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FLYING LUTTENBACHERS, THE  Live AT WNUR  CD   (ugEXPLODE)   13.98
Live AT WNUR IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE FOR ORDER

Luttenbacher's drummer and visionary Weasel Walter just resurrected this incendiary live jam from 1992, the first recorded document of the band and the only recording to feature the Luttenbacher's original lineup of avant-garde jazz vet Hal Russel on tenor sax, Weasel Walter on drums and clarinet, and Chad Organ on tenor sax. These 8 jams are a manic outpouring of loud, squealing sax destruction accompanied by Weasel's spastic punk-jazz drumming that splatters the room with blastbeats and drumkit-falling-down-the-stairs improvisation, hitting every part of the drumkit (including sawblades and other pieces of metal that he attached to the kit) all at once, all the time, an incessant, awesome percussive assault. The sax blowing on this disc is boisterous, joyous honking and gasping, squalls of bleating brass slithering serpentine through the studio and out through your speakers, and among the eruptions of formless sound there are recurring melodic themes that appear and reappear. Heavy shit for real, some of the best, most-fun-to-listen-to brutal free jazz/punk playing I've ever heard. For those of you that like your jazz improv loud, noisy, and burly a la Bormetomagus, Zorn's hardcore influenced stuff, and late 90's Iceburn, you gotta hear this. Pretty funny too, with lots of between-song (and even mid-song) banter, with Russel egging Weasel on during one particularly epileptic blastbeat seizure, and a killer moment where the trio stops suddenly during a song and Weasel asks his bandmates if it's time for his drum solo; upon confirmation, he proceeds to completely freak out on the kit. Awesome. Seriously, there aren't many free jazz albums that I think of as being genuinely "fun" listens, but this one fits the bill. Includes zonked renditions of Albert Ayler's "Witches And Devils" and "Ghosts", too. Booklet contains liner notes from Weasel Walter describing this era of the band.