Joachim Kühn, Mark Nauseef, Tony Newton, Miroslav Tadic - Let's Be Generous (1981)

This 1991 release is a pinnacle of avant-fusion and most of the credit goes to Joachim Kühn's gloriously raw and distorted electronic keyboard sound. As a guitarist, it's hardly surprising that Miroslav Tadic would summon prototypes of ecstatic electric music like Jimi Hendrix and Allan Holdsworth, but for a musician best known as a pianist, and occasionally a rather bland one, it's a real shock to hear the same prototypes summoned by keyboards. The timbres don't overlap with Mike Ratledge's mythical playing in The Soft Machine, but the intensity and dirty analog feeling are comparable, a rare achievement to say the least. The combination of Tadic and Kühn equally assaulting a bevy of warm jazz melodies and harmonies with slurred, fuzzed, blistering fury is a feast unlike any others I can cite. It's easy to hear the similarities to the heavy guitar attack of stuff from the same rough time frame like Ronald Shannon Jackson's fantastic Red Warrior, Sonny Sharrock's uneven rock-oriented platters, and the Christy Doran / Stephan Wittwer collaboration Red Twist and Tuned Arrow, but even as he explores sonic territory typical of electric guitar Kühn's sound here is so distinct from any guitar sound that his blend with Tadic is a singular wonder.


Tracks:

*01.-Prophet
*02.-Senegal
*03.-Avant Garage
*04.-Always Yours
*05.-Something Sweet, Something Tender
*06.-The Captain and I
*07.-Heavy Hanging
*08.-Don't Disturb My Groove
*09.-Snake Oil
*10.-Bintang
*11.-Kissing The Feet



Personnel:

*Joachim Kühn: electronic keyboards and piano.
*Mark Nauseef: drums, gongs, cymbals, Chinese drums, temple bells, metal plates, "magic drum", ADD II digital drums and junk.
*Tony Newton: bass.
*Miroslav Tadic: guitar.









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