It’s not really a love song.
It’s a Love Song is the new album from Caspar Brötzmann Massaker, the first since the band’s 1999 release Mute Massaker, a record I enjoyed did not fully embrace. Perhaps my expectations for the son of Peter got in the way as Brötzmann senior was a force of nature on sax.
But 26 years can change things, including me, and it sounds as if Caspar has been hold up in some dark place with just his guitar, effects, an amp and raw meat (he’s actually been very busy with other projects including a record with his father and three from a band that included F.M. Einheit (of Einstürzende Neubauten fame). Brötzmann is joined here by Eduardo Delgado-Lopez on electric bass and Saskia von Klitzing on drums for this live outing, recorded in Vienna and Dresden in January of this year.
The 34-minute album consists of two versions of Brötzmann’s “All This Violence” plus album opener “Bar Open” and if enjoy your music raw, primal and ferocious, take a big slice of It’s a Love Song to go.
“We are peaceful people / And we have enough / This is our protest / From all this violence”
It is a love song, after all.
It’s a Love Song is available on vinyl from Corbett vs Dempsey.