Bergisch-Brandenburgisches-Quartett 
Live 82

BBQ PART I + II

Rüdiger Carl
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky
Hans Reichel
Sven-Åke Johansson

Rüdiger Carl
tenor saxophone, accordion, clarinet, cuica
Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky
alto sax, baritone sax, ratchet, harmonica, clarinet
Hans Reichel
violin, cigar box, guitar
Sven-Åke Johansson
wrapper (Schlagtuch) muffled drums, accordion, vocals, shoe stretcher, telephone books, band iron, drums

recorded in 1982 at moers festival, germany
liner notes by Francis Plagne
design by Lasse Marhaugh
front cover letters by Hans Reichel

..."The music of the BBQ, though equally distant from modernist strictures, is a very different beast from the Night and Day quartet, or, indeed, from contemporaneous experiments in real-time collage like John Zorn’s Cobra. In some ways, the approach is also quite distinct from the jarringly abrupt use of genre signifiers that the Dutch ICP musicians had been dropping into free improvisations to hilarious effect since the 1960s. Johansson has described the BBQ as ‘free postmodernism’, and both parts of the equation deserve equal emphasis: postmodern in its refusal to distinguish high from low, ‘radical’ from ‘traditional’, the BBQ remained utterly committed to the idea of free improvisation as—to quote some words spoken by Carl in a later interview—‘allowing in situ almost any spontaneous decision’. Rather than disrupting the freely improvised flow with musical found objects, the referential elements in a BBQ performance (fragments of marching tunes, folk melodies, traces of straighter jazz) are part of the very fabric of the music, appearing to arise almost automatically from the players’ muscle memories and rich musical pasts."...
Francis Plagne (ecerpt)

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