Recorded May 1968 Release date 1968 | Producer Jost Gebers Label FMP/Free Music Production | |
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Genres Free jazz, Avant-garde jazz, Noise music Similar For Adolphe Sax, Spiritual Unity, Chicago Octet/Tentet, Ascension, Little Birds Have Fast Hearts N | ||
Machine Gun is the second album by jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann, released on the Bro label in 1968, later reissued on the FMP label in 1971. In 1990 FMP issued the album on CD, adding two previously unreleased alternate takes. In 2007, Atavistic Records reissued the album again as The Complete Machine Gun Sessions, adding the only live recording of the title piece (previously issued on the Fuck DeBoere CD). In 2011 the label Slowboy reissued the first studio take again on vinyl in tip-on style cover with 3 color silkscreen.
Contents
Machine gun second take the peter brotzmann octet
Reception
The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the release four out of four stars and placed it in its "core collection" of jazz albums. The review states that while "the recording is crude," the three saxophonists "fire off a ceaseless round of blasting," resulting in "fearsome power."
1991 Re-release
- "Machine Gun" (Second Take) – Brötzmann
- "Machine Gun" (Third Take) – Brötzmann
- "Responsible" (First Take) – Van de Ven, Van Hove
- "Responsible" (Second Take) – Van de Ven, Van Hove
- "Music for Han Bennink" – Breuker
Personnel
Songs
1Machine Gun (2nd take)14:57
2Machine Gun (3rd take)17:13
3Responsible (1st take)10:00