(First posted on Mark Is Cranky):

Sciatica is not a new genre of electronic music. No, instead, it is a condition where your sciatic nerve makes you wish you lived closer to San Francisco or Brooklyn so that those bridges might be taken advantage of (and I ain't talkin' about the view!)

Ah, it wouldn't work anyway. I think there's some sort of aniti-suicide thingy on the Golden Gate. The Brookyln Bridge? I'm not jumpin' in that nasty water, even if it is for the final dive.

So...instead I dug out (gingerly!) a recording that simulates what my sciatic nerve has been doing to me. Does The Laughing Owl simulate those burning pains running down the front of my thighs? We'll see.

Put free jazz drummer Han Bennink together with punk/experimental guitarist Terrie Ex and you just might get a close approximation of nerves gone crazy. Bennink seems to be leading the show here, but Ex does his best to hang in there. There's some serious guitar torture going on here. Bennink seems to play every single part of his kit right down to the hardware. "Free", it is. Looking for a melody? Leave now.

Ouch.