Adelhard Roidinger
Computer & Jazz Project I LP

The official repress of Adelhard Roidinger’s contemporary jazz/fusion masterpiece, originally released in 1984. An extremely talented and eclectic musician, Adelhard Roidinger’s creativity couldn’t be contained by the walls of music. His compositions for computers, graphic designs and geometric studies are a testament to his wide array of interests and artistic expressions.This fascination for computers is in full display in Computer & Jazz Project I. 

Adelhard believed that machines are vital tools for the development of humans. By using the machines, one can refine his own self, absorbing into their mind the possibilities that such tools unlock. It’s with this belief that Computer & Jazz Project I was created: fusing acoustic instruments, that Adelhard had mastered through his career, with new machines and computers. A timeless masterpiece that unleashes the artist’s creativity, enhanced by the machines of which he is now enamoured.

Adelhard Roidinger (28 November 1941 – 22 April 2022) was an Austrian jazz musician (bass, electronic), composer and computer graphic designer. Since 1969, Roidinger has played double bass with Joachim Kühn and Eje Thelin and afterwards with Karl Berger and from 1971 to 1975 in Hans Kollers Free Sound. He founded the European Jazz Consensus with Alan Skidmore, Gerd Dudek and Branislav Lala Kovačev. After additional education at IRCAM in Paris, his activity field of music reaches to performances with symphony orchestras and solo concerts with computer and visual components

NEW / Released in 1984 / Reissue 2023

Tracklist:

A1 Nachdemsturm

A2 Kontrabad

A3 Acid Rain

B1 Khartres

B2 Kreisform

B3 Mazedonien Funk

B4 Milchglas