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Austrian guitarist
Burkhard Stangl, a co-founder of the jazz ensemble Ton Art in 1985 and of the avantgarde chamber ensemble Maxixe in 1991,
and a member of the improvisation ensemble
Polwechsel with
cellist Michael Moser, bassist Werner Dafeldecker and trombonist Radu Malfatti that released
Polwechsel (september 1994 - Hat Hut, 1998),
Polwechsel 2 (january 1998 - Hat Hut, 1999), with Malfatti replaced by
saxophonist John Butcher, and
Polwechsel 3 (july 2001 - Durian, 2001), debuted solo with
Recital (Durian, 1999) that collects four of his
compositions for guitar and piano, notably the twenty-minute Teint and the 14-minute
Partitur.
He formed the duo Schnee (december 1999 - Erstwhile, 2000) with
Christof Kurzmann on laptop. The four lengthy jams
Nordrand (15:17)
Sans Soleil (20:46),
Passion (14:01) and
In Einem Jahr Mit 13 Monden (23:48)
straddled the border between free jazz, digital soundsculpting and progressive
rock.
After An Old-Fashioned Duet (Slub, 2002) with Taku Sugimoto, and the collaboration Eh (Erstwhile, 2002) with
computer musician Dieter "Dieb13" Kovacic, and
Can't Illumination (Musica Genera, 2003) with electronic musician
Robert Piotrowicz and alto saxophonist Anna Zaradny,
Compositions For Guitars (april 2003 - A Bruit Secret, 2003) collected
performances of compositions by Sugimoto and Brett Larner.
Stangl, Kurzmann, Bernhard Fleischmann,
Martin Siewert and Werner Dafeldecker formed The Year Of, that released
Slow Days (Morr, 2006) in a more conventional synth-pop style.
I Was (Hibari, 2006) was a collaboration between Stangl and
computer musician Taku Unami.
SSSD was the quartet of Martin Siewert, Burkhard Stangl, Taku Sugimoto and Werner Dafeldecker that released
Home (2002).
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