{"product_id":"bruno-spoerri-reto-weber-controlled-risk-limited-edition-vinyl-swiss-import-pre-order-out-2-5-27","title":"Bruno Spoerri \u0026 Reto Weber - Controlled Risk (Limited Edition Vinyl, Swiss Import) PRE-ORDER - Out 2\/5\/27","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a pre-order. It will ship on or around 2\/5\/27\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWRWTFWW Records presents the official reissue of long lost Swiss electronic jazz, experimental, computer music gem \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eControlled Risk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eBruno Spoerri\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eReto Weber\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. There are experimental musicians, and then there are musicians who simply refuse to recognize the border between acoustic and electronic music. Swiss saxophonist, composer and electronic-music pioneer Bruno Spoerri had been crossing that border since the late 1960s, building Switzerland's first private electronic studio in 1970 and moving from saxophone through synthesizers, Lyricon and, by the mid- 1980s, the Synthophone -- a MIDI saxophone developed in Switzerland. Percussionist Reto Weber came from the opposite direction: away from the conventional drum kit and towards an ever-expanding universe of hand percussion, found sounds and instruments discovered through travel and musical exchange. Spoerri and Weber began working together in the 1970s, releasing the astonishing live \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sound of the UFOs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in 1978 and subsequently playing hundreds of concerts together. Ten years later, that dialogue reached another level with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eControlled Risk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, originally released by Konnex Records in 1988. Recorded live to two-track at Powerplay Studios in Maur, Switzerland, on April 20 and 21, 1988, the album catches Spoerri on saxophone, synthesizer and Synthophone opposite Weber's arsenal of percussion, with virtually no safety net between action and tape. This is not polite fusion and not academic computer music. It is physical, funny, raw, hyper-alert music -- technology treated as an improvising instrument rather than a replacement for musicians. If you need coordinates, think less European jazz fusion and more the restless, anything-goes energy surrounding late-'80s downtown New York and the early Knitting Factory: jazz, electronics, global rhythm and new technology thrown into the same room to see what survives. WRWTFWW Records now brings \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eControlled Risk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e back into circulation, newly remastered and presented with new liner notes by Swiss jazz writer and curator \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eRudolf Amstutz\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. What once sounded like an eccentric collision of jazz, MIDI and percussion now feels uncannily contemporary: an adventurous, joyful and seriously strange document from two musicians who understood that the future of music would not belong to machines or humans, but to the sparks produced when the two are allowed to play together.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jackpot Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68056595202266,"sku":null,"price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/5705\/3402\/files\/WRWTFWW135LP_CU.jpg?v=1793982150","url":"https:\/\/jackpotrecords.com\/products\/bruno-spoerri-reto-weber-controlled-risk-limited-edition-vinyl-swiss-import-pre-order-out-2-5-27","provider":"Jackpot Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}