Alloa, by Limpe Fuchs

Alloa

by Limpe Fuchs

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1.	Playpiano 21:43	buy track
2.	Alloa 02:20	buy track
3.	Dialogue 07:22	buy track
4.	Spaziergang 06:21	buy track
5.	Someone 04:44	buy track
6.	Monologue 02:34	buy track

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The composer, percussionist and instrument builder Limpe Fuchs has spent six decades exploring the outer limits of sound and its effects on the listener. Born in Munich in 1941, Fuchs is part of a generation of German artists who sought radical new approaches to art, music and social organisation in the period following the Second World War.

Alloa, Bavarian for alone. Limpe likes to be alone, because she is never lonely. When she is not on concert tours, she cultivates the garden in front of the door or playfully handles her instruments in the house. Among these has recently been a restored concert grand piano, which she found orphaned at a performance venue in Switzerland and rescued from being scrapped in Peterskirchen. Since then it has been the center of Limpe's attention, is played daily, and can be heard on the recordings of this LP.

The music alternates between free improvisation and impromptu compositions, played also around fragmented recited poems. Beyond the boundaries of jazz, art song and classical music lies the freedom Limpe takes at the piano, laughingly commenting on her unorthodox, even carefree way of making music with a quote from Friedrich Gulda: "From seventy on, all pianists are bad."

Well, so what, Limpe is not a pianist anyway, she is much more than that. She is the most vivid proof of a long-lasting, versatile and intrepid musical career, the next chapter of which will also consist of Limpe no longer exclusively traveling through Europe heavily laden with all her self-made instruments, but every now and then light-heartedly from grand piano to grand piano, to then make music for everyone, as always but not necessarily alone.

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released December 1, 2023

Dialogue feat. Pit Holzapfel (Posaune)
Text zu Spaziergang: Georg Trakl
Text zu Someone: Gertrude Stein

Aufnahme: Limpe Fuchs
Master: Zoro Babel
Fotos: Klaus Gstettner, Jacques Foschia
Pressetext: Holger Adam

Fotos Bandcamp: Ole-Kristian Heyer

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