One of the most renowned Portuguese psychedelic rock bands Black Bombaim and the equally renowened German free jazz saxophonist Peter Brötzmann have collaborated this year on a pretty remarkable album. The album only came out a few days ago and it packs some astounding instrumental psychedelic rock and offers a mixture of improvisational free jazz parts along with forward propelling psych and krautrock motion to make for some mesmerizing noisy psychedelia from start to finish.
The first track on the album is titled ''Part I'' and it it starts off with a short free jaz sax part until Black Bombaim set in, and propell the track into a far-out instrumental psych jam, where Brötzmann's saxophone impro works incredibly well to make for some captivating psychedelic jamming. The same thing can essentially be said about the second track as well, only that the track starts off in a rather krauty stoner manner, making for another rather heavy psych jam. The bass section of Black Bombaim works wonders on this track, as well as on the entire album, offering some fine repetitive low tunes that also tend to have quite a bit of variation too. ''Part III'' however is my personal favorite from this all-round fine album. The track starts off rather slow with some flowing drums and a repetitive hum of bass accompanied by the sax of Brötzmann, only to evolve into another addictive far-out jam in the end. The last two tracks don't dissappoint in any way as well, as they put forth some fine stoner and psych heavyness with links to be made to Om in the bass section of ''Part IV'' until it evolves into another rather heavy psychedelic noise rock jam. The last track can also be summed up with the words ''captivating and unrelenting free jazz influenced noisy psychedelia''.
All in all the collaboration of Black Bombaim and Peter Brötzmann goes down as one of the best releases of 2016 for me. At least among the albums that have already come out so far. Anyone who is into some fine noisy instrumental psychedelia and free jazz sax improvisation then this is definitely an album to check out and take note of.
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