Gustafsson, Mats & Nilssen-Love, Paal – “I Love It When You Snore” – [Weird Forest Records]

More death-defying free improv from these avant-skronk superstars. Gustafsson graces us with his special brand of raw, bestial horn playing that is as percussive as it is textural. He produces such a dense, vibrant jungle of sounds, we need his yelping and gasping for air to remind us he’s human, not a snarling hyena, bellowing elephant, squonking goose or a buzzing dragonfly. Nilssen-Love plays the set with unrelenting, visionary velocity, applying and endless supply of bends, scrapes, rolls and hits with impeccably crisp and fresh technique and spot-on stop-start intensity. Their telepathic capabilites are made especially apparent on the 7″ recording of their first encounter together at an improvised music festival in Stockholm in 1998. They jump into flurries of chaotic precision with such immediacy its as if they were of one mind. Their sounds blend seamlessly into one another facilitated by??the sputtering, percussive delivery of Mats (not to mention the spiderlike tapping of his keys), producing one organic sonic entity full of epileptic jittering and imaginitive timbral exploration.