‘One of the all-time great records of improvised music from Europe. Period. Blisteringly hot. Uncompromisingly inventive. Staggeringly beautiful. And insanely rare. Originally issued in the mid ‘70s on FMP, featuring the legendary Schlippenbach Trio — with Evan Parker and Paul Lovens — joined by Peter Kowald.
‘Just the first track, an incredible twenty-plus-minutes burner called Range, is worth the price of admission — as punk rock as free music gets, it shows Parker’s spectacular capacity for high-octane blowing. Kowald adds a chewy, molasses bottom to the group, offsetting Lovens’ flinty metal, stick and skin and Schlippenbach’s hyper-focused intensity.
‘A stone cold classic of creative music. Remastered from original tapes.’
LP from Cien Fuegos.

A quartet with Evan Parker, Alan Silva, and Paul Lovens.

Incendiary large-ensemble music in the manner of Globe Unity.
Mani Neumeier contributes wild percussion to It’s Up; Peter Brötzmann squares off against a trio of trios — three basses, three pianos, three drummers —in Three. The most compositionally complex works are Schlippenbach’s: the title track and Turn 14.
Other participants include drummers Jaki Liebezeit and Sven-Äke Johansson, bassists Peter Kowald, Uli Trepte, and Buschi Niebergall, pianist Fred Van Hove, and saxophonist Gerd Dudek.