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about|the musical group|the Celtic city|Worms, GermanyRefimprove|date=December 2010Infobox musical artist| name = Borbetomagus| image = Don Dietrich &Jim Sauter12.jpg| caption = Don Dietrich and Jim Sauter| background = group_or_band| genre = Free jazz , noise rock | years_active = 1979 - present| label = Agaric| associated_acts = Voice Crack , Tristan Honsinger , Peter Kowald , Hijokaidan | website = URL|borbetomagus.com| current_members = Don Dietrich (musician)|Don Dietrich Donald Miller Jim Sauter (musician)|Jim Sauter | past_members = Adam Nodelman Borbetomagus are a free improvisation / noise music group. They are cited by criticsAllmusic|class=artist|id=p25447|pure_url=yes Allmusic.com as pioneers of aggressive improvised noise music.
Biography
Borbetomagus formed in 1979 when saxophone players Jim Sauter (musician)|Jim Sauter and Don Dietrich (musician)|Don Dietrich joined with electric guitar ist Donald Miller. Bass guitarist Adam Nodelman was briefly a member, and they have occasionally collaborated with others.
Their aggressive music has been described as "a huge, overpowering, take-no-prisoners mass of sound." http://www.furious.com/perfect/borbetomagus.html Furious.com One extended technique they use is called "bells together" where Sauter and Dietrich place the bells (openings) of their saxophones against one other while playing.
While the core trio listed above has been responsible for most of Borbetomagus's music, they have collaborated with Swiss circuit bending duo Voice Crack , Dutch cellist Tristan Honsinger , German double-bassist Peter Kowald , and others. In 2006, they recorded a collaborative album with Hijokaidan live at the Festival de Musique Actuelle in Victoriaville, Canada, and in 2007 their long out-of-print cassette Live In Allentown was released on CD with nearly twice as much material as the original. Sauter and Dietrich have also recorded a duo CD, and a collaborative CD with Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore .
Name
Borbetomagus refers to the Celts|Celtic origin of the Germany|German city of Worms, Germany|Worms .
Influence
They are considered widely influential on the Japanese noise music scene, as demonstrated by the re-release of their limited Live At Inroads cassette on CD by the Japanese label P.S.F. Records , as well as having a CD released by Osaka-based noise label Alchemy Records .
They have been influential on many American rock, free jazz , and noise musicians, such as Sonic Youth, Pelt (band)|Pelt , Thomas Ankersmit , and Kevin Drumm . Miller has worked with Pelt; he now resides in New Orleans , where he frequently collaborates live with Rob Cambre and others on E-Bow ed guitars.
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