William Hooker-

Hard Time CD


William Hooker
Hard Time CD (Squealer 026) 1998

With the songs: "Computer Glasses", "Lincoln's Microchip", "Abandoned", "Cloning (the Self)", "The T.V. Wall", "Robot Driver" and "Slaughtered Lambs".

William Hooker-Drums Donald Miller-Guitar Doug Walker-Synthesizer Jesse Henry-Guitar Richard Keene-Sax

Squealer Music is proud to be associated with improvisational drummer extraordinaire William Hooker. Recorded live at CBGB's in New York City on August 16, 1994 and December 1, 1995, Hard Time is an intense document of Hooker's powerful ensemble of the time, which included Jesse Henry, Doug Walker, Richard Keene, and Donald Miller, a member of Borbetomagus and Lhasa Cement Plant. From the opening strains of "Computer Glasses", Hooker and the band set off on a journey that will leave the listener gasping for breath. The enormity of the sound is stunning; Hooker sounds like a man possessed, and his occasional agonized shouts only amplify the fact that this is an artist pushing himself to his limits. The band picks up on the lead, and their melodic maelstrom is the lid blowing off the pressure cooker. Steam heat, indeed. William Hooker plays freely improvised music that is unlimited in it's scope. He is a tireless performer who is willing to venture into a variety of experimental situations to give expression to his abstractions. This wide ranging experimentation has taken him from Alice Tully Hall at New York's Lincoln Center, to the (literal) basements of the meat-packing district and collaborations with turntable experimentalist DJ Olive at the Cooler. Hooker has released albums on some of the most adventurous record labels in the world, including Silkheart, Ecstatic Peace, Homestead, Knitting Factory Works and Table of the Elements. He has performed in the company of some of improvised music's greatest players: William Parker, Thurston Moore, David Murray, David S. Ware, Lee Ranaldo, Thomas Chapin, D.J. Spooky, Marc Ribot, Billy Bang and many, many more.

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