Though Leo Records has previously documented Quartet (London) 1985 (1988); Quartet (Birmingham) 1985 (1991); and Quartet (Coventry) 1985 (1993), Burning Ambulance Music is proud to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the tour with this set of previously unreleased recordings from Liverpool, Sheffield, Leicester, Bristol, Southampton, Leeds, and Huddersfield.
…With a brazen logic all its own, Quartet (England) 1985 is not, by any means or definition, for those whose algorithms prescribe soothing puppy and kitten videos or languorous spa music. Maniacal, undaunted, unflinching, Quartet (England) 1985 place the brave listener in the eye of the cacophonous tornado fury that was Anthony Braxton, pianist Marilyn Crispell, bassist…
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ESP-Disk offering a recent, live capture of towering figures of avant-garde jazz and underground noise music who join forces in a combustible conference of splendid spontaneity. live at pioneer works, 26 october 2023 by Anthony Braxton and Wolf Eyes dryly denotes in its title the place and time of the occasion but there’s nothing parched about the music made there that night.
Anthony Braxton — the mastermind behind so many elongated intricate, creative opuses — still likes to just get on a stage and jam with cats a generation or two behind him, and they come in all shapes and sizes. The cats this time are Wolf Eyes, a prolifically-recorded legend noise band out of Detroit. The moniker originally applied to Nate Young alone when he started it in…