Uneven Eleven

Featuring: Makoto Kawabata

A wonder trio consisting of Charles Hayward, Guy Segers (Univers Zero) and Kawabata Makoto (Acid Mothers Temple), captured live. A special evening in which the three veterans met on stage, setting the atmosphere on fire with a unique concert, short-circuiting forty years of rock history from blues to noise via the most liquid and rarefied psychedelia.

Charles Hayward has always asserted a very personal idea of improvisation, in some ways equidistant from the abstractness of European free and the muscularity of the jam session. The case of this trio is therefore no exception, in which the musicians nonchalantly range from pounding rock to shifting polyrhythms, from rarefied atmospheres to the searing intensity. The sound is energetic and compact, centred on Hayward's violent momentum and on the search for an immediate empathy with the audience; free form mixing with an idea of post-atomic fusion.

For the avoidance of doubt, the record sounds almost bootleg-quality, but it doesn't detract in the slightest from the fury of this trio who, on stage, create rants between punk, hardcore, metal, prog and the like. We're talking about a power trio in the best punk groove.