James Plotkin & Paal Nilssen-Love "Death Rattle"

Country: USA/Norway
Sub Genre: Jazz-Rock, Fusion, Avant Prog
Label: Rune Grammofon
Release date: October 18, 2013
Tracklist: 

1. Skin, the Colour
2. Primateria
3. Cock Circus
4. Death Rattle

Line-up: 
James Plotkin: Guitar
Paal Nilssen-Love: Drums

Description/Reviews: 

“Death Rattle” is the noise of two forces of nature in collision. Like a pair of clashing typhoons, Philadelphia based avant guitarist James Plotkin and Norwegian free jazz drummer Paal Nilssen-Love generate chaos, disturbance and a terrifying beauty in their first ever collaborative recording. Free jazz and metal-edged rock never chimed so exhilaratingly together before. ‘Paal’s precision and constant invention/reinvention is mind-blowing, only matched by its intensity,’ James enthuses. ‘There’s a very fluid feel to what he’s doing despite the ferocity. Instead of trying to match the chaos, I opted to build a more solid foundation of repetition and melody for him to launch from. I really appreciated the role reversal of drummer and guitarist!’

Media/Samples 
Death Rattle (excerpt)

Links:
Paal Nilssen-Love's web page
James Plotkin's web page
James Plotkin's Facebook