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This democracy included Nag, Bendle and Else Watt of Door And The Window, David Toop, Steve Beresford and Max Eastley (coming out of the anything goes improv scene), Viv Albertine of the Slits, Vivien Goldman (who was simultaneously recording the classic dub\/funk\/punk Dirty Washing 12\" on 99 Records which featured Beresford as well as Keith Levine, George Oban, Robert Wyatt, Adrian Sherwood and others) , Igor (Nag \u0026amp; Bendles roommate), parents of the members and many more..\\r\\nThe sound over the course of their career started off as rugged Door And The Window-ish songs\/pieces on the first single but by the 1st LP and 12\" evolved into an off-kilter songwriting style similar to that of Maher Shalal Hash Baz (Tori Kudo actually contributes liner notes which are unfortunately just in Japanese), Red Crayola, early Beat Happening, Good Missionaries and lesser knowns like Department Store Santas, Mark Tucker, Philip Johnson, etc.. By We Know Nonsense many songs have an almost lounge jazz style. This probably doesnt sound too appealing but the record does have its moments, including one of my fave 49 American songs (though some of the tracks are definitely not my bag).\\r\\nThe The Original 14-Track Single... CD compiles the 1979 Wonder Only 85 Pennies 7\" on N.B. Records (Nag \u0026amp; Bendles label) and the 1981, 10 track 12\" on Choo Choo Train Records as well as 6 bonus tracks from 1979. Wonder includes the 1st LP from 1980 (originally on Choo Choo Train) plus 7 tracks from their first live gig at the London Musicians Collective in 1980. We Know Nonsense is the second full length from 1982 (co-released originally by Choo Choo Train and Toops semi-legendary Quartz label) plus 3 bonus tracks from 81 featuring Nigel Coombes on violin.\\r\\nPackaged in thick miniature old LP style jackets with extensive liner notes and lyrics (in japanese and english).\\r\\n\"What might seem to others to be harsh reviews were to us wonderful complimentary fodder; swamped in kettle and saucepan percussion, a hearty shabbiness, amateurism viewed as a material virtue rather than a spiritual one, and the best quote of all, makes Swell Maps sound like Led Zeppelin.\" - Nag (Wonder liner notes).\\r\\n\"The 49 Americans were an experiment in the pursuit of happiness... Have fun! Play! Participate! 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They have been variously described as \"The Velvet Underground in a car crash\" and the \"art-punk Steely Dan.\" Formed in 1973 by vocalist Robin Hall, guitarist Chris Gray, multi-instrumentalist Randy Cohen, classically-trained viola player Boris (also known as Boris Policeband), and later joined by bassist George Scott (James Chance And The Contortions\/8-Eyed Spy\/John Cale) and new vocalist Stephen Barth, the first incarnation of Jack Ruby demoed two tracks in a Times Square recording studio in 1974; their signature tune, the nihilistic proto-punk \"Hit and Run\" -- sounding like some unholy blend of Raw Power-era Stooges, Velvet Underground and J.G. Ballards Crash -- and a bizarre number entitled \"Mayonnaise,\" based around Boris amplified viola and primitive electronic \"beats\" sequenced on Cohens Serge synthesizer. These two cuts were used to hustle additional studio time from Epic Records through Sly Stones A\u0026amp;R, Stephen Paley. Three more maniacal songs of arch art-punk with killer pop hooks -- \"Bored Stiff,\" \"Bad Teeth,\" and \"Sleep Cure\" -- were all recorded in one five to six hour session at Columbia Studios in May 1974. With Cohen patching musique concrète sounds through the Serge, set against Grays banshee guitar-playing and Halls snotty vocals, the Jack Ruby sound was formed. But a record deal evaded them. Cohen left and started a new career as a writer for Late Night With David Letterman and, later, as The Ethicist, a columnist for The New York Times solving readers ethical problems. In 1976, Hall and Gray reactivated Jack Ruby as a live-performing unit with George Scott on bass. They played harder, faster and louder than any other band in New York at that time. Their rehearsals at Matrix studios, and dusk-to-dawn parties at the Bowery apartment behind CBGBs shared by Gray and Scott, became a cult draw for other NYC punk and no wave musicians. Hall quit the band unexpectedly in 1977, days before their first scheduled gig. Jack Ruby continued on as a power trio with Gray, by now the only original member, taking over vocal duties for a couple of shows alongside Teenage Jesus And The Jerks and the Fleshtones, before disbanding for good after one last riotous show with new vocalist Stephen Barth at Maxs Kansas City, formerly stalking ground of the bands idols, The Velvet Underground. Hit and Run is a two-disc set of everything Jack Ruby recorded between 1973 and 1977 (across four incarnations of the band) that should see them acknowledged as one of the most radical and brilliantly original groups to emerge from the 1970s New York City music scene. Remastered from recently-discovered master tapes, the first disc collects all five of the bands studio recordings, which although 40 years-old still sound thrillingly urgent and modern, alongside a 1977 cassette of a band rehearsal, and a 2013 remix by producer Don Fleming. Disc two contains another side to Jack Ruby; a series of largely-electronic, avant-garde pieces from 1972 and 1974 -- nine short tracks that play like a library record, book-ended by two longer ones -- some of the earliest extant recordings made on a Serge synthesizer. What Jack Ruby left is a remarkable legacy of recorded music -- hidden for decades, now-revealed -- constituting a previously-unheard secret history of the New York City music scene of the early 1970s.\" - Saint Cecilia Knows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saint Cecilia Knows","offers":[{"title":"Double CD","offer_id":51949792455,"sku":"15614-SAINT CECILIA KNOWS","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/products\/R-5614416-1398663565-6188_jpeg.jpg?v=1571718169"},{"product_id":"maths-balance-volumes-absence","title":"MATHS BALANCE VOLUMES - Absence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Kye is proud to announce the release of Absence, the new LP by Maths Balance Volumes. Side A presents material recorded live at the Arts Center of St. Peter, Minnesota as part of Free Form Freakout's 'An Evening of Experimental and Improvised Sound' (04\/21\/17) while Side B gathers unreleased home recordings from the previous decade. 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