Black Bombaim & Peter Brötzmann - Black Bombaim & Peter Brötzmann (Lovers & Lollypops) 2016
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Despite being a prolific collaborator for the past fifty years, Peter Brotzmann doesn’t really need anyone else. That much is clear from the opening minutes of this collaboration with Portugese psyched-out rockers Black Bombaim in which Brotzmann stands alone and aloof, pouring out the howling ecstatic through his sax in maximum demon expulsion mode. He could have done this for the full 47 minutes of this exemplary release and still have left listeners reeling and battered. Still, when Black Bombaim make their dramatically blazing entrance they prove fully-fledged sparring partners more than able to hold their own. It brings to mind a possible past in which Brotzmann could have collaborated with Hawkwind in full blast space terror mode. One with which to blow away the winter blues.