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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005
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  1. 16 August 2024 · Other · JA

    Guitar Records, Japan (Plattenhandel, Social-Media-Post und Webshop): „ECM 55周年記念 特集“ (Auswahl von ECM-Gitarrenalben)

    Announcement by the Japanese record dealer Guitar Records of a sale marking 55 years of ECM (the renowned European jazz label), with original LPs by ECM guitarists including Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, John Abercrombie, Ralph Towner and Terje Rypdal. The list also includes “Herbert Joos - Harry Pepl - Jon Christensen / Cracked Mirrors / ECM 1356”. A dealer's offer, not a canon: it shows that the album was still on sale in Japan in 2024 as a sought-after original LP. According to the page, the sale was set for Friday, 16 August (year not stated, derived from the 2024 anniversary).

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  2. 25 November 2017 · Review · JA

    ジャズCDの個人ページ ECM Blog (kudoecm.blog.jp): „Cracked Mirrors/Harry Pepl(G, G Synth, P)/Herbert Joos(Flh)/Jon Christensen(Ds)(ECM 1356)“

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    Review on the Japanese blog “ジャズCDの個人ページ ECM Blog” (roughly “Personal jazz CD page, ECM blog”), on which the author kudojazz discusses the records of the renowned European jazz label ECM by catalogue number. He lists the recording of February 1987 with Harry Pepl (guitar, guitar synthesizer, piano), the German flugelhorn player Herbert Joos and the Norwegian drummer Jon Christensen, and notes that six of the eight pieces are by Pepl and two (“Wolkenbilder 1” and “Wolkenbilder 2”) by Joos. In his view the album combines passages that sound like free improvisation with pastoral ones, and depending on the piece the Roland MIDI guitar system creates a synthesizer-like expanse. On Pepl’s pieces he notes distinctly free traits with fine riffs and broad synthesizer textures in “Reflections in a Cracked Mirror”, a small ballad with a gentle flugelhorn melody in “Schikaneder Delight”, plenty of space and freedom in “Die alte Mär und das Mann”, very fast, mechanical free playing in “More Far Out Than East”, a melody floating above the jagged guitar in “Purple Light” and a calm, piano-led melody in “Tintenfisch Inki”.

    There are passages that sound like free improvisation and passages that are pastoral.

    kudojazz on his Japanese blog about ECM records, on “Cracked Mirrors” (ECM 1356, recorded in February 1987) with Herbert Joos and Jon Christensen

    Depending on the piece, the Roland MIDI guitar system creates a synthesizer-like expanse.

    kudojazz on the sound of Pepl’s Roland MIDI guitar system on “Cracked Mirrors” (ECM 1356, 1987)

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