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Is there anything more 'Capish' than punk-jazz?
In the beginning, there were the Saccharine Trust, led by Joe Baiza.
Joe Baiza is one of those who are just way too 'Capish,' a twisted genius of the electric guitar who, however, grew up on a diet of bread and free jazz, the kind that you really need to have your ears finely tuned to enjoy. In the Southern Californian scene, in the early Eighties, he was revered for what he was and showed, a respected mammasantissima nearing thirty, so much so that young talents like Gregg Ginn, Chuck Dukowski, Mike Watt, and D. Boon wanted him on their records.
At the same time, the Saccharine Trust, from that fantastic catalog, were probably the most alien, a post-punk that veered off into every tangent, and you truly have to be a 'Dark Magus' not to lose the path that leads from the stars back home.
Well... we hadn't heard anything yet! When, after the mid-Eighties, Baiza decided to give life to the Universal Congress Of, to make that absolute freedom intrinsic to be-bop even more explicit, that improvisation never for its own sake, the world was uncovered yet again.
Try this and the even more minimalist-radical 'This is Mecolodics.'
At that point, rest assured, Ornette Coleman will appear from the cover suggesting to you 'The Shape of Punk-Jazz to Come'...
PS: I’m giving you two, but the complete works should definitely be included.
