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Nihilist Spasm Band
No Record
Repress of 250 copies. One of very few indie label releases on Spin Magazine's list of 100 top counter-cultural music,
ahead of legends like Mulatu Astatke, Brigitte Fontaine, Parson Sound, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra,
Harry Partch, and Os Mutantes. Zowie! "In 1965, eight guys from London, Ontario, decided to start a free-improv group -
'free' to the point of building their own instruments, which they decided couldn't be set up to produce specific
pitches. The band got together once a week with their electric kazoos and kludged-together guitars and Art Pratten's
'pratt-a-various.' Their vocalist, schoolteacher Bill Exley, banged on a cooking pot and bellowed hilariously about
stupidity and destruction and Canada. They didn't treat what they were doing as an advanced, visionary form of
experimental music, but as a big, stupid, fun, ecstatic noise. By the '90s, noise artists finally recognized NSB as
their ancestors - and, almost 50 years after they started, the surviving members of the Nihilist Spasm Band still play
every Monday night while their children haunt loft spaces the world over." -Spin "The record youre holding is one of the
masterworks of that big gray area of noise/weirdo/freak-out music. Its still hard to believe that 'No Record' was
released in 1968. This was a time when popular music was still growing up, and these outsider guys from Canada came out
of nowhere and made this mindfuck of record that was years ahead of itself. And as with albums like 'Trout Mask
Replica', and 'The Faust Tapes', it still sounds fresh today. 'No Record' is mandatory listening." ~Lasse Marhaug. From
the master tapes. Huge insert with the band's story and rare photos.
Price
€ 26.95
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
15-10-2018
Label
Item-nr
401035
EAN
0778578313616
Availability
Not in stock