...a monster of a player ...a killer tour de force of post everything guitar damage. (Larry Nai, Signal To Noise)

...manipulated his sounds with the skill of a mad scientist. (Bruce Gallanter, Downtown Music Gallery Newsletter)

Tammen’s self-described “endangered” guitar style slashes through idiomatic norms, conjuring soundscapes and stabbing intensity. (Sean Fitzell, AllAboutJazz New York).

...fingers stuck in a high-voltage outlet (Touching Extremes, Massimo Ricci)

...clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s. (François Couture, All Music Guide)

Hans Tammen has his own way of playing the guitar... (New York Times)

...one of the most ferociously talented and inventive guitarists to emerge in the last ten years. His technique is noisy and percussive, his energy relentless and unstoppable. (Richard Cochrane, Musings)

White-hot solo guitar work... Recent years have seen a slew of fine free guitarists emerge..., but nothing they've done so far packs this kind of punch... (Dan Warburton, Signal to Noise)

Tammen, an incredibly confounding and visionary improviser on acoustic and electric guitar... (Steve Brydges, Copperpress)

Now that Hans Tammen is settled in the States, the German experimentalist best known for playing "endangered guitar" is becoming a lightning rod for European improvisers who share his fearlessness. (Time Out New York)

Charlie Christian and Les Paul knew they were on to something, something new and perhaps revolutionary, but they could hardly have imagined the things that Hans Tammen does to guitar, and the sounds he coaxes from it. (Brian Marley, Avant Magazine)

Musique sans concession... la provocante guitare de Hans Tammen. (Luc Bouquet, ImproJazz)

Tammen in particular has a startlingly original command of guitar effects, and, when he references the standard noises, he cracks them open to sift through the sense inside. (Joe Milazzi, One Final Note)

If Tammen had been around in the late 1950s, who would have needed the electric guitar? (Stephen Loewy, SamGoody)

Tammens Gitarre ist nicht von dieser Welt, von daher hat sie uns viel Neues zu erzählen. (My Way)

Until the balance of the world´s corrupt zoologists calling themselves guitarists learn how to breed their charges in captivity, Tammen is one of the few gatekeepers we should trust with the keys. (Bananafish)

Since sound explorers like the... German Tammen have decided to devote their careers to... radically detuning and reverse-engineering an electric guitar, they should really be celebrated for the new tones they create. (Ken Waxman, JazzWeekly)

His use of the Ebow redefines the gadget. (François Couture, All Music Guide)

Geräuschhafte Improvisationen, die das Klangspektrum der E-Gitarre auch wirklich erkunden. (Testcard)

Guitarist Tammen is exemplary throughout. (Dan Warburton, Paris Transatlantic)

...martialische, atonale Klangwelten, die Hans Tammen mit schier unglaublicher Rafinesse und zahllosen Hilfsmitteln der Gitarre entlockte. (Magdeburger Volksstimme)

Tammen´s incredible 22 Minutes on Bowed & Popped might be the listening equivalent of a lethal injection for a number of my colleagues, but it makes me want to start a nonprofit corporation solely for the commissioning of a work for fingernails and chalkboard. (Bananafish)

Wer jetzt noch sagt, Experimente, und besonders die auf der Gitarre, hätten keine Zukunft, der muss "Endangered Guitar" von Hans Tammen hören. Dann lässt sich anderer Schrammeln gnädig ertragen. (Klaus Hübner, Westzeit)

Tammen beherrscht den Prozess der freihändigen Klangerzeugung mit Souveränität. (Klaus Hübner, Westzeit)

The skilled musicianship and overall execution is fascinating, especially Hans Tammen´s wild and somewhat unusual approach to the electric guitar. (Glen Astarita, All About Jazz)