The A.R. Penck LP Discography

The Deep Digging; The Incantations;

The Inspirations; All These Words...

As information on these limited, private issue LPs is so incredibly sketchy, I'd be extremely grateful if anyone who actually has copies in hand would contact me with details. I have conflicting titles from different sources on some releases. Personnel, track titles and durations, release dates, session dates, etc. are hard to come by. I'm also looking for scans of cover and back cover images, photocopies and scans of liner notes, and tapes, especially of any titles w/ William Parker present. --RL

• The subject's face.
• A.R. Penck Bio
• Another A.R. Penck Bio
• Yet another A.R. Penck Bio, this one seemingly more extensive and writ in unintelligible (to me) German. Translation of additional details would be most welcome.
• Frank Wollny Bio
• Available Penck LPs & CDs at avantgart.com

I welcome notice of any of the Penck vinyl recordings for sale. If I am not personally able or willing to buy what you have to offer, I can certainly put you in touch with collectors and researchers who are looking for many of these LPs. Of particular interest are any recordings featuring Frank Lowe and Butch Morris-- and of course the William Parker appearance on "Going Through".

LP Title; [ alternates ]

1. GOSTRITZER
2. KUNSTHALLE BERN [ Konzert Bern / Free Jazz]
3. BASS SOLO
4. AFRIKA PARANOIA [ Hinter der Wüste sterben die Gespenster / JAZZ ROCK ]
5. 4mm
6. 3+1
7. 3+2
8. ISLE IN THE OCEAN [ 5 ]
9. WESTKELLER 2
10. BLACK HOLE
11. BILLI UNDERGROUND
12. BRISTOL CONCERT
13. CATCH THE DOLLAR
14. PIANO SOLO
15. WESTKELLER 3
16. ST. ETIENNE
17. BE COOL IN MUNICH PART 1 [ Konzept Raum Alptraum ]
18. BE COOL IN MUNICH PART 2
19. BE COOL IN MUNICH PART 3
20. BE COOL IN MUNICH PART 4
21. BE COOL IN MUNICH PART 5 / UNRELEASED
22. BE COOL IN MUNICH PART 6 / UNRELEASED
23. BE COOL IN MUNICH PART 5 ( unpublished )
24. BE COOL IN MUNICH PART 6 ( unpublished )
25. GOING THROUGH
26. ROYAL ACADEMY
27. FAWE STREET [ TTT Live! / Konzert Basel ]
28. CONCERT IN DERRY
29. TTT LIVE IN DUBLIN
30. TTT LIVE IN EDINBURG
31. LÜPERTZ IN AMSTERDAM [ TTT mit MARKUS LÜPERTZ / Konzert in Amsterdam]
32. BUTCH IN HACKNEY
33. KREUZBERG
34. CAMBRIDGE
35. RUN WITH THE COWBOYS
36. ENDLESS JAZZ
37. NEW YORK SITUATION
38. JEANNE LEE [DON'T FREEZE YOURSELF TO DEATH OVER THERE IN THOSE MOUNTAINS]
39. TTT LIVE IN WEIMAR

CD

• HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD
• OSTMIV WESTHREPP / BEI HELGE
• PRAYER FOR INGO
• CONCERT IN ULM
• SESSION
• BREKER
• THE NEW TTT
• STADTGARTEN
  with an IMAGE of the "Free Music Corp. IV" Poster.
• o.t. on the road von der goldküste zum Kohlenpott - O.T. Gerichtsstr. 23 Hamburg

• Audio-Arts Catalogue / VOLUME 6 NUMBER 2 & 3, 1983
• Die Rache der Erinnerung / ZickZack Records 1984
• 84.06.01 / Various Artists: Rising Tones Cross / a Jazzfilm by Ebba Jahn
  William and Patsy Parker Ensemble / Scenery by A.R. Penck

PENCK LPs:

A.R. Penck: GOSTRITZER 92

1. Einzug des Kellers
2. Ta Ba Ti Ti Ba
3. A+B = O
4. frih Jazz
5. soul soul
6. Gostritzer Str. 92
7. Die Damen an die...

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A.R. Penck: Konzert in der Kunsthalle Bern: Freitag, 14. August 1981 [KUNSTHALLE BERN / FREE JAZZ]

1. Kowald Trio I

LP Cover	LP Back

A.R. Penck: Kontrabass und Mini Synthesizer Harmonix 1980

1. Kontra Bass Solo
2. Mini Synthesizer Harmonix

LP Cover	LP Back

Open Gatefold	Penck Cover Autograph

Label Side 1A	Label Side 1B	Label Side 2A	Label Side 2B

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Hinter der Wüste sterben die Gespenster und Afrika Para noia [Hinter der Wüste sterben die Gespenster / JAZZ ROCK]

1. Hinter der Wüste sterben die Gespenster / JAZZ ROCK
2. Afrika Para noia / ARCHAIK-FRI-JAZZ

LP Cover	LP Gatefold

Label Side 1A	Label Side 1B	Label Side 2A

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Die Geschichte der 4 1983

1. Westkeller
2. Endstation

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: 3+1 1983

1. Nachtfahrt
2. Vision

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: 3 + 2 = XXX

1. We Met Frank and Butch in Town
2. Our Sound Unity

LP Cover	LP Back

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: 5 [ Isle in the Ocean ]

1. xtrmpnieee
2. N.Y. Situation I
3. Isle in the Ocean
4. N.Y. Situation II

Frank Wollny (guitar)
Heinz Wollny (bass)
A.R. Penck (drums, Cover Art)
Frank Lowe (sax)
Billy Bang Walker / as credited (violin)

{Primary Source: info and images via George Scala; Gerhard Mittenhuber correspondence 05.11.02}

LP Cover	LP Back

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: WTLSKREEEL [ Westkeller 2 ]

1. CRHDU DNU CHDRU
2. sccniee oiiftnc

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Through the Black Hole

1. Through the black hole
2. Berlin Berlin

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: London Underground with Billi

1. London Underground with Billi
2. Experiment 2
3. Duo 1
4. Duo 2
5. Duo 3

LP Cover

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Bristol Concert

1. Bristol Concert
2. Dialog I
3. Abschied

LP Back & Cover (Anyone with a better image for this?)

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: New York, New York [ Catch The Dollar ]

1. New York, New York!!
2. Catch the dollar!
3. Proof and search!

LP Cover	LP Back

A.R. Penck: Piano Solo AR Penck

1. Piano Solo in N.Y.
2. Piano + drums
3. Bad Homburg

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: LLTWKRSEEE 3 [ Westkeller 3 ]

1. Westkeller 3

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Le mur de Saint-Etienne

1. Le mur de Saint-Etienne
2. Good morning rock

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Be Cool in Munich / Live in Concert, Part 1

1. Be cool in Munich / Part I/1
2. Be cool in Munich / Part I/2

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(On all Munich LPs)

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Be Cool in Munich / Live in Concert Part 2

1. Be cool in Munich / Part 2/1
2. Be cool in Munich / Part 2/2
3. Be cool in Munich / Part 2/3

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A.R. Penck: Be Cool in Munich / Live in Concert Part 3

1. Be cool in Munich / Part 3/1
2. Be cool in Munich / Part 3/2

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Be Cool in Munich / Live in Concert Part 4

1. Be cool in Munich / Part 4/1
2. Be cool in Munich / Part 4/2

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Be Cool in Munich / Live in Concert Part 5 / UNRELEASED ?

1. Be cool in Munich / Part 5/1
2. Be cool in Munich / Part 5/2
3. Be cool in Munich / Part 5/3
4. Be cool in Munich / Part 5/4

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Be Cool in Munich / Live in Concert Part 6 / UNRELEASED ?

1. Be cool in Munich / Part 6/1
2. Be cool in Munich / Part 6/2

A.R. Penck: Going Through

1. Going Through
   Part One [:]
   Part Two [:]

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Royal Academy

1. The Royal Academy music performance I
2. The Royal Academy music performance II

Bob Flag (sax)
A.R. Penck (piano)

Frank Wollny (guitar)
Heinz Wollny (bass)
Louis T. Moholo (drums

{Primary Source: The Web}

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: TTT Live! Konzert Basel

1. First Gig Studio Fawe Street
2. What about JAZZ today!

LP Cover	LP Back

A.R. Penck: Die Rache der Erinnerung (works by Jörg Immendorf, A.R. Penck, Martin Kippenberger, Werner Büttner & others)

1. Intro
2. Goin up the country
3. Billy beat it
4. Bang bang
5. Nobody knows you
6. Rock on
7. One & one is one
8. Yuppi du
9. Little red book
10. Sexual healing
11. Sympathy for the devil
12. Drei Lilien

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: LIVE! A Concert in Derry

LP Back & Cover (Anyone have a better image for this?)

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: TTT Live in Dublin

LP Cover

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: TTT Live IN Edinburgh (Academy of Art) [The Northern Darkness]

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck + Markus Lüpertz: Konzert in Amsterdam

1. Konzert in Amsterdam
2. Konzert in Zurich

LP Cover by Markus Lüpertz !!!

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Butch in Hackney

1. Can I Ask You A Question?
2. Unknown Fractals
3. Spring Dog In Hackney
4. Subconscious Remembrance
5. Together And Against Each Other
6. Cold Red
7. Old Party At Night

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A.R. Penck: Kreuzberg trennt / Im Keller in Wien

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Live in Cambridge

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Frank Wright - Run with the Cowboys

1. Run with the Cowboys
2. Do You Like It
3. An Other Day

LP Cover	LP Back

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Endless Jazz

1. Endless Jazz
2. After 997

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Aspects of the NY.NY.NY. Situation

Aspects of the NY.NY.NY. Situation
1. 1 [:]
2. 2 [:]
3. 3 [:]
4. 4 [:]
5. 5 [:]

LP Cover	LP Back

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Jeanne Lee [Don't Freeze Yourself to Death Over There in Those Mountains]

1. Don't Freeze Yourself to Death Over There in Those Mountains
2. Sorry, Brother

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: TRIPLE TRIP TOUCH Live In Weimar

1. Free Jazz (Coleman)

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PENCK CDs:

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Holywood Blvd. Concert / Malibu-experiment / Frank Wright

1. Beach (Wollny, Morris, Penck) [19:26]
2. L.A. (Morris, Wollny, Penck) [28:22]
3. Homeless (Penck, Wollny Lüpertz) [22:11]

4. Malibu Experiment (LBM,FW,ARP,ML) [10:55]
5. Piano Solo (Penck) [11:04]
6. Trio Malibu (ML,ARP,FW) [14:23]
7. Malibu Duo (Wollny, Morris) [5:05]
8. Swop (LBM,FW,ARP,ML) [7:59]

9. Wartesaal [16:34]
10. Deutsche Bank [8:32]
11. Haus Blitz [20:41
12. untitled [20:36]
13. untitled [3:35]

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A.R. Penck: OSTMIV WESTHREPP / BEI HELGE

CD Front Cover	CD Back Cover
CD Inlay Interior	CD Inlay Exterior

CDs 6004 & 6005

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Prayer for Ingo

CD Cover	CD Back

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Concert in Ülm

1. title ? [71:48]

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Butch Morris Connection: Session Recession

1. Session [75:50]
2. Recession [69:26]

Frank Wollny ( ? )
A.R. Penck (drums)
Butch Morris (trumpet)
W. Morris ( ? )
Chancey ( ? )

CD Cover	CD Back

A.R. Penck: Arno Breker wundert sich

CD Cover	CD Gate

TTT featuring A.R. Penck: The New TTT

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TTT featuring A.R. Penck: Jeanne Lee + G. Hampel und TTTT - Stadtgarten Koeln

CD Cover	CD Back

Image courtesy German Art Server Ltd., and is for sale at ExtraLot.com.

A.R. Penck: o.t. on the road von der goldküste zum Kohlenpott - O.T. Gerichtsstr. 23 Hamburg

1. Gerichtsstr. 23 am 4.III.1993
2. Hamburg am 23.X.1992

• Audio-Arts Catalogue / VOLUME 6 NUMBER 2 & 3, 1983, Double issue, 2 Cassettes + 16pp booklet :::
  Part 1 - Cassette 1
  Interviews with: Rose Garrard &Maggi Hambling. Music & Comment by Glenn Branca, soundworks by Susan Hiller Liliane Lijn, Sharon Morris & Sonia Knox. Music: Richard Strange, A. R. Penck, Art School Bands. Sound on Sound: New tapes & records received. (2 x A)
  (Part 2 - Cassette 2) NEW YORK REPORT
  Soundworks by Wendy Chambers, Joan La Barbara, Annea Lockwood. Interviews with John Cage, Steve Rogers, Mary Tierney, Edward Koch, Christopher Price, Roselee Goldberg, Bob George. Music by Kazoophony and ads by Charlie Morrow. (A)
  
  

Various Artists: Rising Tones Cross / a Jazzfilm by Ebba Jahn
William and Patsy Parker Ensemble

1. William Parker interview [0:50]
2. A Thousand Cranes Opera (excerpt) [1:05]
3. William & Patsy Parker interview [4:45]
4. A Thousand Cranes Opera (excerpt) [5:40]
5. William & Patsy Parker interview [2:10]
   The video contains the excerpts above [14:30 total] beginning at 32:00 in. --RL

Ricardo Strobert (as; fl)
Masahiko Kono (tb)
Wayne Horvitz (p)
William Parker (b)
Dennis (sic) Charles (d)
Lisa Sokolov (voc)
Jeanne Lee (voc)
Ellen Christi (voc)
Patsy Parker (dance)
Maria Mitchell (dance)
Carol Penn Muhammed (dance)
Frank Boyer (dance)
Keith Dames (dance)
A.R. Penck (stage scenery)

"...and did you know he played on the festival at C.U.A.N.D.O with his own band? ...drums..." --Ebba Jahn, correspondence 02.06.13

This video is available from FilmPals.

{Primary Source: Rising Tones Cross; date via NY Times Sunday 84.05.27}

• ARS Electronica 1986 [PART 01], Linz, Austria / Line-up included Triple Trip Touch with Penck (drums), Markus Lüpertz (piano), F. Wollny (guitar), and H. Wollny (bass).

Third Festival of Free Music Sound Concentration

1. Details ??? [ : ]

Detail of 25038: The Secret Book of Jazz, PENCK, A.R., 1987, $2,250.00.
Comprised of 9 steel blocks. Loose in the original metal container, fastened with screws. Cologne and New York: 1987.
One of the more interesting "object books." Penck's homage to Jazz consists of nine plates, each engraved with the name of a celebrated Jazz musician and a symbol of his or her music: Jeane Lee's voice, Frank Wright's sax, Billi Bang's bass, and Dennis King Charles's drums are all represented here in original designs by Penck, a leading figure of the Fluxus movement. One of 30 copies, signed by Penck."

The subject's beautiful face :::

Image courtesy Rotary Club Emden.

A.R. Penck :

• 1939 / October 5 born in Dresden (Germany)
• 1959 / First studio doing painting and music
• 1968 / He was taking the artist name a.r. Penck (the name of a German scientist) from his name Ralf Winkler.
  First exhibition in M. Werner Gallery
• 1972 / He joins Kassel Documenta
• 1975 / Exhibition "Penck Mal TM" in Bern Switzerland
• 1976 / First free jazz concert in Dresden
• 1978 / Experimental music concept with the musician Frank Wollny
• 1979 / First record "Afrika Paranoia"
• 1980 / Leaving East Germany to Cologne
  Rembrandt Prize of the Goethe Foundation
• 1981 / Meeting for a new concept with Frank Wollny in Kerpen near Cologne
• 1983 / a.r. Penck and Frank Wollny moving to Hackney London East End
  Foundation of TTT and touring in Europe and USA
  They met Louis Moholo in London, recording "Royal Academy"
  Part of the [Sound Unity] Free Jazz Festival in New York
  They met Frank Wright, Dennis Charles, Frank Lowe, William Parker, Jeanne Lee, Butch Morris in town, beginning a stream of recordings
  
• 1984 / He is painting "Quo Vadis Germania" in the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
  Part of the XLI Biennale di Venezia
• 1985 / Art Prize of the town Aachen
• 1988 / Retrospective exhibition in Berlin National Gallery
• 1989 / Painting in Los Angeles
  Exhibition in F.Hoffmann Gallery
  In Santa Monica recording with Frank Wollny, Butch Morris, Tylon Barea, Markus Lüpertz
• 1990 / Back to Germany touring and recording in Europe with Frank Wright and Frank Wollny
  From this time on TTT has a basic center in Heimbach Haus Schönblick, Germany
• 1991 / After Frank Wright's death in Heimbach, TTT took Alan Silva in the band
  Exhibition of the paintings "The Year 1989" in M. Werner Gallery
• 1993 / The sculpture "Delphy Helitroph" is shown in Luxemburg
• 1995 / Penck quit his membership of TTT and moved to Ireland
  He is still working as an artist and professor in the Academy of Art in Düsseldorf.

From www.CULTUREGUIDE.gr :

• Born as Ralph Winkler in 1939, the young A.R. Penck was strongly shocked by the bombing of Dresden and the almost total destruction of his city. From 1961 on, he started painting some Weltbilder (Pictures of the World) haunted by images of cavemen. In 1969, he took the fictitious name of A.R. Penck (borrowed from the geographer Albrecht Penck originating from Dresden, glaciation specialist).
  
  He finalized a pictorial language composed of elementary signs and symbols. In 1970, he defined in his publications the concept Standart ("a picture one can perceive and imitate"), to clarify the philosophical meaning of his iconography. Then he started painting black and white canvases filled with entangled hieroglyphs. In 1973, under the name of Mike Hammer, he realized some more abstract gestural series in black and white.
  
  At the beginning of the eighties, after the dismissal of his East German nationality, he chose the exile and became one of the key figures of the Neo-Expressionism. He went then back to his archetypal characters in very big formats and in colorful canvases. Penck currently lives and works in Berlin, Hamburg and Dublin.

Frank Wollny :

• 1948 / Born in Blankenburg Harz
• 1968 / After school study of forestry in Tharandt
  Playing guitar in an amateur band
• 1972 / Working as professional musician
• 1974 / Study of music at the Highschool in Dresden
• 1976 / Experimental music with actors and painters
• 1979 / Foundation of theatre on 3 levels with the drummer Endrik Moll and various other musicians
  Starts recording with Penck: first record "Afrika Paranoia"
• 1982 After leaving East Germany for Athens he moved back to West Germany
  He met Penck in Cologne where they discussed a new concept about TTT as a band
  Recording 3+1 in Bad Homburg West Germany
  TTT starts touring at this time in Europe
  Recording 4mm with drummer Detlef Kessler
• 1983 / Moving to London Hackney East End
  Working in a studio as painter, sculptor, musician in Fawe Street
  He met Butch Morris in Berlin at the Free Jazz Festival
  Foundation after the new concept of TTT with a.r. Penck, Heinz Wollny, Frank Wollny in New York
  Recording "Royal Academy" with Louis Moholo and "Isle in the Ocean" with Frank Lowe and Billi Bang
• 1984-88 / TTT was touring with Frank Wright in Europe
  In between they did experimental work in the studio in London
  [Many] special events like Munich Theatre Festival, ICA Free Jazz Festival in London, Pori Finland, Free Music Berlin, Kitchen Workshop in New York with Bill Dixon and Rashied Ali, Jeanne Lee, Butch Morris
  Recording in some studios in New York with Dennis Charles, Frank Lowe, Billi Bang, C Sharpe, Coon Alberts, L.Ellis, Frank Wright, Peter Kowald
• 1988-89 / They moved to Santa Monica in an atelier in Venice
  They did experimental music, painting, sculpting, photosessions
  Concerts and recordings with Anna Homler, Markus Lüpertz, Tylon Barea and Butch Morris
  Penck and Wollny went up to see Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart) in Trinidad California
  In the end of the year Frank Wollny and Frank Wright moved back to Heimbach Eifel in Germany
• 1990 / Frank Wollny was creating an Art Centre
  TTT as a conceptional unit, what it meant, the place, exhibition, performances and music took place in Haus Schönblick
  After Frank Wright's death the homage of Frank Wright became the biggest event of the year
  The bass player Alan Silva became the new T
  Monthly events happened with different artists and musicians like Paul Lovens, Peter Kowald, Rûdiger Carl, Conrad Bauer, Gunther Hampel, Butch Morris, Wilber Morris, Bobby Few, Kidd Jordan, Noah Howard and many others were part of the events
• 1999 / Frank Wollny moved to Vlatten (vlatten@t-online.de)
  TTT became a new face: the basic band is now Kidd Jordan sax, Jesus Caneloni sax, Markus Lüepertz piano, Louis Moholo drums, Frank Wollny bass.