Peter Brotzmann: Already started, need more!

Oh and "Guts" Brotzmann & Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler and Michael Zerang on Okka Disk is another stand out.

To be fair to Caspar, he only started performing publicly again in about 2010 after something like a decade away. When I saw him in 1995 (his trio, Caspar Brotzmann Massaker, was opening for Helmet and Girls vs Boys), he was fantastic, like a cross between Hendrix circa 1970 and the Jesus Lizard. I don't know what he's like now, but I was a huge Massaker fan back then and would definitely go if he played New York.

That Never Too Late... record is really, really good; Guts too.

It's a bummer so little of this music is available (or was ever available - stupid 90s!!) on vinyl. I have such a hard time dropping $30+ for a CD these days, and the idea of Brotzmann / Moholo / Miller on mp3 just doesn't seem very appealing.

Ah, just noticed that that Moholo / Miller trio recording IS on vinyl! Add to cart!

http://www.thewire.co.uk/images/artists/brotzmann__peter/cover345.jpg

Fantastic cover, and a really good article too.

It is a beautiful cover, best one for a while. Who wrote the story?

A friend of mine just told me that Brotzmann played some show for kids (!) not too long ago. Maybe in Texas?

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/36305_10151058348635753_540392369_n.jpg

It is a beautiful cover, best one for a while. Who wrote the story?

That was David Keenan, another opportunist effort from him

Oh gimme a break - "opportunist." God forbid the man pen a cover story. What a cad.

Anyway, very excited for this issue

Don't got a problem with the man's writing per se, quite the contrary, he's an excellent writer and this is a great feature. OTOH he does tend to ride the zeitgeist somewhat.

didn't realise brotzmann was 'the zeitgeist'

well that's the impression I'm getting at the moment

did he coin some labyrinthine new genre this time?

Listening to Machine Gun for the first time. WOW! Who'd have thought free jazz could be so... fun? I mean actual, non-academically fun. Moments in this sound genuinely anarchic and hilarious.

Actual machine guns are fun too btw.