Soldier of the Road: A Portrait of Peter Brötzmann
2012 · 93 MIN · IMDB 6.5 · 11 VOTES · DIR. Bernard Josse
Overview
How do you become Peter Brötzmann? How do you become what you are: a painter, a musician, an absolute artist? Europe was nothing but a ruin and shame possessed the heart of the young Germans. They needed to invent, scream, regain a lost brotherhood. Overcome this silence! That’s how some young German, British, Dutch, Belgian… musicians made Europe exist long before Maastrich and have kept on cherishing, imperturbably, their freedom! They are no longer twenty-year-olds, but others have followed. They set themselves one constraint: reinvent everything every time. A way to take the very instant into account, to let the unexpected in, to match to the world.
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00:39:55 We don't choose melodies to be played
00:40:05 It must surprise people, even ourselves
00:40:14 And it has to be faraway from conventionaljazz
00:40:21 We are not able to say
00:40:28 that we're gonna play a solo then, after 30 minutes
00:40:35 It's not happening this way
00:40:42 but we never know when we begin
00:40:50 it's improvisation, really
00:40:59 we just don't know what we're going to play, I mean.
00:41:04 we have to make the most beautiful music, I mean...
00:41:14 But, of course, we like thatvery much...
00:41:20 of playing with other people, of course
00:41:28 butwealso can contradict the other, or the others
00:41:37 When one thing is working well
00:41:40 then, other ideas will come immediatly
00:41:49 than justgoing on with what was already very good.
00:41:56 itdoesn't mean that the others have to cut it as well
00:42:04 and I say : pfuit...
00:42:12 Kind of surprises...
00:44:07 Atthat time, we knew that there were several musicians
00:44:14 that were playing the same music as we did
00:44:20 Brötzmann and Kowald in Wuppertal, that we had met
00:44:28 More in the germanic countries than in others in Europe, I mean.
00:44:41 I had a carso we went...