Released
1997
Label
Skingraft
Reviewed by
Michael C. Lund
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02 March, 1998
The Flying Luttenbachers
GODS OF CHAOS
Track Listing
a. Pointed Stick Variations
b. Stream Of Needles
c. The Flotation Method
d. Alien Autopsy
e. The Sun Is Bleeding
f. Cryptosporidium
The Flying
Luttenbachers have recently returned to America from a six week tour of Europe,
and the reports from Stockholm to Trieste are all the same: The European continent lies in
ruins. Gods Of Chaos, The Luttenbachers latest CD -- released on
the notorious Skin Graft label, is nothing less than a prophetic work,
illustrating, as the liner notes make clear: "...the last few events leading up to
[the end of the human race] in a compressed time-scheme." Be that as it may, Gods
Of Chaos might not actually be the end of the world, however, it could very well be
the end of all music.
"Thank you ladies and
gentleMEN. . . I know you like rock 'n roll music. . . I would like to introduce our next
act. . . it is called. . . a band called. . . The Flying. . . uhm. . . The
Flyiiiing Luttenbabbers. . ." The drunken and exhausted announcer just
cannot get it right. Eight or nine times he attempts, but each time he blows it, and
finally, the hellbent trio of Luttenbachers simply goes ahead and
unleashes pandemonium. The CD explodes in a hurricane of bass and guitar destruction. Free
jazz meets death metal alright, and then beyond...
For 45 minutes, The
Flying Luttenbachers rage on, their music at every turn balancing on the knife's
edge between carefully orchestrated chaos and free-wheeling, improvised(?), all-out sonic
apocalypse. Here are moments of blood and thunder; acrobatic passages of drumming that
makes one wonder if Weasel Walter has sprouted two extra sets of arms; segments
of intense pickings and pluckings of strings, rattlings and fidgetings with odd objects,
and even a time-out for some gurgles and splashes in the ocean. Here are also instants of Weasel
playing the saxophone as if he was breathing his dying gasps into the mouthpiece; an
interlude that sounds like an excursion to a retarded fairground; spurts of howling and
sawing bass and guitar soaring away on fiery winds. And, finally, here is also a band
playing together in rare cacophonous harmony.
Gods Of Chaos is the
fifth album from The Flying Luttenbachers, and this time THEY REALLY MEAN
IT (!)
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