Complete with shouting and animal calls, this number ranges from ambient-like textures to bombastic, split-second punches and involves every possible combination of instrumentation.
This was recorded live in 1970 and included the use of four trombonists and the perfectly experimental Derek Bailey on electric guitar. The second cut, "Fuck De Boere," is itself an audio tornado, buzzing around relentlessly until it breaks down a bit around five minutes in. What it lacks in attack, however, it makes up for in improvisation, enthusiasm, and sheer genius of the composition. This version finds itself a bit more playful than Machine Gun's version, not quite as menacing or brooding the structure is the same, here favoring the longer take, but the interplay and overlap between the instruments is not as urgent. At this time, the group included an additional saxophone player, Gerd Dudek.
Opening with "Machine Gun," recorded in March of 1968, Peter Brotzmann and his group blast away at what was to become the landmark recording a few months later in the studio. Finally released by Atavistic, Fuck de Boere includes two live cuts from that seminal early group at the Frankfurt Jazz Festival.
Not much has set the jazz community more on its collective ear as when Peter Brotzmann and the rest of his European free jazz associates recorded Machine Gun in May of 1968.