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Harry Pepl * 1945  † 2005
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Work · mica dates it 1984; Kohler: Pepl already wanted to play the piece with The String Summit in 1980

Radlbremser

Bike Breaker; Bikebraker; Bikebreaker

Semiquaver theme at up-tempo, played in unison with Wolfgang Puschnig; on “Prayer for Peace” (Air Mail, 1985) as “Bike Breaker”, on “Light Blues” (1988) with a MIDI drum intro, and in 2015 on the double CD.

Authors
Harry Pepl
Genre
jazz composition
Line-up
Quartet: saxophone, drums, guitar, double bass (Air Mail)
Publisher
Pepl Daniel Musikverlag (Fullmax Publishing)
ISWC
T0010294571
AKM work number
861687
Sheet music
Lead sheet: Lead sheet in the estate (Dropbox /Harry Pepl/Noten/Jazz Tunes).
Archive ID
HP-W-0141

Kohler distinguishes three versions (without MIDI, with MIDI, Raab 1993). The theme works with fourths and a wider range; it was considered so difficult that in 1980 it was too demanding for the ensemble of The String Summit.

In the catalogue of the INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel, the French archive for radio and television), the piece appears in two concert recordings by Radio France (France's public radio broadcaster). With the Michel Portal Unit on Monday, 10 March 1986, “Radl Bremser pastor” is listed as a single entry: two pieces, Pepl's “Radlbremser” and Michel Portal's “Pastor”, which followed each other directly or merged into one another, as Pepl and his fellow musicians liked to do (according to Pepl's son Daniel Pepl). With Air Mail, in a recording which the INA dates to Thursday, 15 May 1986, it is called “Bike breaker”.

Listen to the recording

Airmail: Radlbremser (Light Blues (Austrian Jazzart 1), 2001)

2001 · Universal / EmArcy, 2001

“Radlbremser”, track 9 of the album “Light Blues” by Airmail (EmArcy, Universal Music Austria, Austrian Jazzart series no. 1, 2001, reissue of the 1988 Amadeo edition). Daniel Pepl made the whole album available in 2020 for the Ö1 radio programme on his 75th birthday.

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Recordings

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