Tristan Honsinger
Biography
Born in New England, the cellist Tristan Honsinger studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. By the '70s, the Trans-American had moved to Amsterdam and formed the Instant Composers Pool with drummer Han Bennink and radical pianist Misha Mengelberg. With this avant-jazz group, his music transcended the classical conservatory background he had and he began to incorporate wild, free improvisation, jazz, and European folk music into his cannon, not to mention a kinship with Bertolt Brecht theatre, which would put an edge on performances and recordings that take on experimental strategies, some of which include what could be considered violent attacks on the instrument. Here he would find a kinship with Cecil Taylor, who also liked to make small explosions inside his piano. Honsinger worked with the great pianist in Europe, with Steve Lacy, Lol Coxhill, and Louis Moholo among them in the European free jazz community — which, in the '70s, was thriving as far away as Florence, Italy. Honsinger found a home there in 1978 for a number of years. Working with the more extreme experimental Gruppo Du Improvisazione Nuovo Consonanza (Improvisational Group for New Consonance) members Giancarlo Schiaffini and Gianluigi Trovesi. Having worked with many groups and ad hoc improvisation setting through the years, interests in theatre, dance, and opera influenced his performances considerably. . Born in New England, the cellist Tristan Honsinger studied at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. By the '70s, the Trans-American had moved to Amsterdam and formed the Instant Composers Pool with drummer Han Bennink and radical pianist Misha Mengelberg. With this avant-jazz group, his music transcended the classical conservatory background he had and he began to incorporate wild, free improvisation, jazz, and European folk music into his cannon, not to mention a kinship with Bertolt Brecht theatre, which would put an edge on performances and recordings that take on experimental strategies, some of which include what could be considered violent attacks on the instrument. Here he would find a kinship with Cecil Taylor, who also liked to make small explosions inside his piano. Honsinger worked with the great pianist in Europe, with Steve Lacy, Lol Coxhill, and Louis Moholo among them in the European free jazz community — which, in the '70s, was thriving as far away as Florence, Italy. Honsinger found a home there in 1978 for a number of years. Working with the more extreme experimental Gruppo Du Improvisazione Nuovo Consonanza (Improvisational Group for New Consonance) members Giancarlo Schiaffini and Gianluigi Trovesi. Having worked with many groups and ad hoc improvisation setting through the years, interests in theatre, dance, and opera influenced his performances considerably.
Top Albums |
1. Company 5
| 2. Baboon
| 3. Adventure In..
| 4. Double Indem..
| 5. Call me us
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Top Songs |
| Name | Album | Time | Price | |
1. | EP / TH / AB-1 | Company 5 | 6:15 | $0.99 | |
2. | SL / AB-2 | Company 5 | 4:29 | $0.99 | |
3. | Pre-Echo | Double Indemnity | 6:55 | $0.99 | |
4. | Out-Take B | Double Indemnity | 9:25 | $0.99 | |
5. | Out-Take F | Double Indemnity | 9:43 | $0.99 | |
6. | Out of the Hole | Adventure In the Looking Gl.. | 2:52 | $0.99 | |
7. | Alice Dancing At the Wonderland | Adventure In the Looking Gl.. | 3:19 | $0.99 | |
8. | Beware the Jabberwock | Adventure In the Looking Gl.. | 4:08 | $0.99 | |
9. | Down the Rabbit-hole | Adventure In the Looking Gl.. | 6:38 | $0.99 | |
10. | Of Whores and Pebbles | Adventure In the Looking Gl.. | 4:25 | $0.99 | |
11. | Omama McGowran | Adventure In the Looking Gl.. | 22:09 | Album Only | |
12. | Bondly Yours | Adventure In the Looking Gl.. | 5:21 | $0.99 | |
13. | Impossible No Eggs! | Adventure In the Looking Gl.. | 5:29 | $0.99 | |
14. | Why? | Adventure In the Looking Gl.. | 5:59 | $0.99 | |
15. | Franz Schubird | Adventure In the Looking Gl.. | 4:30 | $0.99 | |
16. | Imitation of Life Side One | Double Indemnity | 21:22 | Album Only | |
17. | Say Hello to the Cello | Double Indemnity | 3:45 | $0.99 | |
18. | Stolen Time | Double Indemnity | 2:19 | $0.99 | |
19. | Imitation of Life Side Two | Double Indemnity | 17:53 | Album Only | |
20. | LS / MR / DB / TH / AB / SL / EP | Company 5 | 26:01 | Album Only | |
21. | SL / AB-1 | Company 5 | 10:06 | Album Only | |
22. | EP / TH / AB-2 | Company 5 | 1:42 | $0.99 | |
23. | Father | Baboon | 2:48 | $0.99 | |
24. | Mother | Baboon | 5:22 | $0.99 | |
25. | Brother | Baboon | 4:24 | $0.99 | |