Rich - Percussion, political theory.
Ben - Saxophone, bad jokes.
Influences
Emma Goldman, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, John Gruntfest, Rorschach, Cecil Taylor, Jurgen Habermas, Malcolm X, Peter Brotzmann, Peter Kropotkin, Susie Ibarra, Pheer-oan AkLaff, Ornette Coleman, Frank Lowe, Frank Wright (not the architect/designer, but OK him too), Arthur Doyle, Born Against, Oliver Lake, Dune, John Sayles, Murray Bookchin, Milford Graves, Rashied Ali, Muhammad Ali (not the boxer), Karl Marx, Alvin Fielder, Sunny Murray, Kidd Jordan, Ivo Perelman, Bill Dixon, Mikhail Aleksandrovitch Bakunin, Archie Shepp, Oluyemi Thomas, Manfred Schoof, Lysander Spooner, Kaoru Abe, Bhagat Singh, bagels, day old and cold crispy soul "chicken" from Vegetarian's Paradise, and of course, the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, excluding Adorno's rather uncritical bias against jazz.
Sounds Like
Acoustic improvisational noise, freejazz, out, charted and uncharted explorations of sonic unpleasantries, with some melody here and there to help you forget what's fiercer than electricity.
Rich was 1/3 Judas Iscariot and Ben was 1/4 That's All She Wrote. Then together we made 2/3 Countdown to Putsch. Then the other 1/3 moved away so we became 2/2 Fire & Flux. Then we both moved out of NYC. Rich is now in the End Times Trio. Ben plays in Thicket. F&F is still going to tour sometime.
