1. Born Broke 21:45
2. Beautiful But Stupid 13:33
3. Ain´t Got The Money 22:29
4. Dead And Useless 38:24
5. Welcome to a Concert at Nefertiti 2nd September 2006 00:22
6. Concert at Nefertiti part one 27:05
7. 2nd part at Nefertiti 10:37
8. 3rd part at Nefertiti 11:04
9. Final part of the concert at Nefertiti September 2, 2006 16:01
10. Dead And Useless LP side A 19:09
11. Dead And Useless LP side B 18:18
12. Born Broke EP part 1 10:54
13. Born Broke EP part 2 10:55
14. Born Broke promo-demo-teaser (excerpt) 06:54
Tenor sax, clarinet, alto sax (track 6), cover art: Peter Brötzmann
Drums and album producer: Peeter Uuskyla
Engineer at Bohus Sound Recording: Dragan Tanaskovic
Recorded September 9, 2006 at Bohus Sound Recording, Sweden.
Originally released 2008 by Atavistic, USA as the 2CD-album Born Broke 2008 and the longest track "Dead and Useless" was released on 12" vinyl by Omlott, Sweden 2014.
+ The first tour ever with this Brötzmann/Uuskyla sax and drum duo was happening the week prior the studio recording date. An audience DAT-walkman recorder captured the concert at the Nefertiti jazzclub in Gothenburg on September 2, 2006. On track 5-9 you hear the first sketches of what was to become the musical statement titled Born Broke a week later.
PETER BRÖTZMANN asked me to write some notes about me walking the quite hard and dirty road of musicmaking. The liferoad of the one life you have. Been fighting all the time for playing untouchable sounds of simple music, my definition of beauty. Untouchable, therefore powerful. Simple, therefore universal, for everyone. Music that belongs to everybody. Take it or leave it, but you are not able to keep it only for yourself. That´s the strength. Sometimes the struggle is too hard and you just have enough of the terrible conditions around the playing. The lowbudget touring, the stupidity, the curators, the organizers, the ones with power to decide who plays where and what.
Geniusgrants killing natural musicmaking because of simple music being just to simple, not being complex and confusing enough. To illustrate bigheaded nonsense with living music makes you fall into a trap where pure joyful musicmaking is forbidden although sold as free jazz, freely improvised, spontaneous, creative music! This is the situation you have to deal with. Days of solidarity and bands kept together are long gone. Replaced by common egopower and loneliness among millions of lonely people in the big cities. You are also alone when making your musical statement. Alone together but still basically alone. Got to be strong to face that kind of reality. My eternal Sisyphusical circle is playing music for the strength to keep going.
Nobody tells me anymore what and whom to play with. Not even Peter Brötzmann. He anyway never has. I have always liked his way of making music with his beautiful, deep, total sounding horn. No rehearsals, instead you have to bring yourself together, prepare, get ready, concentrate, pay attention and when time comes take off. That´s the way this music is made. Dragan Tanaskovic recorded the small drumkit and the saxophone with his old tube microphones in his large studioroom.
Quite a comfortable recording situation. No amplification, not even monitorspeakers or headphones needed for this duo. The punch and the scream, the foundation of natural musicmaking! Living in this complicated, complex and confused society it is most important to make clear and honest statements. PEETER UUSKYLA
