Ben Thompson 

Cato Salsa Experience and The Thing with Joe McPhee, Two Bands and a Legend

The final word in Norway-sponsored proto-punk free jazz.
  
  


Reconnecting the proto-punk of the Stooges and MC5 with its ideological roots in Sixties free jazz, this collaboration between garage-rockers Cato Salsa Experience, jazz trio the Thing, and improvisatory eminence Joe McPhee, is not only the noisiest record ever to bear the legend 'with thanks to the arts council of Norway', it's also the most entertaining. Having previously energised Led Zeppelin's 'Whole Lotta Love', these masters of the sludge-jazz free-for-all now set themselves the ultimate challenge - a version of 'Louie Louie' more psychotic than Black Flag's - and pass with flying colours.

 

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