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Chadlehn
3+ albums
experimentalimprovisationfree improvisationelectroacousticeai
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Chadlehn is actually Eugene Chadbourne and Thomas Lehn performing as a duo, avant-garde orientations. Active from 1999s. Sooner or later, the mix-and-match nature of improv was bound to result in a meeting as odd as Chadlehn. A trip to Cologne brought eccentric stringed-thing wielder from Mount Vernon Eugene Chadbourne into the orbit of Cologne resident and analog-synth ace Thomas Lehn. With the Nickelsdorf Jazz Festival underway, and world leaders convened elsewhere in town for the G7 economic summit, the atmosphere seemed right for a spontaneous Chadlehn concert. Chadbourne takes on Lehn's bristling, occasionally blistering electronic emissions with a banjo, a modified acoustic-electric guitar, and various unspecified objects. While twangs, plinks, plucks, scrubbed strings, broken chords, mechanical fiddlings, and excitable frequencies fly freely, a genuine sense of repartee arises from the ruckus. "Crossroads," a fantastic 46-minute romp, proves that these two very versatile and voluble improvisers have plenty to say to one another. And if Appalachian-style fingerpicking antics weren't bizarre enough a foil for Lehn's dynamic synth modulations, Chadbourne also breaks into Gram Parsons' "Hickory Wind." Two shorter dialogs are just as animated, with both Lehn and Chadbourne in rare form on "Line Out." Recorded in the summer of 1990. Personnel: Eugene Chadbourne (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, banjo). Liner Note Author: Eugene Chadbourne. Recording information: Stadtgarte
