Cover: Extraplatte
Band · 1992 to 1994
Harry Pepl Quartet
N.Y.C. Impressure (New York 1992)
In June 1992 in New York, Harry Pepl, together with Claus Stötter (flugelhorn, trumpet), Paul Nowinski (bass) and Jojo Mayer (drums), recorded the album “N.Y.C. Impressure”, a few days after a concert at the Knitting Factory. In 1994 the Salzburger Nachrichten named it, in the view of their author, the Austrian jazz album of the year. It was reissued by Fullmax Recordings in 2020.
Harry Pepl Leader, guitar, keyboards, percussion
At a glance
- Line-up
- Harry Pepl (guitar, keyboards, percussion), Claus Stötter (flugelhorn, trumpet), Paul Nowinski (electric bass, double bass), Jojo Mayer (drums)
- Recording
- 4 and 5 June 1992, New York
- Concert
- Knitting Factory, New York, early June 1992 (invitation for 2 June)
- First edition
- Extraplatte EX 203-2, 1994
- Reissue
- Fullmax Recordings, 2020 (digital)
- Compositions
- Harry Pepl, one piece together with Claus Stötter
New York 1992
The recording took place on 4 and 5 June 1992 in New York, shortly after the concert at the Knitting Factory; the club's invitation gives 2 June 1992, Nikolaus Kohler the day before the recording. All the pieces are by Pepl, one of them together with Claus Stötter. The album was released on Extraplatte in 1994.1 The title combines “impression” and “pressure”; Pepl described the music as forceful and compact and linked it in the booklet to his view of the big city.2 He had already been working with Real-time Composing for some time, he wrote there. This is also how “Dinozzo” came about, which stands on the album as the closing piece in a „U-Musik-Version“ [“light-music version”] and is dedicated to Dino Saluzzi.3
Response and reissue
In July 1994 the Kronen Zeitung introduced Pepl with the CD as a „rastlosen Grenzgänger“ [“restless border-crosser”], and in their annual review the Salzburger Nachrichten called it, in the view of the review's author, the jazz album of the year.4 The quartet played until 1994.5 One piece also appeared on the compilation of the Lower Austrian Jazz Academy (1993), another in 1996 on an Extraplatte compilation. In 2020 Fullmax Recordings reissued the album digitally.
Notes and sources (5)
Parts
the (for the author of these lines) Austrian jazz album of the year, “N.Y.C. impressure”, by and with Harry Pepl
Versatility is as much a part of Pepl as his turn to different (compositional) techniques.
I live in a village in Lower Austria; perhaps that is why the dark sides of present-day urbanity strike me in particular
Releases
Listen and watch
A selection of Harry Pepl on Spotify, not only from this project.
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Questions and answers
Who played in the Harry Pepl Quartet?
Harry Pepl (guitar, keyboards, percussion), Claus Stötter (flugelhorn, trumpet), Paul Nowinski (bass) and Jojo Mayer (drums).
Where and when was “N.Y.C. Impressure” made?
On 4 and 5 June 1992 in New York, a few days after a concert at the Knitting Factory. The album was released on Extraplatte in 1994.
What does the title mean?
It combines the words “impression” and “pressure”; Pepl described the music as forceful and compact, shaped by his impressions of the big city.
Where is the album available today?
Fullmax Recordings reissued it digitally in 2020; it can be heard on the major streaming services.
In the chronology
In the press
- 2 April 1992 Knitting Factory Works, New York (Brief): Einladung an das Harry Pepl Quartet für den 2. Juni 1992
- December 1992 Jazzlive (10. Jahrgang, Nr. 99/1992): Titelbild Harry Pepl; „Soundknitting. Die farbenfrohen Klangmuster der New Yorker Knitting Factory“
- 1994 Zeitschrift (Titel nicht erhalten), Plattenkritik: Harry Pepl Quartet: „N.Y.C. Impressure“
- May 1994 Salzburger Nachrichten: Kurzkritik zu „N.Y.C. ImPressure“
- 27 May 1994 Der Standard: „Der Groove-Professor gibt sich recht unberechenbar“
- 28 July 1994 Neue Kronen-Zeitung (Ausgabe Steiermark, Seite 22): „Rastloser Grenzgänger“