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Peter Kowald
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Peter Kowald was born in 1944 and was a German bassist and tuba player from free jazz and free improvisation. He was a member of the Globe Unity Orchestra and, until 1985, of the London Jazz Composer's Orchestra, and toured as a solo double bassist. He worked with many European and American free jazz musicians, among them Peter Brötzmann, Irène Schweizer, Fred Anderson, Hamid Drake, Wadada Leo Smith, William Parker, Barre Phillips, Joëlle Léandre and Evan Parker. He also recorded solo albums for double bass and made special duos with, among others, Maarten Altena, Barry Guy and Joëlle Léandre.
Music and breakthrough
Kowald also collaborated a great deal with poets, visual artists and dancers. Examples are Die Klage der Kaiserin from 1989 with Pina Bausch, short pieces with Jean Sasportes and performances with Min Tanaka and Butch Morris. He also worked in duo with singers such as Jeanne Lee, Diamanda Galás and Sainkho Namtchylak. His albums include Hot Lotta (1973), Carpathes (1976), Touch the Earth (1980) and Global Village Suite Improvised (1988).
Influence
His special interest lay with Global Village, an international improvisation ensemble with musicians from China, Japan, the Near East, southern Europe and North and South America. Kowald died in 2002 in New York of a heart attack.
Listening
Discography
Studio albums
- 1973Hot Lotta
- 1976Carpathes
- 1979Die Jungen: Random Generators
- 1980Touch the Earth
- 1982If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells
- 1982Two Making a Triangle
- 1983What Are You Talking About?
- 1985World-Music-Meeting
- 1988Global Village Suite Improvised
- 1988Open Secrets
- 1990Human Aspect
- 1991Duos: Europa · America · Japan
- 1992Cappuccini Klang
- 1992When the Sun Is Out You Don’t See Stars
- 1993Πυρήχεια
- 1994The Remedy
- 1995Cuts
- 1995Nil
- 1995Was da ist
- 1997Αφορισμοί - Aphorisms (26 Statements on the Situation)
- 1998CIMPhonia 1998, Part 1
- 1999CIMPhonia 1998, Part 2
- 1999Postura
- 2001Deals, Ideas & Ideals
- 2001Mirrors - Broken but No Dust
- 2001Of Mountains and Valleys
- 2001Open Secrets - A Suite in 13 Parts
- 2001Open Systems
- 2002Principle Hope
- 200313 Definitions of Truth
- 2003Between Heaven and Earth
- 2003Illuminations (Several Views)
- 2004Global Village
- 2005Aria
- 2006Ghetto Calypso
- 2006Sea of Lead
- 2009Bass Solo
- 2012Encounter and Improvisation
- 2013Trio and Duo in New Orleans
- 2014Instants Chavirés
- ?Free Jazz
- ?Open Secrets
In School of Rock
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