POLWECHSEL

Avant-Garde Jazz / Jazz Related Improv/Composition • Austria
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for about twenty years polwechsel have been operating at the interface between improvised music and contemporary composition. recognised as one of the seminal groups in this area, they started out when a paradigm shift in music was taking place. driven by a small circle of musicians, notably in vienna, berlin and tokyo, this shift introduced profound changes in the development of improvised and experimental music, as the relations between avant-garde, high art, pop and various subcultures of the nineties were re-evaluated. the musicians involved in this transition occasionally drew on modes of playing employed by improvisational collectives of the sixties but also referred to influences from the highly concentrated sound and noise worlds of new music composers while keeping a critical distance to the energy and expressiveness of free improvisation, as well as embracing genres such as rock music, and electronic club culture. in many cases they called into question read more...
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POLWECHSEL Polwechsel album cover 4.50 | 1 ratings
Polwechsel
Avant-Garde Jazz 1995
POLWECHSEL Polwechsel 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Polwechsel 2
Avant-Garde Jazz 1999
POLWECHSEL Polwechsel 3 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Polwechsel 3
Avant-Garde Jazz 2001
POLWECHSEL Polwechsel / Fennesz ‎: Wrapped Islands album cover 5.00 | 1 ratings
Polwechsel / Fennesz ‎: Wrapped Islands
Avant-Garde Jazz 2002
POLWECHSEL Archives Of The North album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Archives Of The North
Avant-Garde Jazz 2006
POLWECHSEL Polwechsel & John Tilbury ‎: Field album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Polwechsel & John Tilbury ‎: Field
Avant-Garde Jazz 2009
POLWECHSEL Traces Of Wood album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Traces Of Wood
Avant-Garde Jazz 2013
POLWECHSEL Untitled (N°7) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Untitled (N°7)
Avant-Garde Jazz 2015
POLWECHSEL Polwechsel & Klaus Lang : Unseen album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Polwechsel & Klaus Lang : Unseen
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2020
POLWECHSEL Polwechsel with Magda Mayas and John Butcher : album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Polwechsel with Magda Mayas and John Butcher :
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2023
POLWECHSEL Embrace 2, Chains and Grain album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Embrace 2, Chains and Grain
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2023
POLWECHSEL Polwechsel with Andrea Neumann - Embrace 3, Magnetron​ : ​Quarz​ - Obsidian album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Polwechsel with Andrea Neumann - Embrace 3, Magnetron​ : ​Quarz​ - Obsidian
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2023

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POLWECHSEL Embrace 4: Orakelst​ü​cke​/​Aquin album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Embrace 4: Orakelst​ü​cke​/​Aquin
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2023

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POLWECHSEL Embrace album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Embrace
Jazz Related Improv/Composition 2023

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