Name: Noisy Silence - Gentle Noise
Brand: The Dave Pike Set

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

0215250MSW

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Black

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-03-11

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

4029759152507

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

0215249MSW

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4029759152491

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

The Dave Pike Set

Genre GB

Jazz

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MPS is a German jazz label that was founded in 1968 by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer. It started as a successor to SABA and quickly gained recognition for its exceptional sound quality. Often compared to the renowned Blue Note label, MPS became known as Most Perfect Sound.

From 1971 onwards, MPS releases were distributed by BASF and later by Metronome Records GmbH (renamed Metronome Musik GmbH in 1977). However, in 1983, due to declining budgets for recording jazz music, Brunner-Schwer shifted his focus to classical music and sold the rights of MPS to Philips. Eventually, the label found its way under Polydor's ownership and its recordings were re-released by Motor Music starting from 1993.

In Hamburg, Universal Jazz Germany took over the MPS archives in 1999 while Speakers Corner Records released various vinyl reissues. After ten years since Brunner-Schwer's passing, Edel acquired MPS's back catalogue from Universal on January 7th, 2014. Now led by Andreas Brunner-Schwer and Friedhelm Schulz, the team has returned to Villingen where they continue recording new material.

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The long-awaited new edition of The Dave Pike Set's absolutely unique 1969 debut album, Noisy Silence - Gentle Noise. The American vibraphonist Dave Pike had already become famous in the 1960s through his work with the likes of Herbie Mann, Bill Evans and Paul Bley. Recorded in Europe, the combination of Pike's vibraphone style and the electrical as well acoustic guitar and sitar play by the German Volker Kriegel made the Dave Pike set an instant success.

Noisy Silence - Gentle Noise is an ideal title for this record. Dave Pike's and Volker Kriegel's music is as light as it is loud, eloquent as it is silent, romance is hidden behind its power.

"Mathar" became the most popular track on the album, which is known far beyond genre boundaries and still streamed millionfold.

Noisy Silence - Gentle Noise

Music GB