The latest from The Thing, BOOT!, on their own label The Thing Records (New Perspectives on Music and Life!), will be available worldwide on vinyl, CD and download Nov. 12 in association with the Austrian Trost label.
The last time we saw the Scandinavian garage/free jazz trio (Mats Gustafsson - bass, baritone, tenor and soprano saxophones; Ingebrigt Håker Flaten - electric bass; and Paal Nilssen-Love - drums) they were working with Neneh Cherry, the daughter of their namesake Don Cherry, on The Cherry Thing.
Formed in 1999 as a Don Cherry recording project, the trio have tackled a variety of material over six albums including compositions by PJ Harvey, Albert Ayler, The White Stripes, Steve Lacy, The Stooges, The Sonics, The Cramps, Lightning Bolt and The Ex and have collaborated with the likes of Peter Brötzmann, Sonic Youth, Jim O'Rourke, Thurston Moore, David Grubbs, Eye, The Ex, Pat Metheny, Arto Lindsay, Steve Reid, Kieran Hebden, Merzbow, Christian Marclay, The Nomads, Guy Picciotto and the aforementioned Cherries père and fils.
BOOT! is dedicated to fans in the rock, noise and jazz communities and promises to take The Thing's music to new and uncompromising levels. Anyone who has seen these gentlemen perform live knows they are as good as their word.
Their 2011 album, Mono, originally put out on Smalltown Supersound, is also being re-released on the new label as double vinyl and a live collaboration with Thurston Moore is scheduled for 2014 as well as the band's entire back catalogue on Crazy Wisdom and Smalltown.
For more information on upcoming releases go to thethingrecords.com.
