Weasel Walter - Early Recordings 1988-1991 (2007)

If Captain Beefheart, James Chance, Sunny Murray and Iannis Xenakis were sixteen year old kids in Rockford, Illinois during the late '80s, this is the music they'd make.

18 tracks of bizarre teenage no wave/free jazz/noise/prog/punk recorded between 1988 and 1991 by weasel walter (the flying luttenbachers, xbxrx, lake of dracula, etc.) these embryonic recordings fully predict many aspects of the madness we have come to expect from this iconoclastic musician. full of angular guitar, bleating bass clarinet and saxophone, artfully pummelled drums, warped electronics, the compositions here are varied and show discrete musical influences - this music is the definitive root of the many musical paths mr. walter has embarked on since. carefully chopped, channeled and remasted from the original 4-track cassette masters, "Early Recordings: 1988-1991" will shock fans of adventurous, dissonant music into a standing ovation. comes complete with archival 8 page stapled booklet featuring ephemera, liner notes, photos and artwork by O.G.W.W.