peter brotzmann long story short box set cd

Tonic was a small room, but it played host to a lot of acts that used volume as a compositional tool: I saw Sunn O))) there, and Fushitsusha, and Borbetomagus, and Merzbow, and Khanate, and Blind Idiot God. Like their last release, 2018’s Rio, it’s a document of a shit-hot live show, in this case the final performance by anyone at the storied NYC venue Tonic, which closed for good in April 2007. Farewell Tonic, though, is as raw as it gets. Each of these is discussed below.įull Blast - Brötzmann’s trio with electric bassist Marino Pliakas and drummer Michael Wertmüller - has been active since 2004, during which time they’ve made eight records, almost all of which were recorded live, though some have involved heavy editing and after-the-fact processing, 2016’s Risc most of all.

(A quote from that interview - via a Bandcamp Daily feature - appears in Harald Kisiedu‘s book European Echoes: Jazz Experimentalism in Germany 1950-1975, which is excellent and highly recommended.) Brötzmann is relentlessly prolific, and has, as ever, a fistful of new or recent recordings available this summer: two different duos, a live album by one of his long-running bands, and a trio collaboration. Many of his albums have been discussed here over the past ten years, and he was the subject of episode 49 of the BA podcast.

The indefatigable Peter Brötzmann has been a favored subject of this site since its inception.

Peter brotzmann long story short box set cd