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intrinsic music ♫ solo work

Music, guitars, strings, whistling, light & love
(dedicated to my wonderful wife Sibylle)

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Sibylle

Music, guitars, art painting: Ax.

( the painting detail is from my art series "palaeoten" • www.weiss-haenitsch.de )

This tune is about contrasts and intensity in life, in remembrance of a completely forgotten ancient roman revolutionary, who geniously resisted then dictator lucius cornelius sulla: quintus sertorius (123–72 bc).
All of this music was played with a 1979 jazz guitar (ibanez gb 10), roland e-20 analog space echo, electro harmonix eh-5000 ring modulator, boss rc-2 looper and a floor pod plus - all in first takes and directed with a fv-500l expression pedal. 

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Quintus

The idea was to bring two crazy drummers together - one from Brazil, one from Africa. And the guitar between.
(Music, guitars, whistling, dig. drum edit., art paint. - me)

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Afro Brazil Alchemy

up and down - as life. it's always exciting to follow the music for and in itself, wherever it leads us. 

music, guitar - ax.w.

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Mad Cloud

Music & art - guitar, painting: Axel Weiss 

• The piece describes the fluid process of the emergence of an impressionist painting - at the very end, the small but decisive focal points are placed on the abundant prepared canvas. What the artist have not been able to know or see before exactly is often the most effective cynosure for the viewer • 

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The Impressionist

Spheres - solo album (www.axelweis.bplaced.net/wordpress/albums)
This album consists of 15 pieces (presenting 12 tunes here in a short compilation + 3 special bonus tracks). 

• Review by Gregory A. Edwards from New York City in his column 'The Gapplegate Guitar Blog':
"... Well, today we have another good one, a solo effort by Axel Weiss (aka Ax. W.), an album entitled Spheres, Solo (Intrinsic Records). Axel comes to the forefront in undiluted fashion, with his acoustic and electric guitars, a little whistling, some keys and digital percussion.
It is music of a thoughtful sort, guitar-centered ruminations that run from acoustic chordal or neo-Brazilian picking and articulating to electric expressions that have both jazz and rock overtones. All of it has an original, Axelian feel to it.
Axel is a true guitar artist and this album gives us a chance to appreciate his way about things, schooled, smart, detailed, driving or place-centered depending, but always interesting and creative.
It is, if I might be so bold, a guitar tour de force in its own way, a great listen and a wide swath of guitar artistry that folks should hear! Thanks for making this music, Axel! Recommended!"
( http://gapplegateguitar.blogspot.de/2015/09/ax-w-axel-weiss-spheres-solo.html )

Thank you, Grego, for your always great and intrinsic support of intrinsic music.
You are one of those few steadily jazz heroes who still try to keep our thing together.

• The video to the album: http://youtu.be/2wCv7zf6jSU

As our previous music albums 'Flow' and 'Silent Noise on Saturn' this is a free and independent work again. Commercial or medial success can't drive such a project - if one would have been focused on such a goal, this kind of music would not exist. It's all about music for itself -  born from the love of music.

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Spheres I (album compilation)

A spontaneous impro on Coltrane's 'Naima'. All effects were controlled by one ground pedal in real time while recording this first take, till the experiment ends with the effectless theme.

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Naima 3000

Music / guitar - Ax.W.
- Video: https://youtu.be/5SpnBOxw5wo
- Drooble : https://drooble.com/song/1925500

"Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance." (Epicure)

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A+Out

music & art by ax.w. • (the art detail is from my painting "table of the elements of mind") 
this tune is part I of my philosophy jazz series - listen to part II here: https://soundcloud.com/axelweis/aposteriori 

"all our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. there is nothing higher than reason." (immanuel kant)

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Apriori

Here is the solo version of this tune, the very first (and previously unreleased one).
Music, guitars, piano, bass, drum edit.: me

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Flow

A short improvisation based on my tune "Samoa" (https://soundcloud.com/axelweis/samoa)

This sketchy little thing came in while playing a bit around on a new bricolage - a self made baritone guitar.

• Note: the happy little girl on the photo is my lovely daughter Isabel (about 25 years ago), meanwhile grown up to the most beautiful, empathetic and intelligent young woman she is today :)

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Samoa Sketch

music / guitar / photo - ax.w. (germany)

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In Space

Guitars, whistling, perc. edit.: Ax.W.

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Capture

• music & art: ax.w. • (the art detail is from my painting "table of the elements of mind") 
this tune is part II of my philosophy jazz series - listen to part I here: https://soundcloud.com/axelweis/apriori

"all our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. there is nothing higher than reason." (immanuel kant)

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Aposteriori

• 'hohoutia te rongo' means to make peace and to hold it forever (in māori) • 

Guitar, ring modulator, art: Ax.W.
Artvideo: https://youtu.be/grvWrAQp5Pg

••• moe ahau o te loa neke o te mutunga te rangimarie pūmau i muri i te pakanga roa i roto i te tawhito moana ki te tonga ••• i dreamed of a moving peace ceremony after a long time of war in the ancient south seas ••• ich träumte von einer bewegenden friedensfeier nach einer langen zeit des krieges in der alten südsee ••• 

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hohoutia te rongo

A little sun song that went around the world 🌞

Listen to all the amazing contributions which were created by my friends: https://www.reverbnation.com/828725/albums/154176
It's an album with remastered files of all participants in this worldwide latin jazz music idea. My heartfelt thanks goes to my brilliant collaborators. 
Here they are:
• Leticia Gabian (Portugal) 
• Vicente Bueso (Spain) 
• Carlos Younes (Brazil) 
• Galina (Great Britain) 
• Jens Felger (Germany) 
• Graham Casey (Great Britain) 
• Werner Büsch (Germany) 
• Helena Paglia Rios & Quique Cano (Uruguay) 
• Anuradha Padmanabhan (India) 
• David Mackenzie (Scotland) 
• Derek Cornett (USA)

[Composition, guitar and whistling: Ax.W.]

Thanks a lot to Sasha Hohri from NeworldGlobalRadio.com in New York City for featuring and supporting 'Samoa' for about 6 months in the 'Le Petit Jazz Cafe' .
Here is the video on Fandalism: http://www.fandalism.com/axw/bGu9

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Samoa

Music: Ax.W. | first take recording
Guitar is a Eastman with a special violin shellac finish

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Let Go

Reminiscence to the passionate musical spirit of the 70s •
Guitars, piano, backing music arrangement - Ax.W.

Drooble: https://drooble.com/song/2188473 | You Tube: https://youtu.be/HmXUGgs_DWg

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Dance

The opening is dedicated to the wonderful music of John Coltrane. His ballad 'Naima' was the inspiration for the first part of this tune, played in one take. The second half is a spontaneously created latin jazz impro, played spontaneously in two spontaneous first takes too - on the rhythmic and the solo track. 

'Waters of Life' was generously featured over several months on Neworld TV in New York City (many thanks to Sasha Hohri for the biig support). 
Thanks a bunch to all listeners and friends here, too.

••• 

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Waters of Life

Final part of 'https://soundcloud.com/axelweis/prelude-for-kiribati', slightly extended.

Drooble: https://drooble.com/song/3001526
You Tube: https://youtu.be/_3JepvO85qg

Thank you for listening ☀️

A Minute

Making music, mainly with guitar. In the past (70s/80s) a lot, now from time to time. My paintings correspond to the music. You are welcome to listen and to enjoy if you like, if you can. Peace, Axel

intrinsic music ♫ solo work

Axel Weiß