THE LAUGHING OWL presents the proceedings of a heady musical summit: seventeen sublime, challenging duets from THE EX'S guitarist, TERRIE EX & Dutch free-jazz legend HAN BENNINK. These gents' resumes are the stuff musical dreams are made of. THE EX's credentials as a musical entity & as human beings are simply unimpeachable. This stalwart experimental rock collective have been fearlessly doing things their own way for nearly 20 years, issuing relentless albums & touring the earth , reknown both for their i...   [ read more ]

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It started as an innocent jaunt: two good friends/collaborators, and many musical (and potentially musical) "implements", on a trip to the Bavaria's lush gem - The Black Forest. (excerpted from Peter's liner notes): "There was a time Han Bennink and I, sometimes with Fred Van Hove, would drive through the Black Forest to get to places like the jazz clubs in Villingen and Loerrach, to play. At the same time during the end of sixties, beginning of seventies Joachim-Ernst Berendt, chief of the SWF was sett...   [ read more ]

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On paper, this duo should not work out. The soft bopping romanticism of pianist Simon Nabatov should have been blown to smithereens by the runaway train that is Han Bennink. Well, lo and behold, Chat Room turns out to be both civilized and exciting. It would be too easy to say that Nabatov has managed to tame the wild horse (come on, even Misha Mengelberg is not able to do that even after trying for four decades). No, the reason why it works is simply because each improviser meets the other ...   [ read more ]

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