Carl Ludwig Hubsch 2005 2: Is This Our Music?

Carl Ludwig Hubsch's Longrun Development Of The Universe ~ 2: Is This Our Music? ~ 2005
Konnex Records KCD 5163.

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1. Fragment 3 0:25
2. NGC 2265 18:48
3. El Eterno 4:21
4. Fragment 1 0:32
5. Fragment 2 0:28
6. Fragment 5 0:42
7. Remembering 0:43
8. NGC 2270 Terrier 13:59
9. NGC 2274 Akkord 12:18
10. Fragment 4 1:15
11. Al Kaphra 7:44

If Carl Ludwig Hübsch plays his tuba in the woods and there's no one to hear it, does it make a sound? One presumes that he can hear what he's playing, but one also concludes from his self-penned liner notes to the second CD by Longrun Development of the Universe that at least two more elements -- someone to share in the process of collaboration, and someone to listen -- are absolute prerequisites before those low notes issuing forth from the big horn's bell could be defined as "music." And so Hübsch and his collaborators -- Köln tenor saxophonist Matthias Schubert and Dutch trombonist Wolter Wierbos -- engage in stream-of-consciousness dialogues that seem to involve not only themselves but the listener as well: anyone involved in the conversation, or lack of conversation, can seemingly send the collective off on one tangent or another. These tangents range from the harmonically consonant to the ear-bendingly dissonant, from the wildly improvisational to the intricately scored, from the ultra-serious to the just plain goofy (the CD booklet photo is a tipoff that these guys are not exactly straight-laced academics), and from the densely constructed to the sparse and barely audible... - Dave Lynch, AMG