| Brötzmann, Peter & Fred Lonberg-Holm / Brain Of The Dog In Section, The |
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| Album: | Brain Of The Dog In Section, The | Collection: | Jazz | |
| Artist: | Brötzmann, Peter & Fred Lonberg-Holm | Added: | Dec 2008 | |
| Label: | Atavistic/Truckstop Audio | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2009-01-11 | Pull Date: | 2009-03-15 | Charts: | Jazz |
| Week Ending: | Mar 8 | Mar 1 | Feb 22 | Feb 15 | Jan 25 | Jan 18 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 12, 2012: | Jazz Catharsis Section 1 | 4. | Feb 20, 2009: | Memory Select Section 2 | |
| 2. | Mar 06, 2009: | Memory Select Section 3 | 5. | Feb 13, 2009: | Memory Select Section 1 [excerpt] | |
| 3. | Feb 27, 2009: | Memory Select, sfSound edition: Le Quan Ninh & Michel Doneda Section 1 | 6. | Jan 24, 2009: | Music Casserole Section 3 |
| Album Review |
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| Wedge Reviewed 2008-12-31 | ||
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Improv free jazz, intense duets between Brotzmann's sax and Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello and electronics. Granted, Brotzmann is usually loud, fast, and forceful, but here he sounds freshly on the attack (and this guy thinks so too: http://www.freejazz.org/?q=node/2616). Lonberg-Holm keeps up with an array of tough-handed plucking or sawing on the cello. The ferocity here is cool to hear, but do they overdo it at the expense of real musical communication and storytelling? I enjoyed the album, but here's a dissenting opinion: http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2008/11/on-nature-of-musical-substance.html 1- (13:52) Squealing and brash opening gives way to slower big/loud lines. Goes through a choppy electronics/sax interlude before a blowout ending of intense/fast sax and hard cello bowing. 2- (19:39) Less direct, more sophisticated. Opens with careful but aggressive stepping: Brash scribbles that still leave plenty of white space. After 6 minutes, it calms into a rough rustle. A quieter middle section lets sad cello get more of the spotlight, creating nearly a classical drone. Some solo spaces for cello/electronics and tunefully screechy, restrained sax. Then, the fierceness returns for the coda: Full blast sax and guitar-amp-distorted cello (free jazz goes rock star). Glorious, tense ending. 3- (4:22) Fast, with a slightly bitter tone that's different from the other tracks. Mood-wise, it's another hard frontal assault. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Section 1 | 2. | Section 2 | |||
| 3. | Section 3 | |||||