Westwerk, by Elliott Sharp

Westwerk

by Elliott Sharp

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1.	Temblor 14:38	buy track
2.	Gargoyle 06:54	buy track
3.	Flag Rally 01:16	buy track
4.	Rods And Cones 14:01	buy track
5.	Histogram 35:45	buy track

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Document of a live solo concert by E# in 1992 at Hamburg's Westwerk, an independent cooperative culture space. On this tour, Sharp debuted his new double neck guitar bass built by Doug Henderson. The concert also features E#'s soprano saxophone and throat singing. The music bridges the gaps between NoWave rock and free improvisation, heavy metal and noise, proto-industrial and classical extended techniques.

Westwerk was originally released in 1992 by the Berlin label Ear-Rational, run by Manfred Schiek and named for E#'s "IrRational Music" concepts.

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released April 14, 2022

Elliott Sharp: double neck guitarbass, soprano saxophone, throat singing, preparations

Recorded live at Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany, Nov. 29, 1992

Original stereo recording by Carsten Dane

Mastered at Studio zOaR - NYC

All compositions published zOaR Music - BMI

Cover photograph by Dorle Bahlburg

Design by Janene Higgins

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Elliott Sharp New York, New York

Elliott Sharp: composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, author, leads Orchestra Carbon, Tectonics and Terraplane with compositional strategies including fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors as well as new techniques for graphic notation to yield work that catalyzes a synesthetic approach to musicmaking as well as functioning as retinal art. ... more

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