As mentioned before The Thing & Ken Vandermark were the main reason my pal and I attended the Unlimited 28 festival in Wels, Austria last Saturday. As a great admirer of Mats Gustafsson I've already collected quite a few few of his sheer endless CD releases, only 4 albums with the Thing. Gustafsson and Vandermark are especially known as high-energy free jazz musicians, and the Thing are the perfect vehicle for their heavy rocking, powerful and breathtaking music, very reminiscent of Peter Brötzmann (with which they all have collaborated often) and especially of his Last Exit outfit. We were not disappointed, they played well over an hour including one encore, and it was clear that the quartet had given their utmost musically and - physically.
(clip taken from a previous performance in 2010)
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