Innovative Musical Solo Works in Highly Dramatic Settings Zurich saxophonist Ruedi Häusermann was a founding member of the Jerry Dental Kollekdoof collective before composing numerous pieces for theatre, cinema and radio and playing with Urs Blöchlinger, Marco Käppeli and many other Swiss German musicians. His new solo record, far from being the result of a solitary process, presents an almost integral version of the music he wrote for a play staged by the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich in 1997. The new studio mix for the present CD stays close to the original. With a fine sense of taste, Häusermann has whipped up a very particular composition for our listening pleasure. Singer-songwriter, he reduces the orchestra to the lowest common denominator - himself. He multiplies wind and percussion instruments, mixes voices in a kind of dadaist frenzy, submits surrounding sounds to electro-acoustical treatment and throws in a steel drum, broken guitars, bells, whistles and a prepared piano for good measure. Yet this bedlam of instruments and sounds is accompanied by a delicate feeling for composition. Häusermann makes use of sequence, redundancy and opposition to create an innovative musical work in a highly dramatic setting.