Super charged white boy free jazz, Neilson and Keenan deliver the goods. The sound will ring out through the church and call the spirits to the floor.
Tight Meat is the horse-killing duo of Alex Neilson on drums and David Keenan on saxophone. Committed to the kind of revolutionary praxis that would combine Walter De Maria and Hasil Adkins' time-humping techniques with the sound of European steel, gospelised free jazz white out and the kind of primitive-modernist breakthroughs that would destroy middle-brow art music through the ultra-focussed application of leery flesh-based magic and phonetically primitive power stomps, their pedigree is most assuredly not British. Indeed, they refuse to be bound to any earthly plane, even though they were, like, born here and everything.
"Like all the great visionary thinkers of our time, from Iggy Stooge to Arthur Doyle, David Keenan and Alex Neilson are autodidactic polymaths devolving advanced thought back to punk-primitive motion. Judging by the music heard on Vanishing Fist, their first salvo under the name Tight Meat Duo, these twentysomething/thirtysomething Glaswegian deviants are prime examples of the dictum that the new wave of free musicians act on impulse. They've studied and immersed themselves in some of the most life affirming vibrations of all time, those silhouettes, shadows and forecasts of tomorrow disguised as free jazz, as Sun Ra almost put it; sensed this essence flooding their synapses, rewiring their DNA, messing with the id so inherited 3D vision becomes implanted Third Eye cosmology; and now they're getting in on the aktion. " - Tony Herrington, London, Winter 2006.
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