Wolfgang Dauner: The Oimels (remastered, 180g) [MPS]

Why you'll love it

MPS has remastered The Oimels and pressed it on 180g vinyl in a gatefold jacket. It catches Wolfgang Dauner at the point where European free jazz met psychedelia, with a Gershwin ballad and a Beatles song in among the originals.

This edition

• Remastered
• 180g vinyl
• Gatefold jacket

About the album

Wolfgang Dauner was one of the restless spirits of German jazz: a Stuttgart-trained pianist who led a trio on one of the early European free jazz sessions in 1964, started the jazz-rock band Et Cetera and later co-founded the United Jazz + Rock Ensemble with Albert Mangelsdorff, Charlie Mariano and Volker Kriegel. He recorded The Oimels with his quintet in July 1969 at the MPS studio in Villingen, in the Black Forest.

The tracklist tells you a lot about the mood. Originals with titles like "Take Off Your Clothes To Feel The Setting Sun" and "Dig My Girl" sit next to Gershwin's "My Man's Gone Now," a reworked "Greensleeves" and "A Day In A Life," which Dauner treats as a launch pad rather than a cover. It is playful, searching and very much of its year, in the best sense; 1969 had a lot going on, and Dauner seems to have been listening to all of it.

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Out August 14, 2026 on MPS, a reissue of the 1969 album.