Ettrick

Bio:

Ettrick is a free jazz/black metal duo featuring two multi-instrumentalists rotating through every permutation of their sax and drum assault.

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Member Since:

June 05, 2005

Members:

Jacob Felix Heule
...drum set, saxophone

Jay Korber
...drum set, saxophone

Influences:

Abruptum, Rashied Ali, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey, Han Bennink, Black Flag, Anthony Braxton, Peter Brötzmann, Burzum, John Butcher, Captain Beefheart, James Chance & The Contortions, Bob Clampett, Cock ESP, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Cryptopsy, Darkthrone, Deicide, Flying Luttenbachers, Gorguts, Graveland, Milford Graves, Hate Eternal, Harry Pussy, Jim Henson, Bill Hicks, Immortal, Spike Jones, King Crimson, Krisiun, György Ligeti, Magma, Minor Threat, Sunny Murray, Nirvana, Orthrelm, Evan Parker, Polwechsel, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Sissy Spacek, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Cecil Taylor, US Maple, Anton Webern, Wolf Eyes, Iannis Xenakis...

Sounds Like:

"...bone-shattering, ego-melting music... shifts just as quickly into eerie bouts of beauty and sadness before dive-bombing back into the lake of burning blood." -- Foxy Digitalis

"With all the squawks, rasps, and synapse-smacking harmonics of John Zorn and Albert Ayler, the San Francisco duo Ettrick wields saxophones like some kind of pan-dimensional alarm clocks—or, at the very least, malfunctioning dentist's drills. But like the best free jazz, there's a deep intuition and discipline at work within the band's music... To top it all off, the twosome splices bits of Orthrelm-level metal into the frenetic jazz..." -- The Onion AV Club (Boulder/Denver)

"Total free music of total free form mayhem. No electronics are used in this recording, yet it sounds like a big crash course in noise... Quite hard hit to the face and play loud is more than recommended." -- Vital Weekly

"...But holy shit when the duo truly get going, they can outpace any current jazz duo like of couple of impalas sprinting towards the horizon. Of course they don't have any of the intricacies of those other groups since it's basically playing almost full blast as often as possible, but you don't need fucking intricacies when your album is called "Sudden Arrhythmic Death". Both J.'s are hell bandits on the kits, frequently choosing to play the sides/rims instead of the actual skins and when they both get on at the same time it makes for a vertigo-inducing psyche-pummelling soup, no shit. At their most aggressive I'd put Ettrick on equal terms with grindcore overlords like Fear of God, World, Arsedestroyer and so on... Gather Bennink, Corsano, Pearson, Graves, Mounier, Blair, Portnoy, Chippendale, even the dude from the Berzerker on their own kits in a one and a half flat, stick a coupla brass throats in the middle and have them play along to Napalm Death and Pig Destroyer records and that's the kind of intensity Ettrick are bringing to the table, with just two men on the job!" -- Outer Space Gamelan (http://outerspacegamelan.blogspot.com)

"Sudden Arrhythmic Death (American Grizzly, 2006), is an absolute must-have, a 15-minute live session recorded in Portland, Ore., that begins as an achingly radiant saxophone duet before it explodes into a maniacal barrage of beats that push the eardrum till white noise is the only sense the brain can make. It concludes with Ettrick's signature: bloodcurdling screams and the sound of drum kits being destroyed." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian

"...a bludgeoning amalgam of black metal and skronk sure to summon the apocalypse... an excruciating free jazz that feels like being trapped in a metal shed during a thunderstorm." -- San Francisco Bay Guardian

"a dizzying barrage... as if there were some sort of free jazz monkeys screaming and beating their chests wildly... pelting the listener with sonic stones and hurling great handfuls of free jazz dung! Intense and aggressive and furiously freaked out." -- Aquarius Records

Record Label:

Not Not Fun, American Grizzly, self-released