Consumer Guide Album

Music Revelation Ensemble: No Wave [Moers, 1980]
I know, Blood Ulmer and his boys probably spent more time plugging in their amps than knocking off the music. Too much of it is free-jazz fucking around, even less faithful to their nuclear fusion in its carelessness than the Rough Trade album in its care. Still, when David Murray starts to blow on the one they call "Baby Talk," and not even over one of Jackson-Ali's funkier beats, it's fun, and a revelation. Buy the official version first. But up this one a notch for erring in the right wrong direction. B+