This one was already in my collection as well. It sure as hell ain't easy listening. I think this is an important genre stretching record. It may be worth pointing out that this record predates Peter Brötzmann's Machine Gun by four years. I mentioned Keith Rowe on the experimental guitarists thread. Anyway, this is a brutal record. It gives the listener far less to hang on to than something like Ornette's Free Jazz. Now, on our last discussion I got in trouble for comparing Private/Public to Hole. I do think there is some, and hopefully more valid, reason to compare this record to The Magic City by Sun Ra. They both push the boundaries of free jazz and have a kind of random nature and they both came out in 1966. Without a doubt this was some of the hippest stuff of that time. AMMMusic is one of the great moments of 20th C music.
|