DUDU PUKWANA / HAN BENNINK / MISHA MENGELBERG - Yi Yole LP New Age Death Mercedes

Death Mercedes

is a harrowing story of a highway wreck over a suitably edgy instrumental backing punctuated by … live firecrackers into the vocal booth

Listening to ARBO X one unwittingly concentrates on interweaving details without loosing the sense of the whole

he’s written more than 400 compositions and is featured on more than 70 recordings (including International Anthem’s very first

Los Angeles Times

DUDU PUKWANA / HAN BENNINK / MISHA MENGELBERG - Yi Yole LP New Age Death MercedesRecorded at the ICP Jubileum, a festival in Uithoorn, Holland, in 1978, Yi Yole brings together the core of the Instant Composers Pool pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink with legendary South African alto saxophonist Dudu Pukwana. Longtime member of the Blue Notes, Pukwana was a beloved figure in European free music after he left South Africa in the mid sixties and settled in London. There he worked with all of the leading lights of free