“The trio of Jim Sauter (reeds), Don Dietrich (reeds) and Donald Miller (electric guitar) are practically an American institution at this point. For the better part of 2 decades they have raised the mantle on intense improvisational sound parameters into one of the most unique sound configurations heard on planet earth. Heavy noise, deeply coiled feedback manipulation, hair-raising electronic squeal & the ultimate in air propulsion explosiveness, all initiated by humans. Pretty much every home could use at least 1 Borbetomagus recording; this CD is a reissue of their debut album from 1980, with the addition of Brian Doherty on electronics. With a previously unreleased track.”

Reissue of the trio's self-titled 3rd LP.

Live at CBGB in 1993. Wild !!!

Reissue of classic and long hard to find Purge/Sound League album from 1987. Quartet session with the power-bass addition of Adam Nodelman.

“First album release in years from the trio of Jim Sauter (saxophones), Don Dietrich (saxophones) and Donald Miller (guitar). For over 2 decades they have raised the mantle on intense improvisational sound parameters into one of the most unique sound configurations heard on planet earth. Heavy noise, deeply coiled feedback manipulation, hair-raising electronic squeal & the ultimate in air propulsion explosiveness, all initiated by humans. This CD features live performances in Glasgow and London 1999.”

Jim Sauter & Don Dietrich (saxophones), Donald Miller (electric guitar), Adam Nodelman (bass guitar). The 3rd annual Halloween extravaganza. Recorded October 29, 1986. Reissue of cassette only release Live in Allentown (Lowlife LL02). Includes the entire second set with Scott Legath on electronics, not previously released.

'CD reissue of what was the 4th Borbetomagus album, originally released on LP by Agaric way back in 1983. The trio of Jim Sauter (reeds), Don Dietrich (reeds) & Donald Miller (guitar). Recorded NYC. May 7, 1982. Barbed Wire Maggots is a motherf**ker, even now, 23 years after it was recorded. Recorded at In-Roads on Mercer Street, Barbed Wire Maggots documents a gorgeous evening of extreme sonic dialogue. Sauter and Dietrich's reeds skinny-dip into virtual classicist free mode at times (think Coltrane having an erotic dream of Frank Wright), but more often they tangle like electric eels dropped like tampons from the poop hatch of a 747. Upper register bowel tingling never felt so good. Miller's guitar joins them up in the stratosphere, plugging raw current into metal bowls, sizzling like a wok full of stewardess jiz, just creating and distorting and worrying the fabric of the cosmos like some idiotic terrier-god from a lost part of the Upanishards. Everything just moves so beautifully here. All of the early Borbetomagus hallmarks are on display: the ducks-attacked-by-lawnmowers thing; the Wilhelm Reich Busts Another Cloud scenario; the angel-wire-thimble connection; the part about the cop car getting crushed by a bulldozer inside a maelstrom in a sewer drain - it's all here. What is most remarkable about the music on Barbed Wire Maggots is how fresh it still sounds. There're no clichés brunted about here, nothing that's time-coded in the least; it's even difficult to really categorize the music inside any genre. Jazz, industrial, rock, free... there are elements of all of those here. And they are blended and smashed together in ways that will make your hair feel lighter than feathers, lighter than maggots, lighter than anything. - Byron Coley.

'The maestros of improv noise (with a big N) with their album for Agaric from 1988. Some call it jazz, some call it improv, some call it noise. Two saxes (Jim Sauter & Don Dietrich) and one guitar (Donald Miller). Great intensity.

Recorded live at Pezner, Villeurbanne (France), December 4, 1998. Mastered by Trutone, NYC. Jim Sauter & Don Dietrich : saxophones, Donald Miller : electric guitar.

Sauter, Dietrich, Miller, joined by Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner