Thor's Rubber Hammer: Celebrate Noisy Improvisation on “Ecstatic Jazz Duos”

Washingtonm DC-based experimental label Thor’s Rubber Hammer Productions have announced a series of 12’’ Split-releases, involving some of the major names of the scene. Described as a “juicy free-jazz series” by the outfit’s head-viking Lars Gotrich, “Ecstatic Jazz Duos” will present three head-on collisions involving six projects from the realms of Free Jazz, Improvisation, Industrial, Noise and the Avantgarde – each of them contributing a Vinyl-side of their own. While the “Ecstatic Jazz Duos” are already strictly limited to 500 copies, there is an even more exclusive option of subscribing to the entire collection. 100 lucky fans will be treated to additional buttons, stickers and (most importantly) a CDr containing valuable bonus material. Even though there as yet no samples of the material available, the line-up certainly looks impressive on paper and with the radical focus on quality and the untypically (for a Noise- label) selective attitude typical of Thor’s Rubber Hammer, the series is more than likely to deliver on its promise.