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Rainer Bruninghaus

Freigeweht

ECM
Release Date: January 31, 2025

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Released in 1981, the debut of the legendary keyboardist from Eberhard Weber’s Colours band and later the Jan Garbarek Group, Freigeweht presented Rainer Brüninghaus as a highly original and idiosyncratic sound sculptor in his own right, accompanied by ECM stalwarts Kenny Wheeler on flugelhorn and drummer Jon Christensen as well as oboist Brynjar Hoff. In a review of the album from the year of its release, the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung traced Rainer’s influences and minimalist designs back to Steve Reich, calling Brüninghaus “the most imaginative musician to employ minimal art in the realm of jazz. (…) Though he neither uses minimal art as ideology nor as replacement for a rhythm section, but in a more playfully constructive way, as an element that can undergo change.” Jon Christensen adds uncompromising propulsion to Brüninghaus’s lyrical themes, which are evocatively fleshed out by Wheeler and Hoff’s contemplative tones. (The Luminessence edition of ‘Freigeweht’ arrives in a tip-on gatefold accompanied by new liner notes).

  • Rainer Bruninghaus - Freigeweht on ECM gets ***1/2* - marlbank review
    Posted At: December 28, 2024
    marlbank writes……Recorded in Oslo’s Talent studio in 1980 and released the following year tunes are by Rainer Brüninghaus. Manfred Eicher produced and the sound engineer was Jan Erik Kongshaug (1944-2019). The album, in English, ‘Set Free by the Wind,’ is notable for its still very unusual use of oboe in a jazz context and doesn’t sound at all bizarre, contrived or dated at all given how future facing Brüni...
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