| VIOLIN TALES OR RHAPSODY IN RED
One
could describe the violinist from Munich, Hannes Beckmann,
as a musical counterpart of Emil Nolde. Just as that expressionist
painter acquired a more gorgeous and brighter style of colouring,
so also Beckmann: "Through his openness towards new influences,
particularly Brazilian and Afro-Cuban, but also South East
European and classical music, he decidedly enriched the
post-Hot Club and Stephane Grappelli style to find a language
of his own, in which the rhythmic intensity of the American
school and the finely chiselled elegance of the gipsy tradition
or the long rhapsodic breath of a Ray Nance are equally
present..." - so says the RoRoRo Jazz Lexicon.
Tales
told and retold, Violin Tales: Beckmann relates his stories
with sensitivity and intuition: his arrangements are stringent.
The violin especially has always signified the bright scarlet
of feeling, so that the danger of sentimentality lurks at
every twist. Beckmann, on the lookout for emotional depth,
is immune to this danger, with his masterful understanding
of how to make use of shrewd provocation and bizarre alienation
effects.
Producers: Hannes Beckmann, Michael Blam & Peter Wiessmueller
Recording: Zoran Maric
Location: Radio Belgrad, Studio 6, January 1998
(c) & (p) 1999 Pasparamas Music
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