[bomp] New From Gulcher: HOLLYWOOD SQUARETET / TET-OFFENSIVE (Gulcher 603)

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Hollywood Squaretet
TET-OFFENSIVE
(Gulcher 603)

Why did Albert Ayler cross the road? To get to the OTHER side,
muthuh-fugger! This stupid, stupid universe we live within is a tea
party always awaiting creative upheaval. Cretins like George W.
make with lots of upheaval--but no creation. And the streets
are littered with schmucks who have ideas but no FREE WILL
with which to turn the crapple cart on its back side. Then there
are honest-to-pete free men like the Hollywood Squaretet who
are willing to git down, turn your head around, and make it to that
OTHER side.

"Welcome to the F**k You Lounge," as drummer-ranter Larry
Copcar states so eloquently. "What is the password?" he asks.
"F**K YOU!" answer his bandmates. Bandmate number one
is MISTER Todd Homer on the upright bass and (occasionally)
alto sax. Yeah, he's the dude who was the bass guitarist with the
ORIGINAL Angry Samoans (negativity personified), and later in
his career, co-leader of the wonderful Mooseheart Faith Stellar
Groove Band (101% positivity). With the Squaretet, Todd reclaims
the (self-)righteous indignation of the Samoans, but retains the
PRO-gressive urges of Mooseheart Faith (what a trick, huh?).

And then there's MISTER Kenny Kawamura playing various
saxophones like a man possessed--except free men can't be owned,
so this is ALL his own fault. Do NOT blame it on the bossa nova,
baby--blame it on the super nova sailing through this cat's noggin.
Kenny has been involved in his share of outsider projects, including
Fellaheen, Beekeeper, and Chic Empowerment Center. He has also
worked on various indie-film soundtracks as a multi-instrumentalist.

Okay, we'll call this stuff "free-jazz," but I don't remember Ayler
or Dolphy or Shepp peppering their material with comedic insults
or spazzy guitars (courtesy of guest stars Mikaleno, Gil Chinn, and
Mooseheart Faith's other mainman Larry Robinson). That's because
Larry Copcar is equal parts Elvin Jones and Rodney Dangerfield--
Sunny Murray and Sam Kinison! Under his "real name" (shhh),
Copcar spent much of the 80s doing stand-up comedy (he even
appeared on HBO specials). And in the 60s, he played in various
garage bands, releasing a single on Roulette Records in 1968 with
the Bougalieu.

Are you there yet, music fans? This trio (and its extended variations)
is like a Lester Bangs wet dream: the ESP-Disk jazz catalog forced
into fusion with the satiric f**k-you of ESP "rockers" the Fugs and
the Holy Modal Rounders. Don't misunderstand me--it's the sonic
collision between these three players that makes room for the humor,
not the other way 'round. But it's all one big ball of improvised L.A.
chaos. Charles Bukowski shakin' hands with Charles Mingus.
Somebody's mama with her skirt up 'round her waist and a very
cold beer goin' down the other end. Kenny, Todd, and Larry
cracklin' like a summer storm, and then the hail starts fallin'--hard.
You are there now, in the heart of the confusion and the too-high
smirks. Did you say f**k ME? Well, f**k YOU! Blow, babies, blow!
(Crawlin' Ed Flores/Schleppy Town)

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