Globe Unity
by Alexander von Schlippenbach
- Type: Album
- Released: 1967
- Label: SABA
- Country: Germany
- Length: 40:46
- Community rating: 3.8/5 from 3 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
A colossal achievement in avant-garde big band composition, assembling leading figures of the European free jazz scene. The massive ensemble engages in dense, chaotic collective improvisation, juxtaposed against structured, highly dissonant orchestral themes.
Genres
Descriptors: instrumental, noisy, improvisation, acoustic, avant-garde
Tracklist
- Globe Unity (20:22)
- Sun (20:43)
Credits
- Peter Br枚tzmann - alto saxophone [alto sax], guiro
- Kris Wanders - baritone saxophone [baritone sax], zurna [zorna], flute [lotus flute ii], alto saxophone [alto sax]
- Willem Breuker - baritone saxophone [baritone sax], soprano saxophone [soprano sax], rattle
- Gunter Hampel - bass clarinet, flute, pandeiro
- Peter Kowald - bass [left channel], bells [small, left channel]
- Buschi Niebergall - bass [right channel], siren [right channel]
- Manfred Schoof - cornet, flugelhorn, triangle
- Jaki Liebezeit - drums [left channel], drums [kettledrums, left channel], temple block [left channel], goblet drum [left channel]
- Alexander von Schlippenbach - Primary Artist, Performer [Knife, Flexafon]
- Claude Deron - Flute [Lotus Flute I]
- Willi Lietzmann - Maracas
- Mani Neumeier - Tom Tom [Tam Tam], Wood Block, Percussion [Mani Tom, Right Channel], Gong [Right Channel], Tabla [Right Channel]
- Karl Berger - Vibraphone
- Gerd Dudek - Whistle [Duck Call]