Arguably the single most important landmark in European free music: The original BRO Records LP restored to its 1968 format, with TWO ALTERNATE TAKES, new liner notes by Brotzmann & John Corbett... PLUS the only LIVE VERSION of MACHINE GUN ever recorded- all in a deluxe package! "Brotzmann has said: "It was the feeling, the very naive feeling that we could take a little part in changing the world." Adopting its title from Don Cherry"s nickname for Brotzmann, MACHINE GUN translates the hilarious saxophonic power of the jump blues and Illinois Jacquet"s booting and hollering into an abstraction painted with a flame-thrower. SY"s Thurston Moore terms MG "a smashing, clanging wonderland of noise". MACHINE GUN was a watershed - and even if it has taken four decades to find its appreciative audience, it is now an essential recording, both in terms of the development of free music in Europe and taken on its own merits, outside of the context of its creation." - John Corbett, 2007