Volcanic Tongue Catalogue

Peter Brotzmann/Albert Mangelsdorff/Gunter Sommer
Pica Pica

Unheard Music Series ALP258CD

CD
£12.99


Latest instalment in the Unheard Music Series’ on-going raid on the FMP vaults takes the form of this wild 1982 set with Brötzmann's sandpaper blues (here on alto, tenor, baritone and tarogato) matched with Mangelsdorff’s always heavy trombone attack and Gunter ‘Baby’ Sommer’s omni-directional drums/horns/appliances. Recorded during the Jazzfest Unna at Stadthalle on September 18th 1982. A pretty singular trio and another ear-ripping bomb from UMS/FMP.

Peter Brotzmann Clarinet Project
Berlin Djungle

Unheard Music Series

CD
£12.99


Excellent document of a one-time Brotzmann big-band featuring six clarinettists, including Brotzmann, John Zorn, UK legend Tony Coe, Ernst-Ludwig Petrowsky, Louis Sclavis and JD Paran and featuring bassist William Parker, drummer Tony Oxley, trumpeter Toshinori Kondo and both Alan Tomlinson and Johannes Bauer on trombone. Live at Jazzfest Berlin, 1984.