Brötzmann in the Wire
Posted: Jun 28, 2008

The Wire
Caspar Brötzmann
Issue #132 (February '95)
By: Ben Watson
Caspar Brötzmann doesn't take kindly to being called a guitar player ("It's just a tool," he says), but his attack on the instrument - explosive, obstreperous, large scale, textural, timbral - asserts the material facts of string-pickup-amplifier more bluntly than anyone else currently involved in rock. Sonic Youth, Helmet, Pigface - they're all clamouring for his attention. How does he sound? Blocks of sound unleashed in Varesian...