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King Übü Örchestrü

The Concert: Live at Total Music Meeting 2003

(a/l/l/, 009) (Germany) (CD)

  1. Intro Urs Jaeggi (6:06)
  2. The Concert (44:32)
  3. Warming Up 1 (5:39)
  4. Warming Up 2 (11:58)

All music by Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter van Bergen, Radu Malfatti, Melvyn Poore, Phil Wachsmann, Anne LeBaron, Bertram Turetzky, Fernando Grillo, Paul Lytton, Irena Bart-Greiner, Phil Minton, and Boris Aljinovic

King Übü Örchestrü
Wolfgang Fuchs: contrabass clarinet, bass clarinet, sopranino sax
Peter van Bergen: tenor sax
Radu Malfatti: trombone
Melvyn Poore: tuba
Phil Wachsmann: violin, live electronics
Anne LeBaron: harp
Bertram Turetzky: double bass
Fernando Grillo: double bass
Paul Lytton: percussion, live electronics

Guest vocalists
Boris Aljinovic: actor/speaker
Phil Minton: voice
Irena Bart-Greiner: soprano

Produced by Helma Schleif, John Rottiers, Peter van Bergen, Phil Wachsmann, Melvyn Poore, and Wolfgang Fuchs
Recorded live by Hrólfur Vagnsson at the Total Music Meeting in Berlin, November 7-8, 2003
Mixed and mastered by Hrólfur Vagnsson and Wolfgang Fuchs
Includes a 20-page booklet with liner notes by Wolfgang Fuchs (in German and English/English translation by Werner Merz); Urs Jaeggi (in English/translated by Melvyn Poore); Anne LeBaron, Phil Minton, Bertram Turetzky, Melvyn Poore, John Rottiers, Nick Wadley (in English); Radu Malfatti (in German); and Werner Merz (in German and English). The booklet also includes drawings by Franciszka Themerson.

Released in November 2004