It took me long enough, but we've finally managed to get the entire available catalog of Borbetomagus releases on Agaric Records catalog in stock at the 'Blast. And for anyone looking for thee most brutal free jazz band on the planet, look no further: Borbetomagus, a Celtic word for "City Of Worms", three men locking saxophones and guitar noise together into a blast of monstrous improvised skree that takes the feeling behind the aggressive free playing of Ayler and Brotzmann and amplifies it into total fucking napalm. The core trio of sax players Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich and electric guitarist Donald Miller have been consistently bulldozing eardrums with their incendiary "snuff jazz" since the late 70's, and no one in the avant jazz/improv underground has ever come close to achieving the sheer cyclonic power of Borbetomagus. A host of their recording have been reissued recently, many with liner notes, and we've snagged everything that we could
from the guys so there's absolutely no excuse for any of you into brutal noise and improv to not fill out your Borbeto collection.
One of the few Borbetomagus albums to feature a bass player, Seven Reasons For Tears has the trio bringing in Adam Nodelman on bass, and the result is one of the group's most crushing, murderous sessions. Recorded in 1987, Borbetomagus were at this point fully enthralled with the power of their high-volume skree assaults, and the seven untitled tracks on Tears match their winding freeform skronk orgasms with a massive stream of low frequency and distortion. It's one of my fave albums of theirs, and was reissued by Agaric after the first release on the Purge/Sound League label went out of print; the booklet itself contains a review of the album that Byron Coley wrote for his Forced Exposure magazine that positions the disc as one of their most crucial slabs of radioactive snuff jazz. Highly recommended!