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BIRDS ON FIRE (7:59)

"Birds On Fire" and "Birds On Fire, Part 2" may have gotten their names, in part, from Mahavishnu Orchestra's "Birds Of Fire," but each tracks' auspicious characteristic is Art Jackson's unhinged, feedback-laden guitar work, which punctuates both halves of this two-part suite. That and the frantic, schitzo co-soloing from Atrocity keyboardist, Pharaoh Keyes, whose keyboard work is astounding. These particular performances pull out each and every possible stop, as The Atrocity careens from swing-driven bastard-jazz to hard-blowin' free-form noisemaking, all tempered by dizzying shifts in tone and tenor. Together, the two performances are tour de force examples of the avant-jazz that was typical of Art Jackson's Atrocity's live, brutal and raw audacity.

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from Live In Europe (1975), released April 18, 1975

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Art Jackson's Atrocity East Saint Louis, Illinois

"I've heard GOUT and, whatever the provenance, it's a fine, percussion-fuelled, invigorating free-for-all."

Fred Dellar
MOJO Magazine

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