PETER BRÖTZMANN/JOHN EDWARDS/STEVE NOBLE – …The Worse The Better (OTO roku)
Dan Warburton, The WIREDoes the world need another Brötzmann album? Probably not, but as the inaugural release on Cafe OTO’s in-house high quality vinyl-only label, this one is cause for celebration. Recorded there – superbly well, too – during Brötzmann’s residency in January 2012, this is no frills straight-up free jazz, solos and all, pitting the Firebreather of Wuppertal against the might local rhythm team (yes, they can and do swing hard) of John Edwards and Steve Noble. All three are on outstanding form, from the opening yelp – when it comes to Big Bang beginning, nobody does it better than Brötzmann – to Edwards’s snarling drone 38 minutes later. Shame engineer Shane Browne slammed thos faders down so brutally: for once, you feel like joining in with the whoops and hollers of the punters.
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Hey man, why don't we make a tune... just playin' the melody, not play the solos...