Le Bal

anybody remember this cut from the old EMI Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones comp CD?
listened to it for the first time in many years by accident yesterday, and was totally off my ass times ten!!!!
imagine a barbershop Quartet from planet Z thirteeneleven joined by a chorus of McKenna' self-transforming machine elves singing the national anthem of god-only-knows-where in some super formant enriched vowel language
i've heard a lot of Reichel's Daxophone, including his whole "opera", but this cut..........good god, it should've won the nobel prize or something for twisted genius in the comedic mind-expanding category.
The pitch control over a stick of wood stuck off the end of a sawhorse is just.........baaaaah, baffling
i'm awed and triple awed and all that and then some
check it if you can find it

Hans Reichel has only gotten better at playing his daxophone. I am an adamant fan of his newest (though quite old) CD, Yuxo. He's gotten more accurate, and he also began making 'fake but accurate' melodies by recording each note of a melody out of time, then piecing it together. Might one call it "sampling on demand"? Not a systems microtonalist (now what do I mean by that?), aside from blues tendencies.

His website has always been ridiculously fun & incorporates his wide-ranging other interests --> http://daxo.de/

yeah, that site is just nuts!anyway, if you're patient enough and/or lucky enough, you can catch the whole Le Bal here:
http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/Hans%2BRe.../similarartists
excerpts, while wonderful enough, really do it no justice,and i've never played it for anyone who didn't think there weren't voices of somesort involved

it's funny, reichel is so unassuming--and kind of reflexively relegated by association to being a standard-issue, card carrying free-improviser--that i think a lot of people might not realize the extent of this guys imagination and his control over organizing and presenting its contents

he's really an island to himself, with a singular way of acquiescing the inner-artisan and the inner-artist

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "Jacob" <udderbot@...> wrote:
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> Hans Reichel has only gotten better at playing his daxophone. I am an adamant fan of his newest (though quite old) CD, Yuxo. He's gotten more accurate, and he also began making 'fake but accurate' melodies by recording each note of a melody out of time, then piecing it together. Might one call it "sampling on demand"? Not a systems microtonalist (now what do I mean by that?), aside from blues tendencies.
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> His website has always been ridiculously fun & incorporates his wide-ranging other interests --> http://daxo.de/
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