(Free Jazz) The Thing (Mats Gustafsson, Ingebrigt Haker Flaten, Paal Nilssen-Love) - Boot! - 2013, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Recorded February 11- 13th 2013 by Martin Siewert at Grand Sport studio, Oslo

Scandinavian improv trio the Thing (saxist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love) have released a string of albums and played hundreds of gigs worldwide in joyous defiance of the idea that raw noise and indifference to careful planning are inimical to music-making. Last year, alongside former pop singer and Brit award-winner Neneh Cherry, they created an inspired brew of experimental pop and sax-wailing ferocity, and though this studio set for the core band doesn't stray as close to familiar song-shapes, the Thing always suggest storylines and melody even at their most merciless – the result of orthodox-music experience deep enough to generate a rich deconstructivist palette. Gustafsson charges into the opener with maddened-elephant bass-saxophone grunts over the wonderful Nilssen-Love's crunching rock drumming, Reboot is a tonally contrasting episode of dissonant whistles and high-pitched snarls over a speeding-train snare-drum pulse, and the frantic Red River is a percussion tour de force. The Thing are an invigorating restorative rather than a regular diet, but long may they flourish. ~ john fordham, theguardian.com, 14 november 2013
Saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, the Scandinavian trio collectively known as The Thing, create pummeling free jazz full of rock fury and noise destruction that still honors the jazz tradition from which it arose. The visceral results of this interdisciplinary skill (like 2009′s sublime Bag It!) have made them one of the best-regarded jazz outfits in the world. They continue to live up to that reputation with Boot! (their first release on their newly formed The Thing Records), a set that opens with Coltrane-gone-punk and never looks back. That opener, a take on Impressions‘ ”India”, rides on Gustafsson’s iterations of the tune’s head, his honked baritone sax menacing where Coltrane’s soprano had fluttered. The track also establishes Håker Flaten’s use of distorted electric bass throughout the record, a scuzzy gravel layer under Nilssen-Love’s shuddering, constant fills. After burning things down, they “Reboot”, a tom raga and quick slices of bass swaying mystically in a darkly mellow counterpoint to the tectonics that came just before. The track cycles for seven minutes as the drums fill more and more space, pieces of bass stitched together with a double-time clap for the ecstatic conclusion to the ritual. The bass and baritone sax link for the circling theme of Duke Ellington’s “Heaven”, scattershot cymbal hiss and rattle fuzzing the edges. The Thing turn the Sacred Concert staple into a droning exploration. Håker Flaten pushes those familiar notes in quick succession, as Gustafsson delivers runs that range from bass rumble to aching squeal. The 14-minute “Epilog” is a free jazz deep sea dive, Nilssen-Love’s muscly snare rolls rippling over the slow two-step sax theme. Much like the one on the album’s cover, the trio flex their muscles on Boot!, covering even the relatively low-key moments in a thick, rocky mantle. While it may not have the varied atmospheres of their best records, sheer strength has always been one of the most effective tools in The Thing’s arsenal. The trio fuse jazz classics and their own noisy improvisation with brute force here, never lacking for unified vision or deep subtlety. ~ adam kivel, consequenceofsound.net, november 11, 2013
Somebody should inform the members of the Scandinavian free jazz trio The Thing they are not rock stars. I repeat, somebody tell saxophonist Mats Gustafsson, bassist Ingebrigt Haker Flaten and drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, you are not lizard kings. The release of Boot!, their sixth studio album since forming in 1999, is a follow-up to the widely celebrated session The Cherry Thing (Smalltown Supersound, 2012) with Neneh Cherry. The band has also collaborated with the likes of Thurston Moore, Joe McPhee, Cato Salsa Experience, Otomo Yoshihide, Ken Vandermark, and Jim O'Rourke. Their garage band genesis was a tribute to the music of Don Cherry, but they quickly expanded into the a free jazz punk esthetic, covering music by The Stooges, Albert Ayler, PJ Harvey, Ornette Coleman, Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, and James Blood Ulmer. Boot! opens with an allegedly sacrilegious version of John Coltrane's "India" that becomes sacred. With Gustafsson blasting overblown notes from his baritone saxophone, the Indian Vedic chants and religious music Coltrane modeled his Indian drone sound from is infused with the electric of Håker Flaten's plugged-in bass and Nilssen-Love's drumming that is more Keith Moon than Elvin Jones. Trane's rapture is duplicated in a punk-garage euphoria. Coltrane's music is also hinted at with the title track. The slow burn of "Boot!" finds tenor saxophone tracking the Håker Flaten's bass guitar, which is applied as more guitar than bass, to resemble "Psalm" from A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1965). Elsewhere, they remake Duke Ellington's "Heaven" into a slow-burning ballad with a churning undertone of pounding drums and thunderous bass. "Red River" draws from the heavy blues rock of Black Sabbath, fusing rock and free jazz into a liberating energy of sound. These three musicians are, to be sure, rock stars. Ones that can also make Duke and Coltrane smile. ~ mark corroto, allaboutjazz.com, november 18, 2013

Mats Gustafsson – soprano, tenor, baritone and bass saxophones
Ingebrigt Håker Flaten – electric bass
Paal Nilssen-Love – drums