Gerald Preinfalk: reeds
Martin Siewert: guitar
Robert Riegler: bass
Christian Salfellner: drums

• a particularly painful eczema in the erogenous East Zone affecting musicians of both sexes, brought on by recurrent and fruitless rehearsing in overheated practice rooms with poor sanitational facilities
• a brilliant drumbeat combination (11 to 23) of the Balinese aborigine, documented variously on select and sinfully expensive recordings by Extraplatte. For optimal use of this bold and intricate rhythmic scheme, maintenance of a 3 1/2 day period of celibacy before the first drumming session is recommended for the drumming parties. This restriction, it should be noted, is one cause of the relative infrequency of this drum combination;
• a technical term from scatalogy, pertaining to Plato's internal secretions;
• a dangerous, explosive mixture of elements from M-Base and "Harmomelody", resembling the "Marsalis Syndrome" in its effect on the pecuniary system.

To start, an announcement of our first major contest: Send us a postcard (before 1 April) containing your best Harry Sokal anecdote(s). On April 30 - to end this season - Leo Lukas will read out the 20 best. The winner will receive five free lessons in sound-engineering from Ronald Matky, our chief soundman.

And now to the actual matters at hand: On 26.3 - following on the heels of his last band, Depart - Sokal will present the new, exciting project he has launched with Supergroovers Jojo Mayer and Gerald Veasley. Continuing on backwards through this portrait series - on 25.3, he'll reflect on his long-term collaboration with Wolfgang Puschnig and, on 24.3, will open this series with a tribute to John Coltrane.

Harry Sokal... a European tenor with hard-to-beat intensity... MR

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