moscow by heart

Moscow by Heart

In memory of Misha Fainerman

Misha Feigin: guitar, voice | Helmut Bieler-Wendt – violin, objects | Johannes Frisch – double bass

Poem by Misha Feigin. Produced by Misha Feigin. Cover photo by Valentin Michkevitch.

All tracks recorded live at Badischer Kunstverein in full length with no overdubs or post production. Track 1 & 2 recorded in October 2004 at the first meeting of this trio. Track 4 to 6 recorded in May 2012. DPR Records, 221 N. Clifton Ave. # 31, Louisville KY 40206, USA.

All music by Moscow by Heart

Tracklist: 1. Seven Days, Feathered [10:41] 2. Against the Grain [18:57] 3. We Remember [14:36] 4. No Shores [10:27] 5. Taveling Light [6:06] Total Time: [61:27]

listen to Feigin, Helmut Bieler-Wendt, Frisch | Seven Days, Feathered (excerpt)

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Photo by Hubl Greiner

Helmut Bieler-Wendt studied violin, piano, music theory, improvisation and composition at the University of Music Karlsruhe with Hans Börner, Günter Reinhold, Eugen Werner Velte and Wolfgang Rihm. Furthermore he completed courses with Johannes Fritsch (contemporary music and improvisation), Michael Ranta (improvisation and asiatic music) and Peter Ausländer (experimental musical theater, dance). 1988 he took his artistic final examination with Wolfgang Rihm. Helmut Bieler-Wendt received scholarships of Karlsruhe and Darmstadt, of the ministry for science Baden-Wuerttemberg and the promoting community of German art. Since 1976 he works as a musician and composer in different formations.

Helmut Bieler-Wendt – projects and concerts with Lol Coxhill, Chico Freeman, Phil Minton, Ferdinand Richard, Hakim Ludin, Fred Frith, Mia Zabelka, Joachim Krebs, Sabine Schäfer, Hubl Greiner, Johannes Frisch, Peter Hollinger, Takumi Fukushima, Peter Kowald, Sainkho Namtchylak, Michael Bach, Dietmar Diesner, Johannes Bauer, Rudolf Theilmann, Irene Schweizer, Vladimir Vaclavec and many others. He was a member of THE BLECH from 1989 – 1996.

Since 2004 Helmut Bieler-Wendt is the director of “Institut für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung” (Institute for Contemporary Music and Music Education).

Johannes Frisch works since the late 1970s as a performer, composer and improviser of contemporary music between experimental rock, free jazz and other openminded styles. On his main instrument, the double bass, he works for more than three decades consequently on an individual expressive language. He played with lot of musicians of the international scene of free improvisation and all experimental fields – among others Lol Coxhill, Maggie Nicols, Johannes Bauer, Le Quan Ninh, Paul Hubweber, Michael Vorfeld, Misha Feigin. Compositions for theatre, film and dance theater actual projects: Kammerflimmer Kollektief; Home of the Beast, with Peter Hollinger und Helmut Bieler-Wendt; Ensemble Sondarc, Music for six double basses; rat’n’x; trio with Paul Wirkus & Mikolaj Trzaska;. concerts & festivals all over europe.

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