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While Brötzmann typically perfoms with a power trio lineup of guitar, bass guitar and drum set, he only uses rock and roll and heavy metal music as a basis for his music. Brötzmann's technique has been praised: "...his attack on the instrument — explosive, obstreperous, large scale, textural, timbral — asserts the material facts of string-pickup-amplifier more bluntly than anyone else currently involved in rock". [1]
Brötzmann has been compared compared to Jimi Hendrix (perhaps an inevitable comparison for an adventurous left-handed Fender Stratocaster player prone to extreme loudness and deft manipulation of audio feedbackAudio feedback (also known as Larson effect) is a special kind of feedback which occurs when a loop exists between an audio input (eg. a microphones) and an audio output (eg. a loudspeaker). For example, a signal received by the microphone is amplified an), and to Edgar Varese, who, like Brötzmann, demonstrated a keen awareness for the importance of sound as well as properly notated music.
Brötzmann's father, Peter BrötzmannPeter Brotzmann (born March 6, 1941) is a German free jazz saxophonist. Brotzmann is among the most important European free jazz musicians. His rough, lyrical timbre is easily recognized on his many recordings. He studied painting in Wuppertal, but grew d is a free jazzFree jazz is a style of music developed in the 1950s and 1960s and pioneered by artists such as Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Eric Dolphy, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, BillDixon and Paul Bley. Some of the best known examples are the later works of John Co saxophone player. They have recorded a duo album, Last Home.