Borbetomagus
Is Borbetomagus the noisiest ensemble that ever stomped across the face of the planet, the one that really cracked the mantle, slopped through magma, and kept right on going? Admittedly, this sort of question has always been a part of rock ‘n’ roll, and yes, there’s a degree of gender specificity to it. Do girls get in a froth about brute volume, blunt force, and raw demonstrations of puerile, unfocused, indiscriminate power? Not really. But if the answer is Borbetomagus, know that they arrived at the pinnacle of Loud on the shoulders of their influences and predecessors: 1970s acid-jazz Titan, Pete Cosey; Jimi Hendrix; Albert Ayler; Motorhead; Peter Broetzmann; Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music; and the Tony Conrad/John Cale version of... Read More
- Genre:
- Experimental, Noise, Jazz, Avant-Garde, Free Jazz
- City Of Origin:
- New York, ,New York United States
- Formed Date:
- 1979
