The Peter Brötzmann Octet - Machine Gun album

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.

Recorded in May 1968, Machine Gun captures some top European improvisers at the beginning of their influential careers, and is regarded by some as the first European - not just German or British - jazz recording. Originally self-released by Peter Brötzmann, the album eventually came out on the FMP label, and set a new high-water mark for free jazz and "energy music" that few have approached since. Brötzmann is joined on sax by British stalwart Evan Parker and Dutch reedsman Willem Breuker (before Breuker moved away from free music, his lungs were as powerful as Brötzmann's).

Peter Brötzmann, 2011. He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement but grew dissatisfied with art galleries and exhibitions  . The album Nipples was recorded in 1969 with many of the Machine Gun musicians, including drummer Han Bennink, pianist Fred Van Hove, and tenor saxophonist Evan Parker, plus British guitarist Derek Bailey. The second set of takes from these sessions, called More Nipples, is more raucous. This was released as the album Alarm. In the 1980s, Brötzmann flirted with heavy metal and noise rock, recording with Last Exit and the band's bass guitarist and producer Bill Laswell. Brötzmann has released over fifty albums as a bandleader and has appeared on dozens more.

Just 300 copies of the album were originally pressed for Brötzmann's own BRO label, before the FMP company (one of several European indies documenting new music in this period, of which ECM became the most famous) and later Atavistic took over distribution and eventually brought together live and studio versions. At the time, many thought this it was simply a wall of noise.

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Recorded in May 1968, Machine Gun captures some top European improvisers at the beginning of their influential careers.

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Peter Brötzmann on tenor saxophone, Minnesota Sur Seine, 2006. Peter Brötzmann at "Sonore" concert, Lviv, 14 Dec 2008. The album Nipples was recorded in 1969 with many of the Machine Gun musicians including drummer Han Bennink, pianist Fred Van Hove and tenor saxophonist Evan Parker, plus British free-improv guitarist Derek Bailey. The second set of takes from these sessions, appropriately called More Nipples, is more raucous.