{"title":"Elliott Sharp","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElliott Sharp is a highly accomplished musician, known for his expertise in experimental music. Born on March 1, 1951 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, Sharp's musical journey began at a young age when he started playing the piano. However, his interests soon shifted towards the clarinet and guitar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSharp's passion for science led him to build his own effects boxes for his instruments. This curiosity also fueled his fascination with various genres of experimental music including contemporary classical, free jazz, and sophisticated rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his career, Sharp has collaborated with renowned musicians such as *John Zorn*, *Wayne Horvitz*, *Bobby Previte*, and *Butch Morris*. His music draws inspiration from an eclectic range of influences including Coltrane, Zappa, Xenakis and more.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ere-guitar","title":"Ere Guitar","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn August 2023, guitarist Elliott Sharp met with fellow guitarists Sally Gates and Tashi Dorji in his Manhattan recording studio. Ere Guitar celebrates the great art of the guitar, played by musicians who seek new paths and create the current sound of the day. \"The line-up of the album Ere Guitar initially ties in with its predecessor Err Guitar with Mary Halvorson and Marc Ribot. Here, too, we meet a trio chosen by Elliott Sharp, whose focus is on spontaneous improvisation. Although the compositional element was greater on Err Guitar and reduced to a minimum on Ere Guitar, these two albums are in no way complementary. Together they recount the search for the unexpected, the unheard, for a formal and tonal complexity that develops from the encounter of three creative musicians\",  writes Harry Lachner in the liner notes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intakt","offers":[{"title":"CD.","offer_id":50384244343115,"sku":"2205218","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/test_cbbef903_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726291942"},{"product_id":"shamballa-2","title":"Shamballa","description":"\u003cp\u003eShamballa is the 1993 collaboration from jazz drummer William Hooker, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), and composer Elliott Sharp. The release features Hooker performing duets with each musician. Hooker and Moore’s performance is littered with bursts of feedback and distortion, while the collaboration with Sharp is characterized by a more electronic sound, building a sense of technology. Limited to 1,500 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Org Music","offers":[{"title":"Black LPx2","offer_id":50530433368395,"sku":"2019499","price":39.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/418467232017_360_9ed60814_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728078974"},{"product_id":"die-groiste-fugue","title":"Die Groiste Fugue","description":"\u003cp\u003eDie Größte Fuge, an opera by Elliott Sharp, features bass baritone Nicholas Isherwood and the Asasello Quartet. After 1815, Beethoven was beset with problems: physical, emotional, financial. Retreating into \"\"fugue\"\" states, he has visions, celestial and horrific, not hallucinations but visitations from a parallel reality of marvellous inventions, gleaming ships in the air, unheard musics, carnage beyond belief. Emerging, he translates these scenes into a music that stretches the rules to the verge of destruction. The resultant work, \u003ci\u003eDie Größe Fuge\u003c\/i\u003e, is considered the first 20th century string quartet. Sharp created a libretto from letters and writings of Beethoven as well as taking elements from \u003ci\u003eDie Größe Fuge\u003c\/i\u003e as seed materials for extrapolation, randomisation, and recombinance. Beethoven is presented as a disturbed and effecting figure, the tortured genius. The performers play Sharp's score, both apocalyptic and ecstatic, with incredible intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Infrequent Seams Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50779463582027,"sku":"2010596","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/650076547499_fdf74373_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1731004899"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_174fbe96_thumbnail_4096_6f9ae08c-0b74-4a15-b794-8ae75456ac56.jpg?v=1726291922","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/elliott-sharp.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}