PETER BROTZMANN
Crumbling Brain: Full Blast + Friends
SEALED Vinyl LP. Okka Disk. Stereo. COVER & VINYL: MINT still sealed, never played, mild corner wear.
PETER BROTZMANN / KEIJI HAINO / PETER EVANS / MARS WILLIAMS / MARINO PLIAKAS / MICHAEL WERTMULLER
Recorded in 2008
SIDE 1
Crumbling Brain / Battle of Visions / Have Your Eyes
SIDE 2
Pull Up! Pull Up! Terrain! Terrain! / Elegance of Darkness / Deathbop
DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
A new Lp of wimp-killing free jazz from the mighty Full Blast ensemble
headed up by legendary reedsman Peter Brotzmann. The last album from
Full Blast was a punishing assault of Ayler-influenced skronk and
speed-jazz aggression tempered by some phenomenal emotive playing from
the group; here, the band is joined by guest guitarist Keiji Haino from
Fushitsusha for a live performance that was captured in Berlin in 2008
and documented here on this high quality vinyl only release. Once again,
these players deliver nuke-strength improvised jazz that's a godsend
for us fans who long for the days of Last Exit. The group includes the
crack rhythm section of Marino Pliakas on electric bass and Michael
Wertmüller on drums, and Peter Evans (trumpet) and Mars Williams (reeds)
join in for the performance. A worthy follow up/companion to Black Hole for sure, and allows us to witness Full Blast journeying into the realm of heavy psychnoise.
Crumbling Brain's a-side starts with the thrashing aggro jazz
eruption of the title track which boils over for nearly seven minutes
before the group shifts into the ten minute piece "Battle Of Visions",
where an extended sax solo is delivered in staccato bursts as the band
winds into a tumultuous percussive workout and smoke-clouds of scorched
electric feedback. This is followed by "Have Your Eyes", showcasing
frantic skittering bass and cymbal work, and rapid fire sax scuttling
around at top speed, peaking out into a firey eruption at the end.
The b-side begins with "Pull Up!Pull Up!Terrain!Terrain!", a smoking
furnace of heavily distorted freeform guitar blurt and bone-rattling
feedback clawing and crawling over pounding polyrhythmic drumming and
thunderous low end bass. It lurches into some noisy free-thrash and
mangled guitar driven on by Wertmuller's pummeling, almost metallic
double-bass drumming, and Haino whips out some crazed shredding over the
violent car crash blowout at the end. "Elegance Of Darkness" combines
throat singing with the muffled sound of breath being pulled and scraped
through the body of the sax, creating this seriously creepy wheezing
sound, and then becomes a kind of death rattle as screeching horns
flutter in panic. The album closes with the lengthy jam "Deathbop",
Wertmuller whipping up another cyclone of percussive energy and speed, a
foundation for Haino's skronky guitar.
A smoldering, vicious slab of hardcore improv jazz. Comes in a high
quality tip-on pasteboard jacket, and pressed on 180 gram vinyl.
© CRUCIAL BLAST
***STILL SEALED***NEVER PLAYED***