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Br: Medicina
by Rex Butters
Medicina further documents Peter Brötzmann's volcanic creativity, here in a trio with veteran collaborators Peeter Uuskyla on drums and Peter Friis Nielsen on electric bass. While recent recordings have shown the Teutonic Tornado varying his attack with a relatively gentle touch, Medicina is pure balls-out Brötzmann, except for a ballad and his lyrical intro to “Hard ...
Br: Medicina
by Alexander Vogel
Peter Brötzmann is a German saxophonist who has explored the intense and dissonant worlds of jazz. Many critics claim that his pinnacle recording was with his octet in the 1968 session Machine Gun, one of the loudest, most intense and just plain frightening jazz albums of all time. Even the loudest metal bands cannot match its ...
Br: Berlin Djungle
by Jerry D'Souza
Peter Brötzmann has that unique gift of getting together musicians who are compatriots in his mission to forge unusual permutations and sounds and continuously revitalise free music. His is an ongoing adventure that gets him to explore unusual avenues and, even where it seems that the path has been trodden in the past, he leaves behind ...
Br: Medicina
by AAJ Staff
Peter Brötzmann delivers strong medicine. It took me a while to properly appreciate that after having been Machine Gun ned nearly to death back in the day by the German reed player's 1968 octet recording on FMP, an experience I earnestly recommend to newbies but not at all to the faint of heart. Brötzmann taught me ...
Br: Tales Out Of Time
by Mark Corroto
I always liked but never quite understood Neil Young's lyric that went something like this: “...are you ready for the country, 'cause it is time to go..." To call someone “country" is to say they are simple or at the very least not urbane. But I think Neil Young was speaking more of organics and getting ...
Br: Never Too Late But Always Too Early
by Derek Taylor
Die Like a Dog: a name and invective that acts as a slap in the face to the mores of subtlety and passivity. Peter Brötzmann originally convened the group as a channeling vessel for the spirit of Ayler. Their music: lamenting the legendary saxophonist?s tailspin into spiritual decay and destitution. Their credo: a staunch defiance of ...
Br: Balls
by Derek Taylor
Balls veritably screams Sixties-style counter-culture confrontationalism. Check Bennink's gaunt pale frame, shirtless and head shaven close, standing sternly with his mates on the front cover. Or Brötzmann's hunched visage on the reverse, tenor clutched tightly in vice-grip, caught in mid-renal shout. Then there's Van Hove, sleeves rolled up, bent over the innards of his piano, almost ...
Br: Shadows
by Micah Holmquist
Peter Brötzmann is an impressive figure in more ways than one. To begin with, there is his status as a legend. From his 1968 debut Machine Gun to the present day, the German saxophonist has long stood for creativity and challenging conventions. Since then he has played with many of the great avant-garde masters such as ...
Br: Shadows
by Mark Corroto
Peter Brötzmann is reunited with Japanese drummer Shoji Hano and guitarist Keiji Haino for a European tour last March. This live date recorded at Wels, Austria is about as raw and true a musical expression as it gets. Brötzmann has recorded and worked with each musician separately. He recorded Dare Devil (DIW) in 1991 with Hano ...
Br: Stone/Water
by Michael A. Parker
If you already have the 1998 3-CD release by the Brötzmann Chicago Octet/Tentet on Okka Disk, then reading this review is a waste of time: what more could be said? On the other hand, if you don't yet have that mammoth document of free jazz: life is short-what are you waiting for? Actually, this tentet is ...
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