JazzMarathon '95
Groningen
Thomas Chapin & MACHINE GUN
Pass The Ammo!
Thomas Chapin    -  altsax
John Richey      -  poetry, tapes 
Robert Musso     -  guitar 
Jair-Rohm Wells  -  bass 
Bill Bryant      -  drums
Thomas Chapin & MACHINE GUN
Pass The Ammo!
The latest release on Muworks Records is Pass The Ammo! (MUW 1011), the follow up to the hugely succesful second record Open Fire and their eponymous debut by the purely and aggressively improvisational ensemble known as MACHINE GUN. This is the long awaited CD you have been waiting for. It goes where no CD has gone before capturing you with its intensity and swinging your eyebrows with its ferocity. Charting heretofore uncharted regions of the mind and soul, this music redefines the meaning of so called new music and fusion with its blasphemous disregard for for boundaries of any kind. Pass the Ammo! is the release that Jazz and College/Alternative Radio has been waiting for.

Machine Gun is growing tremendously as a movement; our collection of wave reviews (including Spin, Guitar World, Rolling Stone, CMJ, Wire, Tower Pulse and High Fidelity , among many other publications) grows daily and radio greedily devours our releases with similar gusto. This amazing band traces its lineage back to the improvisational music pioneered by Ornette Coleman, Miles Davis, Sonny Sharrock and Bill Laswell's Last Exit (all of whom Robert Musso has worked with). The Machine Gun name is taken from the 1969 FMP/Peter Brötzmann album of the same name, which features famous European improvisors. Pass the Ammo! was recorded live in the studio at Bill Laswell's Greenpoint recording complex, and at various New York clubs.

Robert Musso
Robert Musso, founder of Muworks Records, has produced dozens of records over the last decade, and is also known for his collaboration with Bill Laswell on well over a hundred projects varying from Mick Jagger, Miles Davis, Iggy Pop to William S. Burroughs, just to name a few. He has also recorded two solo releases on Muworks Records and frequently lends his musicianship to many "downtown" projects.

Thomas "Rage" Chapin
Thomas "Rage" Chapin, also has many albums to his credit on the Muworks label as well as other various labels and is quikly being recognized as a major force on the "Downtown New York" saxophone scene. Thomas plays sax, flute and various percussion as a regular member of Machine Gun.

Bassist Jair-Rohm Parker Wells and drummer Bill Bryant currently live in Sweden and are constantly touring Europe as a sought after rhythm section.

Poet and tape manipulator John Richey has published numerous collections of his poetry and appeared in various publications including The Village Voice and Rolling Stone.

Live audio, recorded during the JazzMarathon.(30 sec. 300Kb)

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