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Rhythm Ace & Slingerland

by Sven-Åke Johansson & Albert Oehlen

  • Record/Vinyl

    LP with a poster and download card
    recorded at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg in May 2019
    Coproduction with Hetzler Gallery, Berlin and NI-VU-NI-CONNU

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A concept
by Albert Oehlen and Sven-Åke Johansson

Rhythm Ace & Slingerland, which was recorded during a concert conceived by Albert Oehlen with percussionist Sven-Åke Johansson
at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg in May 2019.

The idea originated from Johansson’s visit to the artist’s studio in 2018. Oehlen showed the drummer his collection of rhythm machines, American and Japanese, from the 1960s onwards.
Oehlen explains “I collect old drum machines because I fnd the contradiction fascinating that you collect devices that can do as little as possible. A drum machine is more attractive to me the more limited it is.”

Johansson responds to Oehlen’s musings and collection by creating the performance for Rhythm Ace & Slingerland. Johansson says of the performance “the situation was an extension of my being and also that of this device. It is a win for both: man and machine.
So the experiment was successful.”

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released December 5, 2021

This new album, a co-production by
NI VU NI CONNU and Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin 2020

Recorded by Andrew Levine
Artwork: Albert Oehlen
Liner notes by Max Dax
Letterpress sleeve: Die Lettertypen

Photos by def_image

Digital download and poster included
nvnc-lp021

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SÅJ-Records / Sven-Åke Johansson Berlin, Germany

Sven-Åke Johansson, born in 1943 in Mariestad (Sweden), is one of the style-defining drummers of the German free jazz era of the 60s and 70s. From the 80s onwards, he pursued an artistic path largely independent of institutions and groups as a music performer in the circles of fine arts and new music.

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