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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005
Cover: Gegenwind

cover and design: Frieder Grindler; Photos (Rückseite): Sepp Hofer, Herbert Pirchner

Recordings during his lifetime · 1980

Gegenwind

Pirchner / Pepl / Jazzzwio

First album by the Jazzzwio of Harry Pepl (guitar) and Werner Pirchner (vibraphone, marimba).

Year
1980
Label
Mood Records
Catalogue number
23999
Formats
LP
Harry Pepl
co-leader
Project
Jazzzwio
Recording
1 and 2 December 1979, studio “Ötzglumpf” on the Bisamberg near Vienna; mastering at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg
Reissued
1982: second edition on Mood Records, no. 28 616
Archive ID
HP-T-0028

Discogs

Tracks

  1. 1 Gegenwind 5:09
  2. 2 Der Tag, an dem wir erfuhren, dass Paul Desmond gestorben war 10:18
  3. 3 My One and Only Love Cover, with whistling 5:58
  4. 4 White Smoke 5:08
  5. 5 Drein sein beinander bleibn 6:23
  6. 6 Wirf an! 9:13

Pepl and Pirchner produced the album themselves; ECM and ENJA turned down the tape, and Mood Records (Stuttgart) released it. Kohler gives 5453 as the catalogue number; the cover and label carry 23999. The year of release is 1980; the earlier website gives 1979 (year of recording). A second edition appeared in 1982 under the number 28 616.

Listen and watch

Gegenwind, Jazzzwio

1979 · from the LP „Gegenwind“

Harry Pepl (guitar) and Werner Pirchner (vibraphone), title track of the first Jazzzwio album.

Jazzzwio: White Smoke (Gegenwind, 1980)

1980 · Mood Records, 1980

“White Smoke” (Harald Pepl and Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist), track 4 of the Jazzzwio album “Gegenwind” (Mood Records, 1980), 5:10. In 2020 Daniel Pepl suggested it as an alternative for the Ö1 radio programme because it is so thoroughly worked out.

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