40 years of Schlippenbach-Trio – the Schlippenbach Trio is still playing. 90 years of Bauhaus – Bauhaus is still standing. Congratulations! The Schlippenbach Trio is playing at Bauhaus. Now Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker and Paul Lovens get on the stage which has been restored true to the original, in order to present us with this cubistic, democratic design in the form of music: collective improvisation. No beginning. No end. Listen to how these asymmetric beings, with the classic free improvisation line-up who, in the right place, transcend borders, dissolve them in a constructivist and cubistic, multiplefractal manner, in order to present us so sensuously with such a “lack of illusions”

Cover art and graphic design: Jonas Schoder
Liner notes: Oliver Schwerdt
Photo: Caroline Forbes

Music by Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker and Paul Lovens. Recorded live at Bauhaus Dessau, November 18, 2009 by Bernd E. Gengelbach. Mixed and mastered by Bernd E. Gengelbach, Studio für leise Töne, Leipzig/Dessau. Copyright, published and produced by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt