THRAKATTAK

The tracks of this CD have been recorded in different concerts, and the selections focus only to their free-form chaos-improvisations sprouting from the dissonant title composition. There are some good parts found from the searing flow of aural terrorism, but also lots of lousy wandering around. I think that it's harder to do a good improvisation with six players that with four, but I also feel here the aim of the band goes closer to self-purposeful abstractions in vein of Pat Metheny's "The Sign of Four". Luckily there's a warning sticker on the cover though, "Parental Advisory - weird music, your kids might get epilepsy from exposure" or something. No wonder Bruford and Levin bolted out from the band after this bad trip.