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After a few minutes...

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After a few minutes some closely recorded cymbals skittered into life. With little warning a tenor saxophone aggressively asserted itself. The saxophone player and the drummer began to improvise with the sort of discordant tones suggestive of protracted marital breakdown; a guitarist, presumably located in a building adjacent to his fellow musicians, began gamely attacking his instrument with, it was fair to assume, a hammer.

Richard King in Original Rockers, listening to a CD 'by an ominous pan-European sounding trio of free-jazz journeymen'.

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