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includes two live cuts from that seminal early group at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival. Opening with 'Machine Gun,' recorded in March of 1968, Peter Brotzmann and his group blast away at what was to become the landmark recording a few months later in the studio. At this time, the group included an additional saxophone player, Gerd Dudek. This version finds itself a bit more playful than Machine Gun's version, not quite as menacing or brooding; the structure is the same, here favoring the longer take, but the interplay and overlap between the instruments is not as urgent. What it lacks in attack, however, it makes up for in improvisation, enthusiasm, and sheer genius of the composition. The second cut, 'Fuck De Boere,' is itself an audio tornado, buzzing around relentlessly until it breaks doC
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