Caspar Brötzmann Massaker announce new album, it’s a love song

Archaic, infernal, radical, consistent, courageous…

Following the release of his first composition The Lovers And Destroyers with Caspar Brötzmann Bass Totem in fall 2024, the internationally renowned guitarist Caspar Brötzmann and his band Massaker have now announced a new release on the German label Exile On Mainstream in collaboration with Chicago-based art space Corbett vs. Dempsey: it’s a love song.

It features two different live versions of his song “All This Violence”, which were recorded in Vienna and Dresden with Saskia von Klitzing (drums) and Eduardo Delgado Lopez (bass).

An originally planned studio album was postponed and is to be realised after the release of it’s a love song. But in view of the current world situation, Brötzmann decided to make a clear statement with the track, “All This Violence”

About this unconventional release, Caspar says;

“… after just a few moments, it became clear that the live recordings I was hearing, had a message, a power to reflect on current events. None of my studio recordings had this power… I think I am probably difficult to understand… Words are just a tool, of course, and a means to an end, eventually building a cage I do not wish to step into. This is why I love the freedom of music so much. Music comes along just like that and wants nothing, needs no explanation, demands nothing. This makes me all the happier to write “It’s a love song” on this record and that I have done so with my band Massaker which has always been my very own way of enduring the horrors of the world. I get the feeling of having done something that stands up against these horrors and I hope the album conveys not only this but so much more…”

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Since the mid-1980s, Caspar Brötzmann has been shaping an unmistakable sound – infernal, radical, uncompromising. He unwaveringly pursues his own path, beyond clear genre boundaries. As the son of a famous saxophonist, he found his artistic identity early on and developed a unique sound language that discharges in brute catharsis. His music is not an adaptation to trends, but a sensitive, passionate, almost obsessive approach to despair and anger – and yet full of hope. With his virtuoso independence on the instrument, he is an exceptional phenomenon. An atonal Hendrix, made in Germany (Tøni Schiffer).

it’s a love song album cover

IT’S A LOVE SONG TRACK LISTING:

1  – BAR OPEN

2 – ALL THIS VIOLENCE – LIVE IN VIENNA

3 – ALL THIS VIOLENCE – LIVE IN DRESDEN