Skin Graft Records proudly presents a fully re-mastered, extended edition of The Flying Luttenbachers' landmark 1995 album Destroy All Music. This special edition, which features notorious drummer/multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter and renowned jazz saxophonist Ken Vandermark, captures the band at the height of the internal struggles that would soon dissolve the quintet line-up. In addition to the ten tracks featured on the original release, this comprehensive edition includes seven never-before-heard vintage recordings, all painstakingly re-mastered by bandleader Weasel Walter. Destroy All Music Revisited contains eighty minutes of wild, unhinged cacophony, fusing fiery free jazz improvisation with modern post-punk and noise-rock structures. This is an integral part of Chicago's underground musical heritage, a milestone in adventurous jazz, and a key component of the neo-no wave movement.

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The Flying Luttenbachers
Background information
Origin	Chicago, Illinois
Genre(s)	Noise Rock
Years active	1991–present
Label(s)	ugEXPLODE Records
Website	Official site
Members
Weasel Walter drums
Former members
Hal Russell sax, trumpet (1991-1992) Chad Organ tenor sax (1991-1994) Ken Vandermark reeds (1992-1994) Jeb Bishop bass, trombone (1993-1994) Dylan Posa guitar (1993-1994, 1998) Chuck Falzone guitar (1995-1998) William Pisarri bass (1995-1998) Kurt Johnson bass (1998-2000) Michael Colligan reeds (1998-2000) Fred Lonberg-Holm cello (1998-2000) Julie Pomerleau violin (1998) Johnathan Hischke bass (2001-2002) Alex Perkolup bass (2001-2002) Mike Green bass (2003-2005, 2006) Mick Barr guitar (2005) Ed Rodriguez guitar (2003-2006) Rob Pumpelly guitar (2006)

The Flying Luttenbachers are an instrumental unit led by multi-instrumentalist / composer / producer Weasel Walter.^[1] The Luttenbachers have created a large body of work focusing on an agenda of musical extremity and dissonance. Over the course of the band, the personnel has shifted numerous times around the artistic leadership of Walter, each line-up revealing a different part of the Flying Luttenbachers' aesthetic. The music has run a gamut from intense, all-acoustic free improvisation, to complex, modernistic rock composition; pure electronic noise to primitive punk-inspired jazz. The music defies idiomatic cliché and is steadfastly abstract, choosing to work outside of pre-existing genres in order to attain an original fusion.^[2] Walter has been quoted as drawing inspiration from the fields of hardcore punk, black metal, progressive rock, free jazz, no wave, electronic noise, modern classical, Balinese gamelan and Noh music.

Weasel Walter, 4/2/1998