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Christopher Forbes | Brooklyn,, NY | 11/03/2002

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is the seventh album by the Flying Luttenbachers, a variously membered Chicago group led by Weasel Walter. Water started out in various punk bands in the city, but in the early 90s was struck by the improvising of little known Chicago master avant-gardist, Hal Russell. The first FL album featured Russell, but he left for other projects before his untimely death in 1994. Then for a while the Luttenbachers included Ken Vandermark, though contrary to popular opinion in other reviews, Vandermark only plays on two albums...Constructive Destruction and Destroy All Music. Since this time, Weasel Walter and his various bands have drifted from the punky free jazz of the earlier albums to more of a thrash/punk/jazz. Think John Zorn without the post-modern quotations. The album in question is quite good in it's noisy, punked-out way. It's definately an album in transistion. Many of the cuts feature ace free-jazz cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm on electric cello. Others feature a more definate rock element with the brilliant Chuch Falzone on guitar. Most of these cuts were recorded and then subject to Weasel Walters manipulations. Walter plays a large number of instruments, thrashing drums, wild trumpet and several tracks of moody analog electronics. This is noise music at it's most loud and aggressive, so if that doesn't float your boat, you won't like the later Luttenbacher's music. But if you grew up on Mission of Burma, X, Black Flag, or if you love the music of John Zorn, or Last Exit, this is an album worth checking out. ..."