Reform Art Orchestra - Pannonian Suite

 2 CDr in LP jacket
Released 2014

1-1     –reformARTunit     Untitled     
1-2     –reformARTunit     Untitled     
1-3     –reformARTunit     Untitled     
2-1     –The MASTERs of unorthodox music     Untitled     
2-2     –The MASTERs of unorthodox music     Untitled     
2-3     –The MASTERs of unorthodox music     Untitled     
2-4     –The MASTERs of unorthodox music     Untitled     

Alaeddin Adlernest - bassoon (tracks: 2)
Paul Fields - electric violin (tracks: 1)
Johannes Groysbeck - bass guitar  (tracks: 1)
Inge Katharina Pechoc - piano (tracks: 2)
Monika Stadler - Harp (tracks: 2)
Shamal Amin - voice
Nikolaus Dolp - drums
Nigar Hasib - voice
Raoul Herget - tuba
Karl Wilhelm Krbavac - viola da gamba
Yedda Chunyu Lin - piano
Sepp Mitterbauer - trumpet   
Fritz Novotny - soprano saxophone, flute
Rudolf Ruschel - trombone
Hans Echnaton Schano - voice
Karl Vossner - english horn
 
Improcomposed on 10 September 2014
at Porgy and Bess jazz music club
produced by the reformARTorchestra

The Reform Art Unit featuring Sunny Murray - Subway Performance

Granit Records, GR 93003
RAU 1021
CD
1993

1  - Inside Work. Seven Movements Dedicated To Sunny Murray     20:00

Paul Fields - violin, piano
Sepp Mitterbauer - trumpet
Fritz Novotny - clarinet, soprano sax, flutes, small percussion
Mario Rechtern - alto, baritone and sopranino sax

Recorded live October 5, 1993 at Soundfield Studio, Lower Austria
Composed by Reform Art Unit

2 - The Subway Performance. Eleven Movements Dedicated To Adolf Frohner     45:00

Leena Conquest, Sainkho Namtchylak - vocals
Sepp Mitterbauer - trumpet
Fritz Novotny, Georg Graf, Mario Rechtern - reeds
Paul Fields - violin
Karl Wilhelm Krbavac - Viola
Mia Zabelka - violin
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - bass
Sunny Murray - drums
Walter Schiefer - percussion
Stefan Bochdansky, Susanna Wilhelmina - voices
Dieter Haspel - director

Recorded live on September 2, 1993 at the Subway Station U3 Westbahnhof in Vienna
Composed by Reform Art Unit

 

Reform Art Unit - Open Window Suite, 1986-1989

 granit record 2018

SIDE ONE
Part 1: 16 may 1986, Wien
Sepp Mitterbauer - percussion, trumpet
Fritz Novotny - percussion
Nikolaos Polimenakos - piano
Walter Schiefer - percussion

Part 2: 29 june 1986, Aigen/Enns
Gerhard Fritsch - tenor sax
Richard Isaiah - trombone
Siegi Lemmerer - hackbrett
Sandro Miori - tenor sax
Fritz Novotny - clarinet, soprano sax
Christian Salfellner - drums
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - double bass

Part 3: 6 march 1987, Linz
Paul Fields - keyboard, violin
Gerhard Fritsch - tenor sax
Fritz Novotny - khene, flute, soprano sax
Christian Salfellner - drums
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - double bass

SIDE TWO
Part 4:18 january 1989, Wien
Paul Fields - violin
Fritz Novotny - clarinet, soprano sax
Walter Schiefer - drums
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - double bass

Part 5: 17 september 1989, Wien
Paul Fields - violin
Fritz Novotny - glockenspiel, flute, clarinet
Sebastian Piekarek - flute
Walter Schiefer - drums
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - double bass
Rolf Schwendter - poetry

Part 6: 28 december 1989, Wien
Leena Conquest - vocal
Bleda Elibal - double bass
Paul Fields - violin
Fritz Novotny - flute, khene
Sebastian Piekarek - flute
Christian Salfellner - drums
Levent Tarhan - santur
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - double bass

Reform Art Unit with Milo Fine

 not my rip, is a mp3 from a musician

Fritz Novotny: reeds, percussion
Sepp Mitterbauer: trumpet
Paul Fields: piano, violin
Milo Fine: drums, clarinet, piano

Suite Milo       59:35

Recorded at Soundfields Studio, Vienna, Austria; November 29, 1996

1999, Granit (Austria) gr.96002/rau 1025

Reform ART unit Featuring The Americans - West East Suite

 RAU - 121610
Vinyl, Limited Edition of 95 copies
Released 21 Sep 2017

A1 - Songs Of July (Including <Witchi Tai To>)      
5:11
Bass Guitar – Dill Katz
Double Bass – Bleda Elibal
Drums – Brian Abrahams
Oud – Rabih Abou Khalil
Percussion [Tomback] – Mohammed Thamassebi
Piano – Paul Fields
Santoor – Levent Tarhan
Saxophone, Voice – Fritz Novotny, Jim Pepper
Vocals – Leena Conquest
Composed By Novotny, Pepper, Fields

A2 - East        
6:21
Clarinet – Fritz Novotny
Drums – Andrew Cyrille
Composed By Cyrille, Novotny

A3 - Pannonica. Pannonia
8:53
Percussion – Glen Hahn
Piano – Burton Greene
Soprano Saxophone – Fritz Novotny
Composed By Greene, Novotny, Monk

B1 - Ghana
6:30
Reeds, Percussion – Fritz Novotny, Walter Malli
Brass – Clifford Thornton, Franz Koglmann, Joseph Traindl, Sepp Mitterbauer
Keyboards – Giselher Smekal, Paul Fields
Bass – Heinz Jäger
Drums – Walter Schiefer
Composed By Thornton, Novotny

B2 - Double Three
12:32
Alto Saxophone – Anthony Braxton
Tenor Saxophone – Paul Fields
Soprano Saxophone – Walter Malli
Clarinet – Fritz Novotny
Double Bass – Heinz Jäger
Drums – Walter Schiefer
Composed By Braxton, Novotny

A1 — recorded 1990, July 6 at Vienna Town Hall (Rathaus, Wien)
A2 — recorded 1984, April 15 at Jazzforum Mödling
A3 — recorded 1982, November 27 at Podium Thürnthal
B1 — recorded 1978, October 1 at Krems Town Hall
B2 — recorded 1978, September 30 at Krems Town Hall

All titles released 1978 and 1999 on the millenium CD recorded by Granit Records

Reform Art Unit - Suite for Clifford

MC: GR 78402 /RAU 1008
CD:  GR 78003

in Nickelsdorf
12 September 1978

Clifford Thornton - Valve Trombone, Percussions
Fritz Novotny - Soprano Sax, Flute, Percussions
Paul Fields - Violin, Keyboard, Alto Sax
Walter Malli - Drums, Soprano Sax

Reform Art Unit - Live At The Gymnasium

Granit Records, Gr. 89401
RAU 1017
cassette
 
A1 - Lobua     6:43
A2 - Third Decade     15:32
B3 - Cloude Music     23:16

Klaus Bru - Reeds
Paul Fields - Violin, Piano
Sepp Mitterbauer - Trumpet
Fritz Novotny - Reeds, Percussion
Walter Schiefer - Drums, Percussion
Giselher Smekal - Synthesizer
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - Bass

Recorded June 1989, Live Gymnasium, Strebersdorf, Austria

Reform Art Unit with Ram Chandra - Yen Goku

I just had the new that Fritz Novotny passed away yesterday (I see now that the new has already been spread).
I dont know if Reform Art Unit will go on, but it won't be the same without him and Sepp Mitterbauer. They never care much about selling but more about making music, so they have so many buried records, here is one.
not my rip, all info from advancedpoetx.com and CD tray

1 - Yen Goku (G.Smekal)
first on GR 70402 / RAU 1003
cassette, june 1970

2 - Live in Ljubljana F. Novotny)
first on GR 72401/ RAU 1004
cassette, june 1972

Ram Chandra Mistry - Sitar
Walter M.Malli - Percussions, Alto Flute
Anton Michlmayr - Bass
Sepp Mitterbauer - Trumpet
Fritz Novotny - Sopranosaxophone, Flute, Percussions
Giselher Smekal - Organ, Piano

reformARTunit Sextet, at the Festwochen Arena, Vienna

from a CD by granit record , gr 70003

Reform Art Unit - st (RAU 1976)

RAU Records 1005
Vinyl, LP
1976

Paul Fickel - violin, percussions
Sepp Mitterbauer - Trumpet, piano, percussions
Günther Rabl - bass, xylophone
Fritz Novotny - soprano sax, oriental reeds, flutes, xylophone, percussions
Muhammad Malli - drums, soprano sax, percussions

A1 - Railway East         19:00
B1 - Stillstand         10:50
B2 - Metallische Gebilde     12:10

Recorded December 4th and 5th, 1975 in Vienna

Reform Art Music - Es Steht Geschrieben

Reform Art Music - Es Steht Geschrieben, Drago PRELOG
homage for Walter Malli

CD AR 20105

Linda Sharrock - vocal
Sepp Mitterbauer - trumpet
Fritz Novotny - arghool, bombarde, clarinet, flute, soprano sax, percussion
Alaeddin Adlernest - basson
Yedda Chunyu Lin - piano, voice
David AyankokoVilayleck - laptop
Ram Chandra Mistry - sitar
Paul Fields - violin, synth, alto sax
Johannes Groysbeck - el. bass guitar, groysophon
Walter Malli - drums, soprano sax

homage 1 - live at the Amman Studios, april 2012
homage 2 - live at the Museum des XX.JAHRHUNDERTS, june 1981
homage 3 - live at the Sophiensale, march 1981

The Reform Art Unit - For John Coltrane And Pablo Picasso (Voves 1996)

The Reform Art Unit live at the Museum of 20th Century in Vienna, April 25, 1969. An instant composition in 3 movements by Fritz Novotny.


Fritz Novotny - Flute, Soprano Sax, Percussion
Muhammad Malli  - Drums
Sepp Mitterbauer - Piano, Trumpet
Toni Michlmayr - Double Bass

1 - For John Coltrane And Pablo Picasso: One         13:11
2 - For John Coltrane And Pablo Picasso: Two     16:15
3 - For John Coltrane And Pablo Picasso: Three     12:40

Bonus track: Human Closely
Reform Art Unit Extended, live at the Alte Schmiede in Vienna, 5 January 1995.
featuring Sunny Murray. An instant composition by Paul Fields, Karl W. Krbavac, Sunny Murray, Fritz Novotny

4 - Human Closely            29:14

Paul Fields - Violin, Alto Sax
Karl W. Krbavac - Viola Da Gamba
Sandro Miori - Tenor Sax
Sepp Mitterbauer - Trumpet
Sunny Murray - Drums
Fritz Novotny - Clarinet, Flute, Soprano Sax, Percussion
Mario Rechtern - Sopranino, Alto, Baritone Sax, Oboe, Selfmade Instruments
Reinhard Ziegerhofer - Double Bass
Helmut Schiefer - Percussion

"For John Coltrane and Pablo Picasso" was produced in 1969 as RAU 1002 but released here for the first time.

Voves Productions, Voves CD 90001
 A Reform Art Unit Production , RAU 1002
Austria, 1996

Trio P E I - Yedda Chunyu Lin, Fritz Novotny, Lukas Ligeti

Many of us seem interested in the collective group Reform Art Unit. The history of this collective has often been punctuated by individual sub-projects among the members of the group. The trio Pei fits in this musical tradition. Indeed, Yedda Chunyu Lin is Reform Art Unit's pianist. She created the group with R A U's founder Fritz Novotny and Lucas Ligeti. P.E.I means Passion, Energy, Intensity. Here is a live recording kindly offered by Yedda, given at the release of their first album. Also included some sound clips of this first cd packaged in a beautiful gatefold lp sleeve.

This album is fantastic and you can support the artist and order it directly to Yedda 

PEIArtMusic@gmail.com

You can also visit her web at

https://yeddachunyulin.wordpress.com

Find one recent recording of the R A U with Yedda Chunyu Lin recently posted here

http://inconstantsol.blogspot.fr/2017/05/reform-art-quartet-prelogien-live-at.html

Great live, two tracks:

Yedda Chunyu Lin: piano

Fritz Novotny: Soprano sax, flute

Lukas Ligeti: Drums

THREE MOTIONS ‎– IMPRESSIONS (KOVARIK'S MUSIKOTHEK, 1979)

A1. Impressions
A2. Double Three

B.  Trio ACW

Anthony Braxton, alto saxophone
Heinz Jäger, bass
Fritz Novotny, arabian flute, clarinet
Muhammad Malli, soprano saxophone, drums
Walter Schiefer, drums, percussion
Paul Fickl, tenor saxophone, electric piano, violin
Clifford Thornton, trumpet

Recorded live at the "First International Music Workshop", Krems, on 30 September 1978

Kovarik's Musikothek ‎– R.A.U. 1010

LP Rip

REFORM ART UNIT "DARJEELING" (WM PRODUKTION, 1970)

Fritz Novotny, soprano saxophone, turkish & indian flutes
Sepp Mitterbauer, trumpet
Giselher Smekal, piano
Ram Chandra, sitar
Toni Michlmayr, bass
Muhammad Ali, percussion


1. Darjeeling - part 1 (20:59)
2. Darjeeling - part 2 (19:25)


Live at the "Museum of the 20th Century", Vienna, June 7, 1970.


WM Produktion WM 20 011 (this rip from a 1998 released CD-r version)

MASTERS OF UNORTHODOX JAZZ & REFORM ART UNIT "VIENNA JAZZ AVANTGARDE" (WM-Prod, 1971)

For Isabelle from Lyon, heres a repost from 2010, i've simply Changed the date on the original post to move it forward , everything else is as was originally published

Here's a little a little something congruent with the recent fascinating thread started by Onxydlib.
Firstly i must confess to an almost total ignorance of the Austrian and in this case Viennese Free Jazz scene of the late 60's and early 70's , knowing a few names , and having heard a tiny smattering of the music is all i can honestly profess.

Ive had this for years , whilst knowing next to nothing about it, and i guess i ought to declare that the vinyl itself is well worn , and covered in surface scratches... I've done my best in terms of balancing declicking the digital files and maintaining the Fullness of the original sound.

A lot of vinyl rips and concerts that have been cleaned up sound bleached out and thin to my ears ..... so ive done as little as possible ... a light sweep of crackle , and removals of individual objects... no compression, limiting or eq'ing what so ever.

Franz Ringel .. Who designed the cover is someone i know more about, He is one of Austrias national treasures.. More of his work can be Viewed here.

i find these sides , and particularly the reform art unit, more than merely very interesting listens and these certainly induce a craving to hear more!!!

Most people will have at least come across Toni Michelmyr , and Muhammad Malli, the bassist and drummer on both these sessions , they come across very strongly indeed , giving the impression they must have worked together alot....

Both also play on Steve lacy-Franz Kogelmqann's 'Opium" from the mid 70's which has been reissued By Kogelmann on his between the lines label , and is the only other thing i have actually heard by these guys .
there are- also a few tracks on the lacy Savarah Anthology "Dreams Scratching the 70s"which feature Muhammed MaLli as a guest percussionist.

There is not much info out there, in English about either of these groups .... its clear though that Masters of Unorthodox Jazz recorded several lp's at the very least, and Reform Art Unit , at least 4 or 5.
if anyone can provide more info , and or share other albums by these groups ... please do!

LP1 - Masters of Unorthodox Jazz
Allaeddin Adlernest (bassoon) Harum Ghulam Barabbas (as, ldr) Ahmed Pechoc (p) Tony Michlmayer (b) Muhammad Malli (d, perc)


LP2 - Reform Art Unit
Sepp Mitterbauer (tp, org) Heinz Cadek (tb) Fritz Novotny (sop, fl, perc) Giselher
Smekal (org, p, perc) Tony Michlmayr (b) Muhammad Malli (perc) Kristin Novotny (vcl)
Vienna, May 5, 1970
Meditation-conversation and love (kn vcl)



ENJOY!!