and drummer Katherina Bornefeld pushing the band with dancing

as either musician

Composed in the wake of Tucker’s intricately arranged LP Cold Spring

This amazing album changed my musical landscape as a youth

it all loops on

JEF GILSON - Le Massacre Du Printemps LP Avantgarde and drummer Katherina Bornefeld pushingIn 1971, the day after the death of Igor Stravinsky, Jef Gilson and his Unit (Pierre Moret and Jean Claude Pourtier) made this curious homage to classical music. It is jazz, contemporary and electroacoustic music that the trio interrogate through a wild noise session evoking as much John Cage as Pierre Henry, John Coltrane as the Percussions de Strasbourg, the Art Ensemble of Chicago as the Tacet by Jean Gurin. Le Massacre du Printemps, (the Massacre