Hello again! Now that most folks feel things are looking up, let's ignite this anniversary special to light up your Sunday even brighter.
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I was gonna wait til next year for this one's 40th, but who knows where I'll be in a year -- heck, if I'll be -- so we are jumping the gun for its 39th today.
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It features the first touring configuration of Bill Laswell's seminal Material project, joining four towering forces atop a mighty rhythm section for the first onstage salvos in the long, serrated history of this band.
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You get Laswell, artillery guitar grand marshal Sonny Sharrock, violin deity Billy Bang and Michael Beinhorn, now known more as a producer but back then an electronics and synth mastermind.
Plus, Curlew instigator George Cartwright, whom I'll cover here someday.
Overall it's a pounding hour of Punk Jazz, with Sharrock and Bang in particular going totally buck wild, as they were often wont to do.
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Material
Jazzfest Berlin
Metropol
Berlin, Germany
11.8.1981
01 Upriver
02 Unauthorized
03 untitled improvisation
04 Conform to the Rhythm
05 Disappearing
06 Heritage
07 Reduction
08 Metal Test
Total time: 1:01:05
George Cartwright - saxophones
Billy Bang - violin
Michael Beinhorn - synthesizer, tapes & vocals
Sonny Sharrock - guitar
Bill Laswell - bass
David T. Louis - drums
Lewojazz/Tom Phillips remaster of a digital capture of an 11.17.2017 Kulturradio rebroadcast
372 MB FLAC/November 2020 archive link
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