like father, like son: peter and caspar brötzmann blowing each other's mind

his machine gun attack in 1968 was louder than war, it was harsh and vibrant, and it was punk before sid vicious was even born. here you can hear the german adolphesax-player peter brötzmann some twentytwo years later in bad coumpany and not accompanicked with/by the uncontrollable guitar noise of his son caspar. a morethanharmful and mindbending experience.

caspar and peter brötzmann recorded these pictures of lily live in a studio in brooklyn way back in august 1990. caspar in those days of course had is own freepunkfreakjazzband massaker, and peter brötzmann was freelanzanating and blowing his horn wherever he went. these recordings were released in abbreviatedited form as a longplayer on vinyl and in extended versions as a cd with two bonustracks. the tracklength documented on the cover is refering to the vinyl version, i added the running time of the cd-version in brackets.

in the download-file below you will of course find the slightly longer cd-version of these recordings, plus a bonustrack by the caspar-brötzmann-massaker i found on the mortar compilation.

so here we go-go:

01 - die, saurier, die 3:53 (listen directly)

02 - talk to the canoe driver 10:10

03 - last home 2:25 (4:39) (listen directly)

04 - little man in the boat 2:15 (5:42)

05 - doozandazzy 5:45 (4:30) (listen directly)

06 - yazzihamper 4:32 (5:00)

07 - witch hazel in the dark afternoon 5:02 (5:46)

08 - fette biester 5:50 (listen directly)

09 - tantarabobs 16:27

the bonustrack:

10 - the caspar-brötzmann-massaker - massaker 13:30

(caspar brötzmann guitar vocals / eduardo delgado bass vocals / frank neumeier drums / recorded live at ccam in nancy in 1990)

download the brötzmann experience

(mp3 / all scans included / direct download)

the peter brötzmann quartet live in schorndorf on the 8th of september 2008; recorded by the stuttgart postfluxus artist albrecht/d. on a defective taperecorder

to brötz = to play any instrument the way peter brötzmann would do. there may be better versions of this concert available somewhere on the net, but this is what the german post-fluxus artist albrecht/d. (you can hear him him coughing all through the recording, if you know how he coughed) saved on a defective tape with a defective tape recorder standing rather close in front of the band nextnear to the bass amplifier and this is what we found in his inheritance and we thought you might like to hate it. so there.

these wretched sounds were recorded live in schorndorf in germany at the manufaktur better known as the hammerschlag on the eighth of september 2008; you will get to hear a 50-minutes-improvisation featuring peter brötzmann on saxophones, toshinori kondo on trumpet, paal nielsson-love on drums and massimo pupillo on bass. the sound is rather loud and weird, and so it's a lot of fun.

the brötzmann quartet live in schorndorf

(mp3, click left to listen, click right to save)

die like a dog: peter brötzmann, hamid drake and william parker live in austin 2003

an audience minidisc recording that has been circulating amongst heartcore collectors for quite some time now. two cd-r, no cover art, no tracklist but 110 minutes of sheer and pure energy.

recorded live in austin texas 2003-05-10 you can hear peter brötzmann (reeds), hamid drake (drums) and william parker (bass). do i really need to say more? (on the next day by the way frank rubolino saw them in houston.)

download brötzmann drake parker
(mp3 / 256 kbps / 207 mb)

brötzmann, van hove, bennink. live in east berlin on the first of november 1974.

on saturday the second of november 1974 the trio of peter brötzmann (saxophones etc), fred van hove (piano) and han bennink (drums & devices) appeared at the total music meeting at the quartier latin in west berlin headlining together with michel waisvisz, hans reichel and the globe city orchestra. as far as i know no recordings of this event survived but a cd-r credited to "the peter brötzmann trio" from the previous day is circulating amidst heartcore collectors: and though it is not ultimately proven the trio you are about to hear playing live in east berlin on the first of november 1974 most likely was the eponymous trio of brötzmann / van hove / bennink and not "the peter brötzmann trio". and by the way: at the same time brötzmann /van hove / bennink played in east berlin on the first of november 1974 derek bailey, paul rutherford and the globe city orchestra appeared at the total music meeting in west berlin. what a night!

unfortunately the copy of the cd-r i got hold of did not include a cover, a tracklist or any additional information and some tracks / cuts / indices are weird. but the music is wonderful: just eight nameless improvisations most likely executed by brötzmann / van hove / bennink.

direct download
(mp3 / 256 kbps / 130 mb)