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100
The sound of Machine Gun is just as aggressive and battering as its namesake, blowing apart all that's timid, immovable, or proper with an unrepentant and furious finality.
11y
do NOT play this in front of the hoes, there's a high chance they will be blown to smithereens
The History of The Albums – n°395
Let's imagine that I had to choose only one Jazz album (except Jazz-Rock) in 1968, my heart would lean without hesitation towards "Machine Gun" by The Peter Brotzmann Octet, not only for its avant-garde aspect, but especially because Jazz needed an album like this one that year. As I have already explained a few times in my previous episodes, but Jazz was going through a rather empty year in terms of releases in 1968, because it lacked the ... read more
Thank you @UltimateLifeFrm for the recommendation :)
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What the actual fuck did I listen to
Real talk. I'm lost with this one. I did enjoy it, but I don't know what to say. Machine Gun is probably the wildest album I have ever listened to. There's no rhythm, no structure, and no sense of cohesion. Everything just feels all over the place and freestyled, and it's weirdly... good? Because of how unpredictable this album is, it always leaves in suspense, ... read more
This album is not for the weak. This album is the free jazz stereotype but louder; this album is some of the best jazz I have heard. The Peter Brötzmann Octet did something I’ve never heard on a jazz album. This is the first noise album in my opinion, and while I might be overthinking this, I believe it is a very relevant critique on war, using three tracks to show different parts of war.
"Machine Gun," the title track, opens the album, and damn is it an opener. The song ... read more
I am such a big lover for making some instruments total way of chaos like this album. It's probably why I admired the musical of experimental, because they probably felt to make the professional way of what they are doing to release this album. People caught off guard, one day later, people dig it. It's very loud to my ears and I like it a lot. Just sounds cool for me. Ten out of ten
Sheer madness. Brotzmann and co. evoke the horrors of war through these cacophonous, noisy, hideous free jazz experiments with skittering drums, slamming piano keys, and squealing horns. It's absolute chaos with how everyone's playing like they just dropped acid and are all in their own nightmares. It's not something I would put on to enjoy, but I have to respect the guts and ferociousness of the record. The performers clearly have a lot of talent that comes through despite the ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Machine Gun 17:16 | 93 |
| 2 | Responsible 8:17 | 89 |
| 3 | Music for Han Bennink 11:22 | 90 |
Total Length: 36 minutes
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2w
Fun fact: when asked what people would be surprised to find out he listens to, former president BILL CLINTON said, “Brötzmann, the tenor sax player, one of the greatest alive”. (This was 2001).
5mo
definitely has its moments where im engaged in whats going on and can tell what they were going for but more often than not im just passive to most of it