for drums. Adagio – play the
strings, Arditti! Actual music, serious, manifolded, colorful. Squirrel, get the nuts.

► René Wohlhauser

Total time: 71’34”

€ 18.00

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Text, Context, Co-Text & Co-Ci-Text (Art. CW 1025)

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Text, Context, Co-Text & Co-Ci-Text (Art. CW 1025)

WB’s third piano album. The blue trilogy accom-plished. All stars scent of flowers. To plant a
fig tree? A magnolia? A rose garden? Whither leads the path of remembrance. No comments.
Tracking down the sources. Roots and DNA-prints. Keep the face/faith. Be true.

► John Wolf Brennan, piano

Total time: 64’16”

€ 18.00

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Atonall (Art. CW 1024)

Metal scrapes over metal. Wood on wood. Air vibrates, waves of sound flow in all directions.
Coming from deep down, caressing the ear, irritating and moving. Interwoven sounds, the
finest spun threads form structured miniatures. Sculptured objects awaken dormant memories
of past echos in space, broadening the horizon of the future.

► Roger Girod, piano, Klangflügel, Klangobjekte
► Pit Gutmann, drums & Klangobjekte, Klangschalen
► Peter A. Schmid, bass clarinet, soprano-, alto- & baritone sax, bamboo flute
► Martin Spühler, Klangsäulen, Klangschalen

Total time: 59’02”

€ 18.00

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Crimson Flames (Art. CW 1023)

Motus. My toes, your toes. Uplift and uproar. Walk and talk. Dance and trance. Q. and A.
Passion-beat. Ellington. Mingus. Zappa. Backwards, forwards, singing, stringing, swinging,
criss cross – a real earmass. Radanovics’ string quartet no. 2 – a successful musical coup. A
unique melange. No more room in Vienna. Mottoes.

► Tscho Theissing, violin
► Michael Radanovics, violin
►Franz Bayer, viola
► Michael Dallinger, violoncello

Total time: 58’19”

€ 18.00

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Mute Songs & Drumscapes (Art. CW 1022)

Mountain streams, driving cows up to the alpine pastures, Fasching and processions. The Alpine
Republic is full of percussive, communicative sounds. Partly forgotten or long drowned by
other tone empires. Some are still alive today. All are echoed in the bustling and poetical
soundscapes in Switzerland. Even Africa, India and jazz, jazz, jazz!

► Georg Hofmann, percussion
► Lucas Niggli, percussion

Total time: 42’30”

€ 18.00

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Iritations (Art. CW 1021)

W.B.’s second piano album. Ears wide open! Relations and resolutions. Through the archipelago
of the sunken letters. Hidden treasures. Weird sounds. Answers of the riddle and an unforgettable
musical cruise. Bye bye, past. Memory, hallo! Alpha – back into the heart of darkness.
Archaeology of the Now. Let’s dig it. Double entendre.

► John Wolf Brennan, piano

Total time: 75’00”

€ 18.00

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Willisau Live and More (Art. CW 1020)

n amazing sampler! For single ears and ear couples. A cross section for those, who never
heard of the ”Works”. Additional bonus tracks featuring an electrifying quarter hour with the
Creative Works Orchestra live at Willisau (Willy the Pig) – for the first time ever on CD. Yours
sincerely, CW.

► CREATIVE WORKS ORCHESTRA
► Lindsay Cooper, Corina Curschellas, Steve Argüelles,
► John Wolf Brennan, Thomas Dürst, Glenn Ferris, David Gattiker,
► Steve Goodman, Alfred 23 Harth, Marco Käppeli, Klaus Koch,
► Eckard Koltermann, Franz Koglmann, Bernd Konrad, Lars Lindvall,
► Werner Lüdi, Giancarlo Nicolai, Burhan Oçal, Daniele Patumi,
► Roland Philipp, Wolfgang Puschnig, Peter Schärli, John Zorn.

Total time: 71’25”

€ 18.00

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The Bird Who Makes The Cloud Sing As He Drums It (Art. CW 1019)

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The Bird Who Makes The Cloud Sing As He Drums It (Art. CW 1019)

Montreux live. The mastery of improvisation. A two headed eagle. A fantastic duo playing
sharks and larks. Exemplary lesson in intensity and gravitation. Callistenics in the open fields.
Flow motion. Risky wire walks. Neck breaking dialogues. All the rivers flow.

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

Total time: 40’40”

€ 18.00

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Q4 Orchester Projekt (Art. CW 1018)

Thunderstruck. Structure in chaos. Acoustic waves intensified, exploding in a wild spray of
sounds. Polyphonic wind instruments unite, break away into individual tones, duets and heartwarming
solos. Not to be ignored: the mourning of Jimmy Lyons, to whom this orchestral song
of praise in classic sonata form is dedicated.

Q4 ORCHESTER PROJEKT
► Jürg Grau, trumpet
► Peter Böhringer, trumpet
► Hans Anliker, trombone
► Werner Lüdi, alto sax
► Kurt Gräminger, alto sax
► Joseph Poffet, alto sax, bass clarinet
► Heiri Baumgartner, alto sax, baritone sax
► Peter Schmid, bass clarinet, baritone sax, soprano sax
► Markus Stauss, baritone sax, tenor sax
► Guerino Mazzola, piano
► Werner Broger, bass
► Tomi Hirt, bass
► Dani Schaffner, drums & percussion
► Pit Gutmann, drums & percussion
► Philipp Zehnder, percussion
► Mathias Rissi, tenor sax, alto sax, concept & coordination

Total time: 66’21”

€ 18.00

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The Beauty Of Fractals (Art. CW 1017)

WB’s first solo piano album. Open your third ear! Brainnan waves and Wolf’s wistles. Tatoo of
an American residence. The wings of butterflies send greetings from Beijing. Fractal views out
of the present future. The roaring sound of wheels on the tracks. Forests join in.
A double boiler.

► John Wolf Brennan, piano

Total time: 74’56”

€ 18.00

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Best Before (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”

€ 18.00

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Cadavre ExQuis (Art. CW 1014)

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”

€ 18.00

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Entupadas (Art. CW 1013)

€ 18.00

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Grand Bazar (Art. CW 1012)

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”

€ 18.00

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Marilyn / The Whal (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"

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Gersau (Art. CW1053)

€ 18.00

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Monogramme (Art. CW 1052)

€ 18.00

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Niederländische Sprichwörter (Art. CW1051)

€ 18.00

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Acoustic Isles (Art. CW 1049/50)

€ 25.00

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El Niño (Art. CW 1048)

€ 18.00

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I.N.I.T.I.A.L.S. (Art. CW 1046/47)

€ 25.00

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Songbook (Art. CW 1045)

€ 18.00

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La Fourmi (Art. CW 1044)

€ 18.00

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Pipelines (Art. CW 1043)

€ 18.00

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En Passant (Art. CW 1042

€ 18.00

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Schmilz (Art. CW 1041)

€ 18.00

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Windscapes (Art. CW 1040)

€ 18.00

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September Winds (Art. CW 1038/39)

€ 25.00

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Flügel (Solo Piano) (Art. CW 1037)

€ 18.00

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September Duos (Art. CW 1036)

€ 18.00

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8 Pieces on Paul Klee (Art. CW 1035)

€ 18.00

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Duets, Dialogues & Duels (Art. CW 1034)

€ 18.00

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Vollmond (Art. CW 1033)

€ 18.00

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The Well-Prepared Clavier (Art. CW 1032)

€ 18.00

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Spogology (Art. CW 1031)

€ 18.00

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Groupe Lacroix (Art. CW 1030)

€ 18.00

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Fuego (Art. CW 1029)

€ 18.00

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Yavapai (Art. CW 1028)

€ 18.00

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Windschief (Art. CW 1027)

€ 18.00

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In Statu Mutandi (Art. CW 1026)

€ 18.00

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Text, Context, Co-Text & Co-Ci-Text (Art. CW 1025)

€ 18.00

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Atonall (Art. CW 1024)