Martin Escalante, Tete Leguia, Charlie Mumma

A relentless pedal-free noise blitz that will surely offend most music lovers is certainly going to delight a wide range of noise fans. This album fits somewhere between extreme free jazz and the works of Iannis Xenakis. Charlie Mumma has played drums on over 150 albums with legendary noise-grind-music concrete band Sissy Spacek, led by John Wiese, an outfit that changes members almost as often as they get in the studio. Martín Escalante has appeared on a few of those Spacek albums in fact that is how Mumma and Escalante first met, while recording with members of LAFMS, Bill Nace, C Spencer Yeh and others. Escalante has also recorded a few dozen albums with Otomo Yoshihide, Weasel Walter, Tatsuya Yoshida, Moe, Toshiji Mikawa and others. Teté Leguía is very active in the New York improvisation scene and is a frequent collaborator of Escalante’s. Leguía comes from the vibrant experimental scene in Lima, Peru, but now is a staple of the New York scene and has also played with Weasel Walter, Sam Weinberg, James McKain and many others. This CD documents their first session and live performance as a trio. Once you press play, do not expect for this thing to “build up to something” or “mellow out”. However, there is a satisfying structure here, propelled by some kind of intuitive motion, which maybe like a dream that serves to process the apparent nonsense and absurdity of real life. Available as CD and DL from Escalante’s own new label Wash and Wear Records.