FREE MUSIC QUINTET: Free Music 1 and 2 (ESP-DISK)

From the one-sheet:

“ESP-Disk' present a [2021] reissue of Free Music Quintet's Free Music 1 and 2, originally released in 1968.

Dutch drummer Pierre Courbois, an early adaptor of free jazz, had previously appeared on ESP-Disk' with Gunter Hampel (Music from Europe) in 1968 and that same year recorded this album in a farmhouse (as shown on the front cover) in the village of Weslum, home of group member Erwin Somer.

Personnel - Boy Raaymakers - trumpet, bugle, percussion; Peter Van Der Locht - soprano sax, tenor sax, piccolo flute, percussion; Erwin Somer - violin, vibraphone, percussion; Ferdinand Rikkers - bass, percussion; Pierre Courbois - percussion, leader; Onno Scholtze: producer, engineer.

Recorded in Welsum, Netherlands on June 24 and 25, 1968.”

*Current head of ESP-DISK calls this album “the most out record ESP ever released.” Take up the challenge and live free, 1, 2 and 3!!