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La Monte Young was born in Bern, Idaho in 1935 He began his music studies in Los Angeles and later Berkeley, California before relocating to New York City in 1960, where he became a primary influence on Minimalism, the Fluxus movement and performance art through his legendary compositions of extended time durations and the... -
Cluster was the pioneering German duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius Formed on the cusp of the 1970s, they were a part of West Germany’s nascent Kosmische Musik scene The group would use restrained improvisational techniques similar to Gruppo Nuova Consonanza, working with both electric and acoustic instruments...
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Cluster was the pioneering German duo of Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius Formed on the cusp of the 1970s, they were a part of West Germany’s nascent Kosmische Musik scene The group would use restrained improvisational techniques similar to Gruppo Nuova Consonanza, working with both electric and acoustic instruments...
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American composer and multi-instrumentalist Alvin Curran has remained one of the great emblems of experimental music for the last half-century In 1966, along with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, Curran co-founded Musica Elettronica Viva, a seminal gesture in collective free improvisation In the early ’70s, his solo work...
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1990’s Recurring, the fourth and final studio album by Spacemen 3, is often considered the introduction of two brilliant solo projects (Spectrum and Spiritualized) rather than the work of a functioning band While Spacemen 3’s departing statement surely reveals a deep divide within the S3 camp—each side of the LP was written...
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Hopeton Brown, better known as Scientist, has been a pioneering figure in the world of dub for 40 years His early love of electronics proved fruitful when (still a teenager) he was hired at King Tubby’s studio in Kingston Brown quickly ascended the ranks and became heir to Tubby’s throne, producing imaginative and technically...
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David Cunningham was born in Ireland in 1954 His work ranges from pop music to gallery installations including several collaborations with visual artists His first significant commercial success came with The Flying Lizards' single "Money," an international hit in 1979 Originally released in 1976, Cunningham's first solo album...
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Of all the releases on Italy’s legendary Cramps Records, Raul Lovisoni and Francesco Messina’s seminal LP from 1979 has long remained among the most beloved Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo not only introduced the world to the work of two gifted composers, but also is notable for being produced by electronic pioneer Franco...
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The Rough Trade Singles collects The Fall's four singles recorded for this influential label in 1980 and 1983 – How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' / City Hobgoblins, Totally Wired / Putta Block, The Man Whose Head Expanded / Ludd Gang and Kicker Conspiracy – none of which appeared on any of the band's studio LPs With 7-inches being the...
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Gavin Bryars was born in Yorkshire, England in 1943 His first musical forays were as a jazz bassist working in the early 1960s with improvisors Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley Bryars later worked with composers John Cage and Cornelius Cardew, founded the Portsmouth Sinfonia and collaborated with Brian Eno on his famed Obscure...
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Soon after their 1978 debut on the Brian Eno-produced No New York, a compilation that defined the No Wave scene, James Chance’s group Contortions had already evolved—getting sharper, tighter and just plain faster Despite the loss of keyboardist Adele Bertei and bassist Geoge Scott (who refused to sign a new contract demanded...
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The legend of CRIME looms large among punk aficionados the world over Formed in the mid-1970s, the band’s dual-guitar sound, confrontational image and sleazed methodology still serve as inspiration decades later With only a handful of singles released during their active lifespan, CRIME’s legacy grew significantly as archival...
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Prima Materia was a vocal improvisation ensemble, founded by Roberto Laneri in 1973 Composed entirely of vocalists with no academic training, the group developed various techniques—revolving mostly around the use of overtones—that would embody their unique sound No instruments nor electronic manipulations were ever employed...
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In the summer of 1981, The Fall embarked on their second American tour, criss-crossing the States over a two-month period Featuring the dual guitar of Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon and rhythm section of Stephen Hanley and Karl Burns, A Part Of America Therein, 1981 would document this fabled journey with crucial performances that...
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For five decades, Harold Budd stood on the forefront of the West Coast avant-garde Born in Los Angeles, he studied with Schoenberg-pupil Gerald Strang and began teaching at CalArts in 1970 While searching for his own voice, he was influenced as much by abstract expressionist painters as by John Cage and Morton Feldman In his work,...
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Francesco Messina is perhaps best known for his collaboration with fellow composer Raul Lovisoni on the album Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo, originally released on seminal Italian label Cramps in 1979 Along with contemporaries Franco Battiato, Juri Camisasca and Giusto Pio, Messina would help reshape the world of modern...
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If The Fall truly is a cult band, then Slates both benefits from and reinforces such shrouded obsessions In presenting these six particular songs as a 10" EP, the inherent and attractive difficulty of The Fall's sound is made physical, framing the urgency of their singles from this period (notably How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' and Lie...
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Composer, multi-instrumentalist and mixed-media artist, Takehisa Kosugi has stood on the forefront of the Japanese avant-garde for over six decades In the 1960s, he was part of Japan’s first improvisational music collective, Group Ongaku, and contributed to Fluxus in New York In 1969, he founded the influential, experimental...
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If your brain has a shortlist of bands that instantly evoke New Wave, Suburban Lawns deserve a slot right next to the likes of Devo, Talking Heads and the B-52’s After putting out two singles on their own Suburban Industrial imprint, the Lawns signed to IRS Records and released their debut LP in 1981 While the band gained cult...
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In 1981, The Ex started squatting Villa Zuid, an estate overlooking abandoned Van Gelder paper factory in the village of Wormer, Netherlands Formerly the home of the factory’s manager, the Villa briefly served as the band’s base of operations and would inspire one of The Ex’s most impactful, enduring albums in their 40+ year...
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Spacemen 3 began assembling their third album, 1988's Playing With Fire, at perhaps the freest, most confident point in their career Recording began with the band road-tested and rugged, even amidst the functional volatility that famously motivated their course The sessions' first offering came in the form of "Revolution," a...
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August 1988, Spacemen 3 embark on one of the strangest events in the band’s already strange history Billed as “An Evening Of Contemporary Sitar Music” (although consciously omitting the sitar), the group would play in the foyer of Watermans Arts Centre in Brentford, Middlesex to a largely unsuspecting and unsympathetic...
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Originally released in 1972, Lord Of Lords was Alice Coltrane's final album for Impulse! and the last installment in her awe-inspiring trilogy that also included Universal Consciousness and World Galaxy While all three records featured strings alongside a jazz ensemble, Lords Of Lords stood apart from its predecessors due to the...
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