If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells

If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells is an album by a free jazz trio consisting of German bassist Peter Kowald, American trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, and German drummer Günter Sommer, which was recorded live in 1981 and released on the German FMP label.[1] The two tracks from the side A of the album were combined on the CD reissue with Touch the Earth, another album by the same trio.[2]

If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells
Live album by
Peter Kowald, Wadada Leo Smith, Günter Sommer
Released1983
RecordedSide A: January 29, 1981
Side B: May 5, 1981
VenueSide A: Flöz, Berlin
Side B: Drensteinfurt
GenreJazz
Length37:46
LabelFMP
ProducerJost Gebers
Wadada Leo Smith chronology
Go in Numbers
(1982)		 If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells
(1983)		 Human Rights
(1986)

Reception

In his review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek states about the Touch the Earth - Break the Shells reissue "This is music of the mind, certainly, but it is also from the body and the earth itself. This is free jazz that sings!."[3]

The JazzTimes review by John Murph says about the reissue "Both wild and peaceful, Touch The Earth-Break the Shells, is an invigorating post-Art Ensemble of Chicago experience."[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Smith / Kowald / Sommer

  1. "Unlost Time" – 7:58
  2. "Rastafari in the Universe" – 11:55
  3. "Break the Shells [thanks to Eckehart and Evan]" – 17:53

Personnel

References
  1. "Wadada Leo Smith discography". Jazz Lists. jazzlists.com. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  2. If You Want the Kernels You Have to Break the Shells on FMP
  3. Jurek, Thom. Peter Kowald – Touch the Earth - Break the Shells: Review at AllMusic. Retrieved August 15, 2017.
  4. Shanley, Mike Touch the Earth - Break the Shells review at JazzTimes
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