We Can’t Stand the Quiet

If you want to stick with the Abe, you oughta check out his duet with Takayanagi, *Mass Projection* (available on the Inconstant Sol blog). (Make sure you don’t pick up *Gradually Projection* accidentally.) *MP* is insanely blistering throughout and will not let you down if loudness is what you’re after.

It’s not jazz-related, but Chinese guitarist Li Jianhong’s “San Sheng Shi” is amazingly loud and awesome. Haven’t heard the whole 51-minute piece yet, but there’s an excellent 16-minute excerpt from it archived at Motel De Moka.

http://www.moteldemoka.com/2008/03/06/dark-stars-in-the-dazzling-sky-pt9/

Definitely agreed w/ Brent on ‘Mass Projection.’ The following is self-indulgent, but here are ten album/track combos in no particular order…a little heavy on sax, Zorn specifically (further reflection upon a list of ten would probably yield a more even distribution of artists/instruments).

1) Otomo Yoshihide – Monochrome Otomo – 02 – Turntable Feedback I
2) John Zorn – 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 9: The Classic Guide to Strategy, Vol. 3 (what a title!) – 01 – The Fire Book: One
3) Merzbow – 1930 – 02 – 1930
4) Ned Rothenerg – The Lumina Recordings – 11 – Kakeai (feat. John Zorn)
5) John Zorn – 50th Birthday Celebration, Vol. 7: Hemophiliac (w/ Mike Patton/Ikue Mori – any track)
6) Evan Parker – Conic Sections – 01 – Conic Section 1
7) Sonore (Vandermark/Brotzmann/Gustafsson) – No One Ever Works Alone – 01 – Elements of Refusal
8) Arthur Doyle – Alabama Feeling – 01 – November 8th or 9th – I Can’t Remember When
9) Brotzmann/Nilssen-Love/Gustafsson – Fat is Gone – 01 – Bullets Through Rain
10) Weasel Walter – Revolt Music – any track

and of course, two that wouldn’t fit in the ten

11) Cline/Shoup/Corsano – Immolation Immersion – 01, 02 – Lake of Fire Memories, Immolation Immersion

12) Anthony Braxton/Wolf Eyes – Black Vomit – 02 – Rationed Rot

(bonus: in the (live) track intro, one of the Wolf Eyes asks Braxton “Anthony – whaddya wanna hear man?! ‘Leper War’ or ‘Black Vomit?!’”

“BLACK VOMIT!” is his unhesitating, jubilant rejoinder.)

Hopefully, at least one of these is available for your incus-inundating pleasure.

Let me second that recommendation for “San Sheng Shi”. It is fine stuff, but I wouldn’t necessarily use it for shifting earwax. For that, you need something a bit stronger, a bit more raw. You need a bit more gravel. Basically, what you need is some early Borbetomagus.

I dunno, Machine Gun still does it for me. Maybe Hijokaidan if you can find some: their “Planeticket” from Dry Lungs V is here.

(Make sure you don’t pick up *Gradually Projection* accidentally.)

I agree, but only from the perspective of getting your noise fix — “Gradually” is great, just not that noisy.

Mats Gustafsson’s “The Education of Lars Jerry” makes a pretty good racket at least at the beginning.