Mikhail Chekalin/Ulli A. Ruetzel

Mikhail Chekalin - electronics, synthesizer, computer

Ulli A. Rützel - alto saxophone, bagpipe whistle, mouthpipe

Produced by Mikhail Chekalin and Ulli A. Rützel

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Welches Inferno meinen die Musiker?
Das tägliche in der Welt?
Oder steht das Inferno für eine Metapher über die Freiheit des Improvisierens?
Blasen sie es aus oder weg?
Oder blasen sie es ab, weil es nicht stattfindet?
Ist es etwa eine Persiflage auf das glatte Musikbusiness, das beide Musiker aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln kennen?

Der russische Komponist, Pianist, Elektroniker und Maler Mikhail Chekalin (geb. 1959 in Moskau) ist sicherlich einer der einflussreichsten und experimentierfreudigen zeitgenössischen Komponisten Russlands letzten 35 Jahre.
Er und Ulli A. Rützel (1944), ein deutscher Musikproduzent, Musikverleger und Freejazz Pianist der 60iger Jahre, kennen sich seit vielen Jahren. Rützel hat auf seinen Labels Erdenklang und CCn’C Musik von Chekalin veröffentlicht.

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M. Chekalin about „Return Of The Inferno” - nur engl. Version momentan verfügbar
I conceived the idea of creating this composition spontaneously, but not accidentally, as we, Ulli and I, know each other from as far back as the early ‘90s. The Inferno imagery reminds me of an avant-garde playfully contraversial use of symbols; their negation of negation, as is the case with the personage of Lucifer, f.e. ...which brings to my mind encounters and discussions with Karlheinz Schtokhausen in 1990; my acquaintance with him served, of itself, as a kind of symbol, a passing-on the baton of epoch-making music paradigms...

Still another meaningful encounter occured in the ’90, that with Frank Zappa, this present work might be doing homage partly to him. It was exactly at that fateful point in history, early ’90s, which turned out more of a bang, less of a romance – that we made friends with Ulli.
It was Ulli who came up with the title; his point seems beyond controversy to me and rather the provocation to sheer delight. For, in the best possible way, it invokes or reveals an infernal contradictiousness of a hell of a time in which we live; also a radical and protestant air, once a must in a work of music, that has sunk into oblivion by now. Here it has found its realization, pulling together those three aspects, composition, improvisation and mixing.
Perhaps a steady reaching for an exit out of Inferno which continues to exist is the basic essential of music for me. Freedom to pose questions rhymes for me with the problem of our times, as John Fawles puts it, individual freedom against an enforced conformism.
(M. Chekalin)

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Hier die bei uns bisher erschienenen CDs
LAST SEASONS – CCn’C 01612 (Zeitgenössische Musik)

NIGHT PULSATION – Erdenklang 30632 (Elektronische Musik)

LOOKING EAST, ELECTRONIC EAST - ESTONIA & RUSSIA
Erdenklang 29612 (Compilation Elektronische Musik)