Cover: Bellaphon Records; Foto Vorderseite: D. Gerhard
Recordings during his lifetime · 1981
The Loss
Werner Pirchner / Harry Pepl / Brüning von Alten / Wayne Darling / Leszek Zadlo
Quintet album on which Pepl is represented with “Hernstein 144”, named after his address in Hernstein, Lower Austria.
- Year
- 1981
- Label
- Bellaphon (Danube Jazzserie)
- Catalogue number
- 270-31-03
- Formats
- LP
- Harry Pepl
- co-leader
- Project
- The Loss
- Recording
- March 1981, Schmettersound Studios, Vienna; sound engineer Josef Breitenthaler (back cover)
- Archive ID
- HP-T-0034
Tracks
- 1 Hernstein 144 7:31
- 2 The Loss 6:05
- 3 Love Song 11:33
- 4 The Imprisoned Bird 11:23
- 5 The Other Samba 9:59
Kohler gives the title on the cover as “The Lass”. The album was released by Bellaphon in 1981 (Kohler and the earlier website give 1982); the catalogue number on Discogs is 270·31·003. The band fell out soon after the recording. The record is now also available digitally on streaming services, for example on Spotify.
The back cover lists all tracks with their composers: “Hernstein 144” (Harry Pepl), “The Loss” (Wayne Darling), “Love Song” (Brüning von Alten), “The Imprisoned Bird” (Werner Pirchner) and “The Other Samba” (Leszek Zadlo). The album was recorded in March 1981 at Schmettersound Studios in Vienna, with Josef Breitenthaler as sound engineer; the front cover photo is by D. Gerhard, the group photo on the back by Herbert “Pauli” Pirchner.
