john cage 1912 - 1992
La No-Neck Blues Band está formada por ocho miembros: se reúnen semanalmente para tocar en parques públicos, tejados, galerías de arte. No hay estructura prevista; cada uno de ellos elige el instrumento que tocará en cada ocasión. No hay repertorio prefijado, ni siquiera existen canciones tal y como las conocemos. Lo que surge de sus actuaciones, y lo que aparece en sus numerosas grabaciones, es el momento mismo, la manera en que interrelacionan dando forma a un cuerpo sonoro común. Para Dave Nuss, miembro de la banda, “lo que hacemos fluye desde nuestro interior y trata sobre cómo ponerse de acuerdo con los demás. Nuestra música no tiene nada que ver con algo que elijamos, con un propósito consciente de llegar a algún sitio prefijado”.
...Según Nuss, “ese lugar del que queremos escapar no es un lugar real. Se aloja en nuestra mente. Ninguno de nosotros piensa en sí mismo, simplemente trata de agarrarse a un impulso colectivo que surge espontáneamente. Sólo tenemos que situarnos dentro de él y dejarnos llevar”.
United States Live (1984), portada
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Their early work was characterized by theatrical live performances and unconventional recording methods; for example The One Burned Ma, their second full-length album, contains no tracks on which all four members appear. Having self-released a handful of cassettes and CDRs, they came to the attention of Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound, who revived his United Dairiesimprint to release The Inhazer Decline, their first full-length album. However, a proposed collaboration with Nurse With Wound was not completed. They continued to release regular live CDRs on their own Volucan imprint, and later albums such as Five Hundred Boy Piano and much of The Idea Of Wood were performed live in the studio.
A hiatus in group activity occurred in the early part of the 2000s with Mott and Moore reviving their pre-Volcano the Bear unit Songs Of Norway. Manuelo created an album andEP as Earthtrumpet. Padden founded The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden initially as a solo project, later expanded to a quartet, with Chris Hladowski and Aby Vulliamy (both of Nalle), and Peter Nicholson. This unit has subsequently issued its releases as "The One Ensemble", with Padden releasing an album in 2006 of his solo material under his own name. Padden has also played with the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spires That in the Sunset Rise is the musical collaboration of Kathleen Baird, Taralie Peterson, Tracy Peterson, and Georgia Vallas. Steeped in primal experimentalism and world eclecticism, the music is a repellant and magnetizing swarm of harps, guitars, cello, drums, harmonium, banjo, mbira, spike fiddle, bells, and vocals.
Now based in Chicago, Illinois, the four musicians have been playing music in different formations for over 10 years. Through these relationships, the music has evolved into a synthesis of various influence, with an arduous search of the unexamined (albeit darker sides) of folk music.
otros discosSpires That In The Sunset Rise - Curse The Traced Bird (2008)
