Artist	Song
Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble (00:00)	Good Morning Dreams, 2002
Martin Siewert / Martin Brandlmayr (06:47)	Is This Love? Too Beautiful To Burn, 2003
Masahiko Okura / Gnnter Mnller / Otomo Yoshihide (12:44)	Tug Masahiko Okura / Gnnter Mnller / Taku Sugimoto / Otomo Yoshihide, Metal Tastes Like Orange, 1999
Polwechsel (15:05)	Core Cut Archives Of The North, 2006
Martin TTtreault / Otomo Yoshihide (19:24)	Duo 4 Studio - Analogique - NumTrique, 2003
Brandlmayr Dafeldecker NTmeth Siewert (23:18)	Part 5 Die InstabilitSt der Symmetrie, 2003
Toshimaru Nakamuro / Sachiko M (29:49)	Do #2 Do, 2001
Keith Rowe / Axel D÷rner / Franz Hautzinger (32:24)	Magenta/Black [excerpt] A View From the Window, 2004
Sachiko M / Gnnter Mnller / Otomo Yoshihide (38:46)	Filament 2-5 Filament 2, 1999
Radian (44:00)	Etage 3 / Flur Rec.Extern, 2002
Axel D÷rner / Kevin Drumm (50:28)	Part One [excerpt] s/t, 2001
Otomo Rowe Sugimoto (58:10)	The Room Ajar, 2002
Trapist (67:33)	Observations Took Place Ballroom, 2004
Sachiko M / Toshimaru Nakamuro / Otomo Yoshihide (72:25)	Good Night [excerpt] Good Morning Good Night, 2004

Comment:

This is essentially a single artist mix, except it spans the works of four separate artists - Martin Brandlmayr, Axel D÷rner, Sachiko M and Otomo Yoshihide. The four of them are scheduled to play a show together in my town later this month, and since sitting at a table in a jazz club all by myself probably isn't so much fun, here's my attempt of convincing a friend that this is not something he's allowed to miss. Of course, this is not supposed to give a thorough overview over the work of any of the four artists (Otomo Yoshihide alone must have about 300 albums that I haven't even heard yet, and yet he's the one who appears here most prominently. And I was shocked to find just how little Axel D÷rner I have in my collection), but rather a quick taste of what these people are up to. I made no effort at all to include particular favourite tracks or excerpts, my only concern was to make the whole thing flow. I thought it'd be a nice touch not to include multiple tracks by the same combination of artists - not too hard to accomplish, considering how prolific these people are and how collaboration-focused the field of electro-acoustic improvisation (or whatever you wanna call it) is. By the way, the three projects that don't mention any of the guys/gal by name (Radian, Polwechsel, Trapist) all involve Martin Brandlmayr.

If you want to give this a listen, click here. It's one continuous mp3-file and it's rather easy to lose track of where you are, so I've added time marks in the tracklist for your orientation. If you've never heard any of these artists, be warned that this is going to be a rather abstract listening experience (don't let the opener fool you). Extended moments of near-silence are entirely intentional.

The title has something to do with Axel D÷rner's peculiar approach to his trumpet (which, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't involve stepping on his instrument, but which does result in a sound that is quite different and rather more abstract from what you probably expect from a trumpet), but more with me being silly.

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