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1. #Machine gun peter brotzmann for free#
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#Machine gun peter brotzmann series#

The title “Machine Gun” has nothing to do with “obvious” political connections and vietnam war of the time etc etc… it is simply the nick name that Don Cherry was using for Brötzmann during those vibrant years. The Unheard Music series and Atavisitc Records have done well by releasing Peter Brotzmanns MACHINE GUN, a landmark in European Improv. And the fact that this IS how it originally came out! Put together by Brötzmann himself back in the day.īRÖ 2 … Legendary and for always the BOMB! FMP and Atavistic/ Unheard Music with bonus tracks and all.īUT… this is the one… the first silkscreened one… the feel. This music has been re- released a number of times… on vinyl on FMP and recently on another german label: A – music.

#Machine gun peter brotzmann free#

with 3 of the most hard hitting tenor players ever around… and it is a joy to hear the fantastic and very inspired Belgian piano player Fred van Hove in the middle of it all… in the eye of the storm… commenting and contra punctuating the music in way that only he can do.īrötzmann had early the vision of copying the 4 line of sax players in the Lionel Hamptons Big Band, playing in unison as a wall of sound.Īttempts to link this epic recording to Coltranes Ascension or Ornette´s Free Jazz is discarded by Brötzmann, that rather prefer to link his influences to Charles Ives, “Flying Home” by Lionel Hampton and Rock n Roll!!! It is a real treat to listen how the two bass players, Peter Kowald and the mighty mighty Buschi Niebergall, are playing together… moving the music forwards, with some amazingly creative drumming from drum maestros Johansson and Bennink, behind, over and under the ensemble!Ī very sax dominated sound, of course….

#Machine gun peter brotzmann full#

The interaction between the eight players are wild and full of energy in all directions. The music continues with some absolute amazingly grim and evil playing by especially Evan Parker, Willem Breuker and Brötzmann himself… the flow is immense!Īnd the “song” is over before you know it. It is a mindblowing experience to get into the free improvisations of the group at the beginning of the starting piece and after a while get transported out through the window, door and sealing at the same time at once- with that massive wall of noise that suddenly hits you like a hurdle of buffalos, mammuts and Alaskian ice trucks all at once… no other way to describe it. The first time you hear it… it is a schock… 2 nd time as well…. The start of the title track is just overwhelming. The Music that Brötzmann and his comrades were doing in combination with the raw, raaaaaaaaw sounds of the recording and the visuals of the cover made this the ULTIMATE classic of European free jazz! Even stout-hearted listeners will nearly be sent into hiding - much like standing outside during a violent storm, withstanding this kind of fierce energy is a primal thrill.Peter Brötzmann – Machine Gun, BRÖ 2, 33 1/3 rpm (GER), 1968 The years have not managed to temper this fiery furnace blast from hell it's just as relentless and shocking an assault now as it was then. With Willem Breuker and Evan Parker also on saxophones, Fred Van Hove on. The sound of Machine Gun is just as aggressive and battering as its namesake, blowing apart all that's timid, immovable, or proper with an unrepentant and furious finality. The players declare and exercise their right to bellow and wail all they want they both send up the stereotype of free playing as simply screaming, and unapologetically revel in it. While Brötzmann has played this powerfully on albums since, never again is it with a group of this size playing just as hard with him. Brötzmann leads this octet in a notoriously concentrated dose of the relentless hard blowing so often characteristic of his music. The rest of the group consists of drummers Han Bennink (Dutch) and Sven-Åke Johansson (Swedish), Belgian pianist Fred van Hove, and bassists Peter Kowald (German) and Buschi Niebergall (Swiss). Brötzmann is joined on sax by British stalwart Evan Parker and Dutch reedsman Willem Breuker (before Breuker moved away from free music, his lungs were as powerful as Brötzmann's).

#Machine gun peter brotzmann for free#

Originally self-released by Peter Brötzmann, the album eventually came out on the FMP label, and set a new high-water mark for free jazz and "energy music" that few have approached since. Recorded in May 1968, Machine Gun captures some top European improvisers at the beginning of their influential careers, and is regarded by some as the first European - not just German or British - jazz recording. This historic free jazz album is a heavy-impact sonic assault so aggressive it still knocks listeners back on their heels decades later.