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the New York Times wrote about
2008/4/13
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/arts/music/13play.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin
The German free-improvisation quartet Doppelmoppel has completely bizarre instrumentation for any genre: two
trombones, one acoustic guitar, one electric guitar. It has survived for more than 25 years, very intermittently,
because all four members have the sort of working lives that free improvisers do, with one far-flung project after
another. But on “Outside This Area” (Intakt), its new record, Doppelmoppel sounds in easy, familiar agreement. The
trombone-playing Bauer brothers, Conny and Johannes, set up opposing long tones and melodic figures or fill in each
other’s spaces while the two guitarists play games of opposites: Uwe Kropinski uses swing rhythm and graceful
chords, whereas Joe Sachse loves the rumble and clank of electric noise. They all take turns making up for the lack
of a rhythm section. It’s an unorthodox, funny and coordinated record, free from a unified genre language.
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