Full Blast (Brötzmann/Pliakas/Wertmüller) / Black Hole
Album: Black Hole   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Full Blast (Brötzmann/Pliakas/Wertmüller)   Added:Jul 2009
Label:Atavistic/Truckstop Audio  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2009-09-27 Pull Date: 2009-11-29 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Nov 29 Nov 22 Nov 15 Nov 8 Oct 4
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Recent Airplay
1. Nov 24, 2009: Memory Select
Protoneparcel
4. Nov 05, 2009: orangeasm
Protoneparcel
2. Nov 17, 2009: Memory Select
Suzy
5. Sep 29, 2009: Memory Select [new Tuesday time!]
Atlas
3. Nov 12, 2009: stela of the necropolis of naqada referring to a prolonged famine
Black Hole

Album Review
Fo
Reviewed 2009-09-27
FULL BLAST: Black Hole
Atavistic, 2009

FREE JAZZ - Full Blast is reed maniac Peter Brötzmann along with bassist Marino Pliakas and drummer Michael Wertmüller. Many loud intense freakouts, but it ain’t just noise. Brötzmann is killer on saxes & clarinets, Wertmüller juices it up with high-energy ramblings, and Pliakas, when he isn’t an indistinct rumble, adds complex murmurs.

* * * * | Try any track!

1. 2:26 – mad sax skronk over fast fast drum beats and thick bass mud
2. 3:40 – rolling drums, squirrelly bass under a slow, thin clarinet line
3. 6:27 – very fast: high squealing horn in a rolling/tumbling rhythm, no let up
4. 3:42 – rending sax & rhythmic scribbles: really goes to town, then gets quiet
5. 3:00 – slow solo sax start, picks up a heavy thudding beat, dies
6. 6:26 – hard ululating wail becomes a swirling chase; cuts like a Ginsu knife
7. 10:35 – calm intro, near-silent drone slowly rises to thunderous tribal drums & keening clarinet, falls into thick pulse, surges for massive ending!
8. 4:27 – drum feature: big rolling beats lead the way for tight horn spirals
9. 2:32 – starts insistent & crazy, drops way down and quietly scurries away
10. 5:57 – firm, argumentative sound, drops to quiet squeal, steady chatter
11. 3:07 – solo sax tones, then spinning with drum rimshots; rises and falls

[ Fo ] 09/27/09

Track Listing
1. Black Hole   6. Atlas
2. Suzy   7. Protoneparcel
3. Ellis   8. Higgs
4. Alice   9. Teilchencrash
5. String   10. Large Hadron Collider
  11. Quarks Up/Down