Peeni Waali
The Eve of Peeni Waali
2CD: Mensch Music, 1999/2000

Tracks & Credits:

CD 1:

1. I’m Still In Love with you (Alton Ellis) 4’26"
vocals, bass & guitars: Dennis Bovell / drums: Daniel Spahni / reeds: Steve Gregory / brass: Shirley A. Hofmann / keyboards: Fizzè

2. Beautiful Lady ( Fizzè) 3'30"
vocal & hi-hat: Phil Santschi / snare drum: Gilles "Dizzi" / Rieder / bass: Robbie Shakespeare / sax: Dean Frazer / brass: Rico Rodriguez & Felix "Deadly Headley" Bennet / ukulele & accoustic guitar: Cédric Vuille / el. guitar: Laurent Viennet / percussion: Leon "Scully" Simms / keyboards: Fizzè

3. I ain’t pay (copyright control) 2’28"
vocal & trombone: Rico / programming: Fizzè

4. MongolSka (Selenge / Fizzè) (2’04")
hammered dulcimer: Selenge / vocal: Djingis Khan / cello: Raphael Zweifel / bass, flute, picolo, ukulele, organ, guitar & bass drum: Fizzè

5. Tier (Bob Dylan) 5'07"
drums: D. Spahni / bass, keyboards, flute & vocal: Fizzè / guitars: John Kpiaye / trombone: Peter Thoms / sax: S. Gregory

6. I’m the Man in the Dark Sedan (Snakefinger) 3’00"
drums: D. Spahni / cello: R. Zweifel / vocal: Heinz Vetsch / guitars: Hubert Osterwalder / baritone sax: S. Gregory / tuba & euphonium: S. Hofmann

7. Colorace (Fizzè) 3’50"
vox: Taj Mahal / primal cry (8.8.99): Andrì de Bros / children’s voices: Guy de Bros, Sandra Burri & Angela Bösch / accordion: Tobias Morgenstern / guitars: Rainer Rohloff / keyboards: Stefan Kling / quanun: Hossam Shaker / flute: Fizzè / the laugh: Lee "Scratch" Perry

8. Däne wo's guet got (Mäni Matter) 3’08"
drums & perc.: Dizzi / bass: Jean-Maurice "Momo" Rossel / keyboards, hunting calls & SwissGerman: Fizzè / Romansch: Linard Bardill & Jan Sedlacek / French: Albert Marcoeur / Italian: Marco Zappa

bonus tracks:
from the Vinyl Maxi 45 RpM Mensch AGR 003 - 1987 The Heart Beat Band feat. Rico, (produced by the Heart Beat Band)
9. Can’t Stop Rudie (Santschi / Lubello / Lubello) 3’54"
10. Crossroads (Santschi / Lubello / Lubello) 7’48"
11. Singing her Name (Millar / Lubello / Lubello) 4’00"
The Heart Beat Band (today 'The Madlighters') were:
drums & vocals: Ph. Santschi / bass: Anton Lubello / keyboards: Christina Lubello / lead guitar: L. Viennet / rythm guitar: Martin Millar / percussion: Mamadou / trombone: Rico

more bonus tracks:
12. Beacon of Hope (lyrics: Linton Kwesi Johnson, music: Fizzè & Dizzi) 5'38"
narration: LKJ / trombone: Rico / bass: D. Bovell / keyboards: Fizzè / percussion: Fizzè, Dizzi& D. Bovell / ukulele: C. Vuille / guitar: L. Viennet / milkpots:Pascal Cuche / Hammond organ solo: Jerome Van Jones / squeezebox: John "Alig" Pierce

13. More Nice Time (Fizzè) 2'47"
drums: D. Spahni / bass & guitar: D. Bovell / trombone: Rico / the captain: Lee "Scratch" Perry / jodel: Ligia Godinez, H. Vetsch & Fizzè / tuba, euphonium, trombone & fluegelhorn: S. Hofmann / baritone, tenor & alto sax: S. Gregory / hackbrett: Roland Schiltknecht / ukulele & vibrato guitar: C. Vuille / accordion: T. Morgenstern / balafon: Dizzi / keyboards: Fizzè

14. Rockaman Soul (traditional) 4'05" vocal, trombone & percussion: Rico / guitar: M. Millar / drums: Ph. Santschi / bass, keyboards & flute: Fizzè

CD 2:
1. Game 4'46"
drums: Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace / bass & ukulele: C. Vuille / guitar: Earl "Chinna" Smith / trombones: Rico / guitar solo: J. Kpiaye / Hammond B 3 solo: Barbara Dennerlein / keyboards: Fizzè

2. Andrìconnis (Fizzè) 4’01"
drums: D. Spahni / bass, keyboards & flute: Fizzè / guitars: J. Kpiaye / trombone: P. Thoms / sax: S. Gregory / trombone solo: Rico / trumpet: Eddie "TanTan" Thornton / violin: Johnny T.

3. Song for Bimbo (Fizzè- horns arranged by S. Gregory) dedicated to Valentina Pandin 3’20"
drums: Nico Loser / bass & keyboards: Fizzè / piano solo: S. Kling / hackbrett: R. Schiltknecht / el. guitars: H. Osterwalder / acoustic guitar: J. Kpiaye / soprano & tenor sax: S. Gregory / trombone: Peter Thoms

4. Basler Dep (Fizzè / T. Morgenstern) 4’29"
drums: D. Spahni / bass, piccolo & guitars: Fizzè / balafon & perc.: Dizzi / Hammond B 3 organ & accordion: T. Morgenstern / sax: S. Gregory

5. Emmentaler Dep (Fizzè - Dub by A. Lubello & C. Vuille) 5'551"
drums: "Horsemouth" / perc. & kbds.: Fizzè / bass, ukulele & guitars: C. Vuille / slide trombone: Rico / tuba, euphonium & valve trombone: S. Hofmann / reeds: S. Gregory / harmonica: Marc "Nof-Nof" Tourtchaninoff / sax solos: Dean Frazer

6. Still Love Dub (Alton Ellis) 4'49"
drums: D. Spahni / bass & guitars: D. Bovell / reeds & flute: S. Gregory / brass: S. Hofmann / keyboards: Fizzè

7. Satin Doll (Duke Ellington) 4'57"
drums: Baz Smith / bass & guitars: D. Bovell / perc.: Fizzè & D. Bovell / / trombone: Rico / Hammond B 3 organ: Jerome Van Jones / keyboards: Fizzè

8. Son of Rockaman Dub 2 (Fizzè – inspired by a traditional) 5'03"
drums: P. Santschi / bass, keyboards & flute: Fizzè / guitar: M. Millar / vocal, trombone & percussion: Rico

9. Blue Moon (Rogers/Heart) 3’03"
drums: "Horsemouth" / bass & rythm guitar: Fizzè / pick guitar: D. Bovell / Hammond B 3 organ: Georgie Fame / reeds: S. Gregory / accordion: T. Morgenstern

10. Hi-Life (Wally Badarou) 4’53"
shaker & darbouka: Dizzi / tenor sax: Michael "Bammie" Rose / the rest: Fizzè

11. Maxi Mali (Dennis Bovell) 6’00" drums: Dizzi / bass & guitars: D. Bovell / kbds. & sampling: Fizzè

bonus track:
12. (Hip) Hop Schwiiz! (Fizzè / Morgenstern) extended mix 6’36"
drums: D. Spahni / bass: Fizzè / darbouka: Dizzi / turntables: Maurice Nigg / beatbox: Philip Willi / accordion & clavinet: T. Morgenstern / hammond C 3 organ: B. Dennerlein / ukulele: C. Vuille / guitars: John Kpiaye / sax: S. Gregory

13. Bonus Medley: (demo/rough mix) 10’22"
a) God Only Knows (Brian Wilson) 1‘ 30"
drums: "Horsemouth" / bass & pick guitar: D. Bovell / percussion: "Scully" / Hammond C 3 organ: Alain Hovaguimian / piano & flute: Fizzè / alto flute: S. Gregory / backing vocals: The Beach Boys (sample from ‘Our Prayer’) / tuba, euphonium & fluegelhorn: S. Hofmann / accordion: T. Morgenstern / trombone: Rico / soprano sax: D. Frazer
b) Third Man Theme (Anton Karras) 1‘04"
drums: "Horsemouth" / bass & piano: Fizzè / hackbrett: R. Schiltknecht / Hammond C 3 organ: A. Hovaguimian / zither: Peter Nachbaur / acoustic guitar: H. Osterwalder
c) Dérive (Fizzè) 1‘17"
drums: "Horsemouth" / bass, m’bira & piano: Fizzè / bassoon: Sina Samia / cabassa: Dizzi / accordion: T. Morgenstern / trombone: Gerhard Lampert / hackbrett: R. Schiltknecht / lead guitar: H. Osterwalder
d) Viva la papa col pomodore (Nino Rota) 1‘21"
zither: P. Nachbaur / blown bottles & christal glasses: Fizzè
e) Brave Margot (Georges Brassens) 3’11" drums: D. Spahni / vocal & programming: Fizzè
f) I’ve got you under my Skin (Cole Porter) 1‘58"
drums: "Horsemouth" / bass & pick guitar: D. Bovell / alto sax: D. Frazer / trombone: Rico / Hammond C 3 organ: G. Fame / percussion: Fizzè

Arranged, recorded, mixed & produced by Fizzè
at the Mensch House, CH - 9476 Weite

After 'the Return...' I was still left with plenty unfinished tunes and many new ideas. Hence I decided to kick-off yet another 'sequel' of Peeni Waali (jamais deux sans trois!...), figuring I'd complete the round of this 12 year composition cycle as a kind of trylogy.

I realised there was too much music for one single CD. The culminating point would be a double CD then! Always learning from the past experiences (and/or critics), I wanted this time to offer one CD more song-oriented and the other instrumental like most of the previous material was.

Obviously new musicians were to cross my path. Again recording for Face Music, I met more people from Mongolia and the MongolSka was born.
While I was reworking an old rythm (from 1981!), I wanted to adapt a poem of Swiss troubadour Mani Matter. The idea to do it in the four national languages of our country brought in
Linard Bardill. While I was starting to communicate with French composer/musician Albert Marcoeur, the idea to have Marcoeur do the french part, became inevitable. Marcoeur came here and it was yet another fantastic encounter with a great gentleman and extraordinary wit, fun & charming poet. The italian part of the poem was done by Marco Zappa, also a musician/poet in his own right of the southern part of Switzerland, the canton of Tessin. The tune was ideal set some wicked instrumental part on top of the poem. And the occasion presented itself with the arrival of Sebastian Piekarek  who'd come here to do baritone and alto sax on Daniel Spahni's solo album.

I've always wanted to meet a trumpeter who played with Rico
Eddie 'TanTan' Thornton , so I took advantage of a stay in London (early 1999) to arrange a recording session that would also include violonist Johnny T. (from the Dennis Bovell Dub Band). At the same time, it was nice to meet Rico and Steve Gregory again and record some more with them. That session also brought in a new hornsman: trombonist Peter Thoms.

It was nice to rework some older rythms in that it made me see old aquaintances again. Such as Phil Santschi of the HBB, respectively the Madlighters who would voice a track. As much as the HBB's bass player Antonello Lubello, who made the cover of "The Return" came over when I remixed 'Elemental' for a pleasant dub-session.

Naturally, I'd include my pal Heinz Ventsch (one of the jodlers on Nice Time) to be featured as lead-vocalist this time. Heinz, a very knowledgeable melomane - running the great recordshop "Bajazzo" in Buchs/SG - introduced me to
Raphael Zweifel. Getting to know Raphael better, it was a pleasure to introduce him to Roland Schiltknecht for his "Tunsch" album.
Drawing the 'casting-net' closer, that is, more local, it was a great pleasure to discover I had a street neighbour who plays fantastic guitar and obviously I couldn't leave Hubert Osterwalder out of the project. As it happened so often, there were also 'last minute' ideas to finish a tune. That brought in bassplayer Walter Nigg and his son Maurice Nigg. Walter had made the great sleeve for the "Kulu" CD and Maurice already played turntables on the previous project.
And just before mixing the last tune, there was jet another player joining the club: Jack Frei, a pedal steel guitar player.

While I was 'next-door-neighbouring', it wasn't too bad an idea, to have Claudia Ackermann make up a new cover for the re-pressing of "The Return".

And last but not least - the internet being a great old friend finder - I relocated an old acquaintance, the wit and fun writer Jürgen Stark, a genuine fan in his own right who proposed to have Petra Stark make the design for the sleve of the Eve (tu piges?)...

Quelle: MenschMusic

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Last updated: 30. Dezember 1999
(c) Reinhard Braun
 
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