KING ÜBÜ ÖRCHESTRÜ
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Related Improv, Composition • Multi-National

The Örchestrü, or just Übü as it was referred to among the collective, coalesced in rural Germany sometime in the early 1980s from several different working groups. Their focus on sonic texture rather than intensity... was something that evolved organically as a function of the members involved. Paul Lytton said that when a new musician played with the group it quickly became apparent whether they were going to work out in the overall chemistry or not, as the groups propensity for maintaining persistent and hypersensitive group interplay was off-putting for some looking for a vehicle with the possibility of more individual expression. Fuchs ultimately took up the responsibility of being the central organizer and artistic director of the group. When asked about the difficulty of organizing such a large multinational ensemble in the days before the internet, Lytton had a funny, simple answer, "You had to be a man of read more...