Curator: Remco Takken
Subject: Schors
echo 22
nederlands verhaal
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Schors Schors is an improvising collective consisting of: DitmerWeertman: alto sax Jelis Stam:electric guitar Remco Takken: bass guitar (synthesizer in track 3) Robbert van Hulzen: drums The core of Schors is a quartet that divides itself regularly into in 4 solo-musicians, 6 duos and 4 trios. This bunch released 8 cds up to now; the mostly unreleased Music For 52 Weeks might count as number 9 in the catalogue. |  |
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1. Schorskwartet (added on august 12 2004) This is one of the first recordings of Schors, with limited equipment. Previuosley unreleased rehearsel recording. 2. Kern (Core) Ditmer Weertman solo. Previously unreleased alternate take from the cd KERN (Schors 8). 3. Scheur (Cut) In the drumless trio line-up of Schors, Remco Takken plays bass guitar or synthesizer. Here’s a recording where he’s playing synth. Previously unreleased alternate take from the cd SCHEUR (Schors 7). 4. Seinstoring (Signal Failure) The remarkable sounds of the strings during the recording sessions of the SEINSTORING cd is accomplished with a special miking technique. Al electric guitar sounds were recorded D.I. (Direct In) using amp simulation, so that’s without any microphones. The ‘real’ live sounds were therefore very soft: Jelis and Remco wore headphones while playing. After recording, the little sounds that came out of their un-amplified instruments have been put forward in the mix, making good use of a slight delay compared to the amplified electric guitar noise. Previously unreleased alternate take from the cd SEINSTORING (Schors 1). 5. Duo's A composition from the cd KWARTETPLAATJES. This piece shows just how easy it is for Schors to dissolve in smaller fractions: duets in this particular case. From the Kwartetplaatjes cd (Schors 2). 6. Michael Henderson This solo piece by bass guitarist Remco Takken is a tribute to Michael Henderson, the man who needed so few notes while playing in Miles Davis’ groups between 1970 and 1975. Previously unreleased. 7. Omgevingsmengsel (Ambient Remix) With a broad diversity of Cave and Cathedral reverb and other effects, the ambient remix cd OMGEVINGSMENGSEL was created. It’s an alternative mix of the original music from KWARTETPLAATJES. Previously unreleased alternate mix from Schors 3. 8. Een Fraai Stel (An Odd Couple) EEN FRAAI STEL is the follow-up to the SEINSTORING album. This second album was meant to showcase the more electronic side to the improvisations of Jelis and Remco. In this outtake (meant for Schors 5/6) you can hear that some moments resemble two guitarists just freaking away. Previously unreleased.  Remco and Jelis 10. Hout 2 (Wood 2) previously unreleased outtakes from the drumless trio album Hout (Schors 4). 11. Saxtrio One of the more obvious Schors line-ups, the saxophone trio, rarely plays and has never been recorded properly. Here’s a reconstruction of how that band might sound; this was achieved by omitting the guitar player out of the final mix. 12. Remco & Ditmer An odd duet of alto sax and bass guitar. Previously unreleased. 13. Kern (Core) Saxophonist Ditmer Weertman and guitarist Jelis Stam form the core of the Schors collective. They have been playing as a duo for some time now, and recorded a cd entitled KERN (Schors 8). This track is from that cd. 14. Gitaartrio (toegevoegd op 12 augustus 2004) Remco Takken is responsible for all Schors recordings. At home in Zwolle he does a lot of experimenting with editing and sound effects on the mostly in Amsterdam recorded pieces. This leads more often than not to results that are remoted from the music that was originally played. One could hear that on tracks 4 and 7 allready. This is one of the most radical and experimental efforts. Extreme filtering and EQ-values were released on the guitar track. Leaves us with the question: is still Schors? |