This quartet is truly a wild group of men. The trio of Peters on drums, bass and drums and the trombonist Johannes Bauer make a unique European improvisation music full of humor, rage and abstraction. This is the type of music you would expect from this group and it doesn’t stop from there. Brotzmann is the leader of the gang and his whining skeins filled with scalar fury infect all of the members. Bauer responds to his lines with a free form of counterpoint, and then turns the broken harmonic into an aural circus. Friis Neilsen, despite his short, clipped basslines, is the most independent. He has little to work with other than the “texture of rhythm” and is left on his own. He continues to play, reaching deep into his cymbals in search of ballast, and unleashing great heaving sighs and tom-tom thrashing above the scattered rim shots which punctuate trombone and saxophone. This is a long and exhausting exercise of free jazz tomfoolery at its best… allmusic
