Lost & Found

Peter Brötzmann is an old-fashioned modernist, something that would have been impossible to write thirty years ago. But that's what he was even then, even though at that time you were either old-fashioned or modernist. The modernist was against the establishment, i.e., against the old-fashioned. It is no longer like that today. Instead of this we speak of 'Postmodernism' or of Contemporary Art. And what does this mean? That art and music keep in time with time. There are no more directions in art, only 'trends'. The old-fashioned modernist defies conformism. There is no space for banality in Peter Brötzmann's music. He rids the music from old habits, time and again. (Thomas Millroth)