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Track Listing
1. Bumble Rumble
2. Spooky Drums
3. Nerve Beats
| Details | | Producer: | John Corbett | | Distributor: | Alternative Dis. Alliance | | Recording Type: | Live | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Solo performer: Han Bennik (trombone, clarinet, drums, tabla, percussion, programming).
Producer: Peter Schulze.
Reissue producer: John Corbett.
Recorded live At Rathaus, Bremen, Germany on September 27, 1973.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
This is part of Atavistic's Unheard Music Series.
The Dutch percussionist Han Bennink is a jazz rarity: he's as comfortable with Dixieland and bebop as he is with free jazz. Bennink has played on Eric Dolphy's LAST DATE album and in contexts as diverse as Lee Konitz, Derek Bailey and Cecil Taylor. He has a strong, certain feel for swing, but can interact with instrumentalists in a heartbeat; his anarchistic live performance style falls somewhere between Ed Blackwell and the Three Stooges' Curly Howard. The confounding and exhilarating NERVE BEATS is a rare European Bennink album from 1973.
Here Bennink plays drums and percussion, as well as clarinet, trombone, electronics, and anything else within easy reach, one or two or more at a time. At times NERVE BEATS seems a good-humored, zany free-for-all, but, upon careful listening, structure, both implicit and explicit, appears. Percussive explorations give way to trance-like minimalist textures and rainforest evocations, with Bennink subtly layering melodic motifs, rhythm, and noise. What makes this challenging music such a joy is Bennink's madly mischievous yet amiable sense of humor, and his utter refusal to take either himself or his performance seriously. Han Bennink makes free jazz that's fun.
Industry Reviews
4 stars out of 5 - ...The percussionist explores some deep polyrhythmic grooves within a world of found sounds. Impatient and unpredictable, Bennink keeps the music fresh....astonishing and frequently mystifying the listener.
Down Beat (11/01/2000)
...A lively display....Bennik's impatience is a fantastic spritzer to other improvisers...
The Wire (12/01/2000)
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