Download: Weasel Walter's Playful, Punchy Improvised Duet With Mary Halvorson, "Let's Get 'Em"

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​Ever since Weasel Walter relocated to Brooklyn a few years back, no wave's ambidextrous enfant terrible has been almost obnoxiously busy. His countless performances at Death By Audio, Zebulon and Issue Project Room have single-handedly made our loft-punk and freak-jazz shows exponentially uglier, meaner, more violent, more savage and more awesome. As a performer, Walter values speed, volume and venom, all of which are amply present on Ominous Telepathic Mayhem (out now via ugEXPLODE), his collection of high-velocity freestyles with some of New York's most bleeding-edge improvisers (Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson and Darius Jones) and London's Alex Ward. Walter is obviously adept with the Joey Baron-style jazzblast that usually makes his wall-of-sound improvs bustle with bile, but presented with only one sparring partner at a time, his sputterburst is both violent and fragile. On "Let's Get 'Em," he teams with YIMBY grad Mary Halvorson in front of the stage at Zebulon for a slapstick blur of punches, stabs and Beefheart grindcore.

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