AXOLOTL - Abrasive LP garage and gig promoters in Europe

and gig promoters in Europe

Formed in New York circa 1988

but the performances captured here move so far past the plod that it’ll no doubt shock those familiar with the band’s early droppings

Mastering by Warren DeFever at Detroit's Thrid Man labs takes the songs to new levels of clarity

This brief introduction doesn’t tell us if the axolotl sings

AXOLOTL - Abrasive LP garage and gig promoters in EuropeIn 1981, encouraged by Jac Berrocal, Axolotl (Etienne Brunet and Jacques Oger on saxophones and clarinet, Marc Dufourd on electric guitar) recorded an album of French style free music as iconoclastic as it was unsettling: free improvisation, jazz, no wave, contemporary, punk a dance of labels which leaves plenty of place for the direct expression of a monstrous trio of regenerated agitators! The axolotl is a species of salamander native to Mexico,