BROTZMANN BENNINK BALLS FMP 0020 RARE ORIG 200 ONLY Verlag Udo Breger Free Jazz

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BROTZMANN/ VAN HOVE/ BENNINK: “Balls”

LABEL: FMP Records

Label Number: FMP-0020

- VERY RARE 1970 German FIRST ORIGINAL PRESSING

- Very first press was issued in silk screen sleeve

- On back of 1st issue sleeve – circle cut out in middle of opening of the sleeve where the record slides in. Later issues do not have this

- Only very first issue has stated on sleeve “200 prints of this album for the 3-/3-/3- edition of VERLAG*) – udo breger 34 gottingen lotzestr. 26"

- Very 1st FMP records label issue with fully circular lettering

- Impossibly rare, way rarer than Machine Gun

- Great condition!!!

- Every copy offered on ebay so far were 2nd pressings or reissues. This is the real deal here….

GRADING:

LP Record: Near Mint ~ – TOP Condition not even a spindle mark in sight, perfectly clean copy, do not think you can ever upgrade on this one here.

Silk screen Jacket: VG++ some damage near opening with carefully repaired 2 tears on front – see pic and some spine wear. Sleeve is very fragile.

Some words: BROTZMANN/ VAN HOVE/ BENNINK: “Balls” (Free Music Production – FMP-0020) Original 1970 Top Copy FMP pressing. First time ever genuine first pressing of this beast – comes housed in fragile silkscreen jacket, which came out in an edition of 200 copies ONLY!!!! (Only 1st press has stated on back “200 prints of this album for the 3-/3-/3- edition of VERLAG”). Comes with rounded edge opening on back as only 1stedition has. THE SECOND FMP release and as rare as Machine Gun – if not rarer!!! Recorded August 17th, 1970 in Berlin. BALLS is an excellent example of early European free improvisation. It was one of the first releases on the then newly erected and now legendary German FMP label (Free Music Production) following upon on BRO Records, and was the first recording by the Brotzmann/Van Hove/Bennink trio, which continued to play together throughout the 1970s. It was a true trio, not just a vehicle for Peter Brotzmann -- Fred Van Hove's blend of avant and tonal pop piano and Han Bennink's wild percussion, vocals and the periodic blasting on shells and horns play an equal role in the group's sound. This masterpiece of a recording orbits into the more daredevil end of European improvisation with Fred Van Hove splintering enough ivory keys to allow Brotzmann’s machine-gun-toting horn and Bennink’s percussive rattle and shakes access to some singularly oblique tonal regions without never ever losing their collective interlocking connection with the overall narrative drive that gels them together. This trio simply catapults the disc beyond the reach of conventional established jazz strategies and into an adrenaline rush of subtle subconscious logic that makes up this sonic whirlwind of “axing through ice” like melodically obscure hair-raising ferocity.

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New to the e-bay game but long experience in selling records so bid with confidence.

Our grading scale: Mint/ Near Mint/ Excellent/ VG++/. We don’t sell anything below VG++. VG++ grade is basically that the record has some scuffs and has wear. Excellent: record has hardly no visible defects and is preserved with care and attention, the condition most collectors take pride in to file away. Near Mint: a dash below mint, just perfect. Mint: like new.

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