Effective period / Period of releases: 2012

Members: Adam Ryan Kohl McCarthy Foam, Thom Simon, Ed Roland (2), Mark Johnson (43)

Since forming in Boston in 2012, BANG! BROS. have established themselves as trailblazing exponents of a fried strain of free jazz / noise improvisation built on the unpredictable live input of hands on drum machines and electronics. Big BANG! Theory lands on Hausu Mountain as a two-part set of tapes that follow 2016’s Food For Thoth (HAUSMO43), joining a catalog of nearly two dozen cassette releases and two LPs released on mainstay freak label Feeding Tube – one of which documented the band’s legendary (and still woefully under-acknowledged) world-record-breaking whirlwind of twelve shows in twelve different towns on 12/12/2012. The core duo of machine manglers Arkm Foam (based in Wendell, MA) and Mark Johnson (living in Brooklyn) evolves into some deranged conception of a jazz trio with the presence of saxophonist Andy Allen (ex-Guerilla Toss), whose horn alternately tethers BANG! BROS.’ freewheeling percussive jams to earth and sends them blasting off into overloaded climaxes of maniacal skronk. Animated as much by the mutant properties of their electronics as by the seemingly boundless extent of their physical dexterity, BANG! BROS. lay out their own unique incarnation of “free” music whose every moment bears the evidence of hands-on input, but whose composite sounds spiral off into unknown zones far beyond the corners of the extended DIY noise universe.