Eine kleine Nichtmusik
Giordano Bruno | Wherever I am, I am. | 06/16/2008
(2 out of 5 stars)
"I'd be the first to say I don't know squat about pop music. See, I did the van Winkle thing and slept through forty years of it, from the twist to hip hop, so when my Philadelphia correspondent alerted me to something called Krautrock, I thought I oughta catch up. I went straight to my local CD shop to lookfor a sample, but not wanting to offend any ethnic sensibilities, I asked the ring-nosed fellow at the counter for some "far out German s**t, dude, y'know what I mean." Pica Pica is what he sold me.
I rushed home and popped the CD into my player. [At this point it would be most appropriate to stop reading and listen to the amazon samples, unless you're already a devoted fan of Brotzmann, Mangelsdorff, and Sommer...] No sooner had I ceased writhing on the floor and stretched my hand toward the volume knob when my teenage son came storming into the room, shouting "Turn that s**t off or I'm taking away your allowance for a month!"
My father used to torment me with German polka music when I slept too late as a boy. Now I have means to pass the favor on. Rache!"
Brotzmann channels the Gods
Geoffrey R. Balme | raleigh NC | 02/25/2008
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Do I need to tell folks that this is free jazz? Not Krautrock!
Or rock at all, nor does it have a melody, nor a motif, nor a hum-able tune. It's not laid out in 4/4 time, with a chorus, or a verse, or one of those things pop music folks call a Bridge.
This is FREE JAZZ. Meaning - plays as you will with all the gusto you can muster, and is more like listening to the sounds of a jungle on fire, than it is like listening to mama's lullabies.
As such the second piece on this 3 track cD is my fave with a long drumming intro leading into the horns adding patterns of their own.
Ornette Coleman, John Coletrane, and Peter Brotzmann amazing musicians all."
Track Listings (3) - Disc #1
