Flying Luttenbachers
| The Flying Luttenbachers | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Genres | Noise rock, punk jazz |
| Years active | 1991–2007, 2017– |
| Labels |
Skin Graft Records Troubleman Unlimited ugEXPLODE Records |
| Website | Official site |
| Members | Weasel Walter drums |
| Past members |
Hal Russell sax, trumpet (1991-1992) Chad Organ tenor sax (1991-1994) Ken Vandermark reeds (1992-1994) Jeb Bishop bass, trombone (1993-1994) Dylan Posa guitar (1993-1994, 1998) Chuck Falzone guitar (1995-1998) William Pisarri bass (1995-1998) Kurt Johnson bass (1998-2000) Michael Colligan reeds (1998-2000) Fred Lonberg-Holm cello (1998-2000) Julie Pomerleau violin (1998) Johnathan Hischke bass (2001-2002) Alex Perkolup bass (2001-2002) Mike Green bass (2003-2005, 2006) Mick Barr guitar (2005) Ed Rodriguez guitar (2003-2006) Rob Pumpelly guitar (2006) |
The Flying Luttenbachers were an American instrumental unit led by multi-instrumentalist / composer / producer Weasel Walter. The Luttenbachers have created a large body of work focusing on an agenda of musical extremity and dissonance. Over the course of the band, the personnel has shifted numerous times around the artistic leadership of Walter, each line-up revealing a different part of the Flying Luttenbachers' aesthetic. The music has run a gamut from intense, all-acoustic free improvisation, to complex, modernistic rock composition; pure electronic noise to primitive punk-inspired jazz. The music defies idiomatic cliché and is steadfastly abstract, choosing to work outside of pre-existing genres in order to attain an original fusion. Walter has been quoted as drawing inspiration from the fields of hardcore punk, black metal, progressive rock, free jazz, no wave, electronic noise, contemporary classical, Balinese gamelan and Noh music.
The Flying Luttenbachers formed in December 1991 in Chicago, Illinois as a punk jazz trio, with Hal Russell (tenor and soprano saxophones, trumpet), Chad Organ (tenor saxophone) and Weasel Walter (drums). The band derived their moniker from Russell's birthname, Harold Luttenbacher. Russell left the band in June 1992, and was soon replaced by Ken Vandermark for the recording of the Flying Luttenbachers' first 7" record.
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