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A Super Group, if there ever was one

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Peter Brotzmann, the leather-lunged reedist from Germany and his group ‘Last Exit’ consisting of ubiquitous bassist/producer Bill Laswell (Herbie Hancock, Material & c) Sonny Sharrock (Herbie Mann, Miles Davis, Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast) and Ronald Shannon Jackson (Albert Ayler) live in Frankfurt in 1986.

Witness the carnage. Submit to the sonic assault. Destroy Communism (the pent-up aggression expressed with this music can only be an allegory for tearing down the Berlin Wall)

“Mr. Brotzmann, Tear down this wall!”

-Charles
Production Director