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U2 comeback in Afghanistan


The aircraft type U2, with the exchanged in February 1962 on the Glienicker bridge pilot Francis Gary Powers on 1 May 1960 shot down over the Soviet Union, most recently used in Afghanistan. The New York Times reported in its online edition detail about the new roles of today's crews: aerial reconnaissance to detect missile bases and camps of the Taliban.

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Schorlemmer, Lecture at the Villa Schöningen

The Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung today reported a speech by Rev. Friedrich Schorlemmer at Villa Schöningen. Topic: "The heavy concrete state lie - no one had any intention of building a wall" .

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third Edition "Glienicker Brücke" appeared


In be.bra-Verlag is now the 3rd Edition of the book "The Glienicker bridge - scene of German History" was published. It costs 16.95 € and includes some new photos - including those from the 1980s of the border fortifications on the bridge. The book is available from the publisher or bookstore and online .

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Francesco Cusa band celebrates Skrunch in Dresden a musical rampage

(. Cusa Francesco Photo: Promo / Nanni Angeli)

"Pape Satan, pape Satan alepp," With these words of Pluto in the seventh song "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri. Pluto, a wolf-like creature guards the fourth ring of hell Alighieri'schen to roll wailing in the miser and spendthrift stone burdens.

"Pape Satan, pape Satan alepp," - also with this line overrides the Sicilian jazz drummer and composer Francesco Cusa on the accompanying CD, "You Démon et d'autres questions" (1999) and his band "66six". And the musician writes about the context of this music: "Father Satan, father Satan. The devil first. The devil, of seeping into our dull lives. Queue, insomnia, depressive shoes, headache, occupied toilets. But stories about pirates, sold souls sacred virgins, horrible incest and decimated families. In a word, the daily routine. ... All this translated into music by shaking, collected and served as a small coven. ... Just do not tell me that Edgar Allan Poe, Stanley Kubrick or Grenouille had no pact with the devil. Do not tell me, Nicole Kidman would not be a form of self-horned goat! "
The title of this CD are either named after demons from Christian demonology or persons in which one follows Cusa, temptations and dangers embody. "Abigor" is the Serenade for Nicole Kidman, "Buzzati's Capture "refers to the" occupation "of thought of the once famous Italian journalist, painter, illustrator and stage designer Dino Buzzati by the Catholic Church, other compositions are Stanley Kubrick, the perfume of Grenouille and Edgar Allan Poe dedicated. Still other demons to be addressed with titles, so Halphas, a demon in the form of pigeons, the city ignites and sends people to war.

"Oh, let's not talk about demons, but about the music," Francesco Cusa laughs defensively and mischievous, for these things are just a fun game. And if he is with his mind as the provocative, sarcastic Humor Frank Zappa proves influenced combines the nonsense and sense in itself, so you can feel especially in the musical Zappa's flair: complex rock rhythms, bizarre-acting motifs and themes, built from daring intervallic leaps and strange key signature changes, gnashing his teeth and rough sounding, but liquid plays guitar lines and recordings of mysterious-sounding phone voice and technique of noise.

course, these are only hints - Cusa eigenwertig music, sound, in contrast to the Zappa, completely European. Brilliant brass improvisations play not only an illustrative, but a central role. Above all, the rhythm is on Cusa, the favorite all jazz drum Friends, Southern European-fascinating. Cusa's cunning, but above all its ability to combine this southern Italian-Sicilian ore musicianship of the great Catholic processional "bandas" with modern free-jazz drumming hold everyone in suspense. Everything is in this half-wit to pace - from jam jars to basement club walls of toothbrush cups to breathing patterns.

Over the years, in Cusa's music is a continuity of titles that appear in different versions over again. He played in 1997 with his band 66six the compositions "Where's Stanley Kubrick?", "Buzzati's Capture" but also "psycho Jogging", "Dr. Akagi, "and" nonsense ". All of them were later on concert programs of the different occupied "Skrunch" bands and were included on each CD.

The 2005-he CD "Psicopatologia del serial killer" presents these titles in rough, wild interpretations - and ends with the sound piece "Beyond Gods and Devils ... the day before ..."( East of gods and devils ... ...), the day before that - the patience of the listener over with enervating prolonged silence - to announce a horror seems. Instead

follow but with the CDs "A Sicilian Way of Cooking Mind" (2006, Cusa's project "Naked Musicians") and "L'arte della guerra" (2007, Cusa with Skrunch) two published works under his own name, by the provocative and symbolic way much more in a sophisticated, jazzy direction to go, and - providing improvised soundscapes as well as fragmented and abstracted processional Banda horns, partly linked to mad Latino drum passages - in the case of the "Naked Musicians", the title "A Night in a Caravan" (a combination of "A Night in Tunisia" and "Caravan") has a dazzling charm.

And when the Jazz Club New tonne during the late summer of 2009 was looking for a musician who could develop for the Jazz Festival worlds "fragilitas" 2010, a special music on "rampage" was soon clear: First, to Francesco Cusa be asked.
This concert will take place now - 27 March as the end of 2010 he Jazz Festival worlds. To publish

all his ideas to be able to operate Francesco Cusa the CD label " Improvvisatore Involontario . But it is not only his own but also works from the circle of friendly musicians appeared (Cusa sometimes as a sideman).

Mathias Bäumel

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The Theremin in the pop and jazz history - serves an exotic "sound spice"

(The theremin artist Barbara Buchholz. Photo: PR)

The Theremin in the pop and jazz music? The first to have used the seldom-used original form of electronic musical instruments in the pop field, could not be more Dada-Naive-Desert Blues-Captain Beefheart and the Avant-garde pop-and-surf Kings Beach Boys.

In April 1967, took Beefheart's Magic Band and his then the material for his first official album "Safe as Milk" - as a guest was famous for his recording of the song "Electricity" and "Autumn's Child" The renowned theremin player Samuel Hoffman invited. These two recordings were among the last to Hoffman made - since the early forties, who trained Fußorthopäde and professional violinist was in his bar and entertainment bands, the theremin is popularized, was always to create music and background sounds for horror and sci-fi films have been invited by Hitchcock's "Spellbound" (1945, German title "Spellbound") to William Beaudine "Billy the Kid vs. Dracula" (1966). In particular, the howling, spherical sounds Hoffman contrast to the introductory riff of "Electricity" made this title - of course, in addition to the distinctive, rough vocals Beefheart - an early hallmark of the musician.

previously only slightly in February 1966, the Beach Boys had the instrumental tracks for the song "I Just Was not Made for These Times" (the song was recorded in April) included: the song then appeared in May 1966 the album "Pet Sounds", the eleventh studio album, the High Priest of the surf-pop. On this recording in the studio was the swing trombonist Paul Tanner was involved, which he played the theremin in the advanced Electro-Theremin (with rotary knob for the volume). The overall sound of the songs of this exotic instrument hardly played a role, unlike a few months later appeared Beach Boys single "Good Vibrations". There was Tanner Electro-Theremin hear clearly and counteracted the fresh-awful brash melodic and rhythmic opening sequence of the hit.

As long as these first, rare performances of the theremin in the pop and rock music may well be her - in the jazz tracks can be as good as this instrument does not and can not find such an early stage. This is certainly the fact that the disadvantages of the theremin in jazz particularly serious that it is playable as burdensome and only glissando-like. In any case, similar sounds were available from the end of the sixties synthesizers much easier . Generate

So it is not surprising that the theremin - as exotic and "sound spices" - is not used in contemporary jazz, and even more in the border area between jazz and contemporary concert music, in the swing and bop.

here has distinguished himself above all the Italian multi-instrumentalist Vincenzo Vasi. His contributions in theremin Gianni Gebbias Switters are unmistakable, giving the trio a strong, unmistakable sound, shine with solo performance, achieve an almost typical rock intensity - to explain, but the Vasi feels inspired by Captain Beefheart. Something really special is Vasis Etherguys band, a trio, in There where only three Mini Sten play next Vasi still living in Italy and the Swiss Sabina Meyer also now on the "boots" resident Japanese techno and electronic avant-garde Gak Sato.

By Barbara Buchholz is now one of the most profound theremin players ever comes to Dresden. Together with Lydia Kavina, the grandniece of the inventor, Lev Sergeyevich instrument terms (1896-1993), who called in the west later Leon Theremin, founded Barbara Buchholz 2005, the platform "Touch! Do not Touch! "For the theremin in new music. As a master student of Lydia Kavina she studied in Moscow and is now one of the leading virtuosos in this extraordinary and rare instrument. In the field of jazz and improvised music, she performs in various ensembles, including a trio with Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and Jan Bang live electronics. She toured with the Jazz Big Band Graz as part of the production "Electric Poetry & Lo-Fi Cookies" which was recorded on CD. In performances with her solo program "Theremin: Russia With Love" can help Barbara Buchholz is from the artist Pedda Borowski.

Buchholz played on 26 March 2010 with Pedda Borowski to Jazz Festival worlds Dresden 2010th

Mathias Bäumel

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Gianni Gebbia and Eiko Ishibashi & Lioneiko Joraku enthusiastic than in the "bin" Dresden

(27 February 2010: Gianni Gebbia - alto sax - and Eiko Ishibasi - here on the drums, or even piano, flute and electronics - in the Jazz Club Neue Tonne Dresden. Photo: Wolfgang Zimmermann) Guaranteed

: Would a Maestro Giacomo Puccini in his idyllic villa in Viareggio, on the Mediterranean still active account, he would have Eiko Ishibashi and Gianni Gebbia long since embraced in his orchestra. But Puccini was also known among other things, that he was always eager for new, unusual and hitherto unheard music. And the Japanese-Italian duo - which is sonorous calls "Joraku & Lioneiko" - it would have exactly such a new, unusual and hitherto unheard-of music can provide. Pity, hear the result of such cooperation, certainly a treat for body, soul and ear had been.

speculations of this kind are of course pointless, but the impression that the concert of the Japanese Eiko Ishibashi with the Sicilian Gianni Gebbie 27 February 2010 has left the well-filled jazz club New ton, was anything other than this dainty with the Japanese multi-instrumentalist Eiko Ishibashi blew suddenly very unusual sounds through the sandstone arches. A fragile, very delicate and understated piano playing penetrated into every corner of the vault. And a melody so strange and mysterious as the Far East, most Europeans today still represents floated, in the unhurried pace over the heads of the audience. Eiko Ishibashi even such a fragile creature is translucent, with a solid and deep into the end of a flower adorned felt hat she's sitting on the wing and coaxed him this almost sounds unreal. The pay and nothing of its mysterious aura, as Gianni Gebbias saxophone mixes below.

On the contrary, Gebbia accepts the offer of Eiko Ishibashi willingly and reduces the volume of the usual saxophone several times. And at the end of the game is a common become thoroughly romantic date; a meeting of voice, piano and saxophone. Too beautiful this music seems to sort them at all in the subject of jazz want or need. And it happened exactly, what actually characterizes the Jazz. The vaunted harmony suddenly finds its end and the music now is like a raging orgy. Wild and boisterous shouting loudly the saxophone and is contrary to the piano. And because of the so-gently acting Eiko Ishibashi this contradiction probably still appears too moderate, she suddenly leaves the piano stool, sits down at the drums and thrashing there all their emotions powerfully in the direction of the partner. But it merely a dispute at the level of music and can not ultimately be irreversible, but only work promoting.

Two CD's have the two together now taken already (one of them, with Daniele Camarda, has for some time been published, the second is to follow a couple of weeks) and breadth of the material of these two discs are working the program of the night. These include more visual-audio gadgets. For instance, when Gianni Gebbia a rubber glove stretched over the funnel of his gramophone and get up the five fingers by the intensity of his game and can again coincide. This is something of a standard number of the Sicilian. And she was already in his repertoire when he and a half years ago, a different line in Dresden played.

before Gebbia has a good solid relationship with the Saxon capital, among other things, also based on years of collaboration with jazz drummer Günter "Baby" Sommer. That was when the music for orchestras in Sicily was already past him already and he will strengthen cooperation with the jazz musicians of Europe and also from overseas looking for. When Peter Kowald was alive, connected the two a very close friendship. The dance theater Gianni Gebbia interested in burning, he also worked together during their life with the choreographer Pina Bausch.

Cooperation with Eiko Ishibashi is a next and then some of the other station experimental Sicilian (by the way, two days after the concert - March 1, namely - celebrates his 39th birthday), which arises from his unrelenting curiosity. And its underlying concept also persists even when both one of the rock band Uriah Heep played and later by the Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek edited number to add a completely different and completely new variant. Or if suddenly heard a cheerful and typical Italian folk music. Ultimately, supply Eiko Ishibashi and Gianni Gebbia a most exciting and creative dialogue, and relies their flute and he his saxophone. As this dialogue ends? Of course a draw!

Wolfgang Zimmermann