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POLWECHSEL

Werner Dafeldecker - double bass, electronics Michael Moser - cello, electronics Burkhard Beins - percussion and objects Martin Brandlmayr - percussion, vibraphone Watch: Polwechsel live in Sibiu/RO, 2011

Polwechsel formed in 1993, an all Austrian quartet of Michael Moser, Werner Dafeldecker, Burkhard Stangl and trombonist Radu Malfatti. When Malfatti left in 1997, John Butcher joined them to record Polwechsel 2 and 3, and also Wrapped Islands (with Christian Fennesz as a guest). In 2004 guitarist Burkhard Stangl left the group and two percussionists joined them, Martin Brandlmayr from Vienna and Burkhard Beins from Berlin. During a residency at Berlin's Tesla this quintet has recorded Archives of the North in 2006. After recording another CD with John Tilbury (released in 2009) John Butcher has decided to leave the group in late 2007. This has turned Polwechsel into a quartet again. The group works with compositions, improvisation and the ambiguity of these methods.

Latest CDs: ARCHIVES OF THE NORTH (2006) and FIELD with John Tilbury (2009) are out on HAT HUT

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