Onze Danses Pour Combattre la Migraine

Onze Danses Pour Combattre la Migraine comprises 17 tracks that draw on a mix of musical forms, cultures and genres.

The pieces range from Satie-esque to structured Zappa-inspired rock, to very loose improv-jazz, and the execution in these diverse musical areas is extremely successful.

Fearlessly inventive, miles ahead of its time and basically impossible to categorise, the tone is set on the (literally) kraut-ish proto techno opener "Saure Gurke", which he had no right to conceive as early as 1977.

Amid the naive afro-futurist electronics is a deeply European consciousness, drawing from snatches of Balkan folk and the Parisian free jazz renaissance to create a restrained minimal tapestry. "

The following guest musicians played on this live recording: In 2003 Crammed Discs released Onze Danses Pour Combattre la Migraine on CD.