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Emerging out of Amsterdam s vibrant squat scene in 1979 The Ex a name chosen for the ease and speed with which it could be spray painted onto a wall have for four decades been an entirely self sustaining musical entity charting a course through the global underground with a...
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Emerging out of Amsterdam s vibrant squat scene in 1979 The Ex a name chosen for the ease and speed with which it could be spray painted onto a wall have for four decades been an entirely self sustaining musical entity charting a course through the global underground with a...
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To understand the significance of the word featuring on Featuring Pharoah Sanders And Black Harold consider how infrequently Sun Ra used it and the exact way it had been used The October Revolution in Jazz organized by Bill Dixon in the West Village in 1964 presented a vivid cross section...
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Originally released in 1974 on Shandar Dream House 78 17 is the second full length album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela This first time US edition reproduces the original gatefold sleeve with beautiful calligraphy by Zazeela and liner notes by Young and French musicologist Daniel Caux Side one...
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In the swirl of underground music emerging from Dunedin New Zealand in the 1980s Peter Gutteridge stands as one of the era s most intense and shadowy figures Despite being a founding member of The Clean and The Chills Gutteridge would eschew indie rock fame for the hypnotic and driving...
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The late percussionist Milford Graves was one of the most unique artists the world has ever seen Born in Jamaica Queens in 1941 he began his career in the early Äô60s as a part of New York Äôs vibrant Latin jazz scene His focus quickly turned inward shifting towards a...
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The late percussionist Milford Graves was one of the most unique artists the world has ever seen Born in Jamaica Queens in 1941 he began his career in the early Äô60s as a part of New York Äôs vibrant Latin jazz scene His focus quickly turned inward shifting towards a...
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By the early Äô70s Milford Graves had more or less stopped gigging Having learned his lesson the hard way in multiple night runs like a legendary Slugs Äô residency with Albert Ayler he knew that the level of energy that he put out during a performance would be difficult to...
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The Fall returned to Rough Trade in 1983 to release a pair of singles ÄúThe Man Whose Head Expanded Äù and ÄúKicker Conspiracy Äù and Perverted By Language their sixth proper studio album Perverted By Language hints at the band Äôs shift towards a distinctly pop approach one that they...
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Sounds While Waiting documents the latest organ works by composer and musician Ellen Arkbro following her phenomenal debut 2017 s For Organ And Brass and the more recent CHORDS Recorded at a centuries old church in Unnaryd Sweden in June 2020 these pieces reveal the enchanting qualities of sustained harmonic...
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Glenn Branca s first full length album The Ascension is a colossal achievement After touring much of 1980 with an all star band featuring four guitarists Branca fellow composers Ned Sublette and David Rosenbloom and future Sonic Youth member Lee Ranaldo along with Jeffrey Glenn on bass and Stephan Wischerth...
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Another legendary one out Superior Viaduct the super rare and amazing debut by sax flute player Byard Lancaster on Atlantic s subsidiary label Vortex dedicated to avant garde jazz Featuring Sonny Sharrock on guitar Quoting the Andy Beta s brilliant review on Pitchfork When John Coltrane succumbed to cancer in...
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An extraordinary piece of energy music that goes way beyond jazz A legendary album produced by Herbie Mann and originally released in 1969 on the Atco subsidiary Vortex Sonny Sharrock and his wife Linda recorded these tracks with a cast of New York free jazz all stars including pianist Dave...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 Grey...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 I R S...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ike Yard remain a legendary band of early 80s New York City at once immensely influential yet obscured by a far too brief initial phase Their debut EP the dark and absorbing Night After Night sounds almost like a different group so rapidly would Ike Yard evolve towards the calmly...
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Taped live in 1970 amidst the growing Black Nationalist movement and borrowing its title opening refrain from poet writer Amiri Baraka Joe McPhee s Nation Time combines strains of funk and free jazz in a way that feels like Pharaoh Sanders sitting in with...
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