Machine Gun

Artist: Peter Brötzmann Octet
Label: Fmp Germany
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 4014704000248
ASIN: B00000JONY

Release Date: 1999-05-06

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Tracks:

Machine Gun [Second Take]
Machine Gun [Third Take]
Responsible [First Take]
Responsible [Second Take]
Music for Han Bennink

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Customer Reviews:

the "punk" of free jazz.......2007-02-21

This could be what Ornette Coleman might have sounded like if Steve Albini produced him.

This is complex noise music - and like watching a master's grappling match - rather than boxing.

Machine gun is honestly, nothing like a machine gun's rhythmic clock - but instead, more like the impact the bullets might have, with all their shrapnel, and destructive power.

It is abstract art - it is molecules in motion - it is dynamics, it is even chaos.

enjoy!

Overwhelming.......2006-06-07

I'll rhapsodize much less than other reviewers. But I will say that I own quite a bit of music and to some degree have become jaded to new sounds/ideas. Boy, when I heard this, I was knocked back on my heels. For a non-electric group, this is some of the densest, aggressive, confounding music I've ever heard. And it's not all bluster either - there are moments of humor and real beauty. Not for the faint of heart but soooo rewarding for those that find these things intriguing. A MUST buy.

An amazing and intense record.......2005-08-17

From the loud and rapid-fire saxophone honks that begin Machine Gun until the last beaten piano key of Music for Han Bennink, this album is simply incredible. I bought this cd thinking that it would definitely take me a while to get used to it and understand it, but I was pleasantly surprised when I found it was actually enjoyable.

While this album is indeed free jazz, for some reason it seems to have a less noisy quality than other free jazz i've heard. Don't get me wrong, it is mostly noise. But something in the way the instruments are used and the interaction between them really makes this cd amazing. The noise of the saxophones and other instruments take on different harmonic meanings. By that i mean there are multiple different tones that appear seemingly out of nowhere.

Another thing that makes this album amazing is that its very, very complicated. It's hard to tell what was planned and what wasnt, and there are constant changes of style and instrumentation. I tend to think of it as a Naked City predecessor in that aspect. Probably the most shocking but pleasing parts of the album are the instances when the musicians actually start to sound like they are playing... well... jazz.

If you are at all interested in the avant-garde, improvisation, whatever, you need this. It's a very interesting experience to hear what these minds created in about an hour-long time frame. Brilliance.

this is as far as good music gets!.......2004-05-05

This is a record I knew I would like even before i heard it. Sometimes it sounds like freejazz, sometimes its more like noise (or industry maybe). It is extreme without loose its humanity. Thats why I think this is the end of my music taste's cul-de-sac. I dont like electonic noise (like Merzbow for instance) because it has no soul. This "noise" however, is pure emotional and when I hear it, I almost cry and laugh at the same time.

Let it bear repeating..........2002-12-30

...this is a genuinely unique recording. Listening to it will make you feel uncomfortable. It hurts. The screams sound far too much like human screams and the band, when it plays in unison, is simply frightening. It is also a very European document, rooted in 20th century history, creating violence and grim humour in a musical form to which Coltrane had brought ecstasy and enlightenment.

But you should hear it nonetheless.

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