Browse by Artist: NO NECK BLUES BAND

Artist:	NO NECK BLUES BAND
Title:	Qvaris
Label:	5 RUE CHRISTINE
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	GER 052CD

2005 release. "Improvisation, over time, yields access to substratum vistas of altogether unseen colouration. This is characteristic of a place in which our music occurs. It may be heard simultaneously here on earth, it may be heard now in the future in surround-sound, DVD audio, via light pipe, etc. But due to its place of origin, it reaches us here without translation, solely as echoes sounding from an immaterial world. Not unlike the radio dish tuned into Space, hoping to catch some intergalactic communique, we've assumed responsibility for broadcasting the atmosphere surrounding the other intelligences combined among us."

Artist:	NO NECK BLUES BAND
Title:	Clomeim
Label:	LOCUST
Format:	2LP
Price:	$26.00
Catalog #:	LOCUST 113LP

Limited double vinyl LP version. "Locust is proud to announce the release of Clomeim, the new studio album from New York's No-Neck Blues Band. Clomeim is an evolution, a vital document of change in The No-Neck Blues Band's 15+ years of para-musical activity. This pivotal recording is a creative distillation of the collective at a new and startling saturation point. For three rainy days in March 2007, the seven-headed hydra that is NNCK holed up in Black Dirt Studios, their newly outfitted recording studio in the foothills of upstate New York. With a discipline and a clarity of vision they've rarely displayed before, the collective channeled all of their energies into hours of recording live, real-time improvisation. After months spent sculpting and recasting the raw material, Clomeim emerged -- a distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of Heresie era Univers Zero, and krautrock zenith Faust at their finest hour. Clomeim is that rare hybrid -- a rock exterior with a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover and a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages." Last copies...

Artist:	NO NECK BLUES BAND
Title:	Languid Red Marchetti
Label:	PLANAM (ITALY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$27.00
Catalog #:	PLANAM ZAUM

"Recorded close to the group's inception in 1994, Languid Red Marchetti is the NNCK sound in its empirical form, rhythmically a-linear and fundamentally abstract. While NNCK would go on to become a seven piece performing group, recording and touring extensively, this recording documents a smaller group of four original members engaged in the hermetically sealed sonic exploration which best locates their aesthetic origins. From the group's statement on Languid Red Marchetti: 'A proto-intuitive Latihan of feedback + pre-scaffold juxtaposition of layers which would come to constitute edifice, and eventually dwelling. Where we would soon occupy this sound, it here was a force in and of itself, its directionless propulsion compounding into substance and landscape.' This deluxe edition Planam LP comes with a NNCK generated essay on sound imaging through improvisation and is packaged in a full color jacket depicting 'The hypothetical dissolve/corruption + subsequent inevitable repetition of Suprematism.' Edition limited to 340 copies, with full-color cover, infra-Suprematist inner sleeve and ultra-liner notes insert by Keith Connolly."

Artist:	NO NECK BLUES BAND
Title:	Sticks and Stone Will Break My Bones But Names Will Never...
Label:	SOUND @ ONE
Format:	CD
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	S@1 050CD

..Hurt Me. Jewel-cased metallic-inked cover reissue of the out of print Revenant CD. "The No Neck Blues Band, adrift in the ozone-tinged air of lower & upper Manhattan for nearly a ghost decade, stood at a fork. To one side lay the path to continued avoidance of human contact, and lifetimes of hemeretic improvisational events. To the other side was the trail into a kind of new free-pub-fat-rock dynamism, attaching the head of Lou Gare to the body of Martin Stone. Which way they would go was never predictable. The myriad recordings & performances that No Neck produced during their first half-life existed more in the realm of spirit than of flesh. Even those who witnessed the performances or beheld the recordings had difficulty in ultimately grasping them. The faces of No Neck were transitory, in all senses of the word. Rock gesture, drone gesture, folk gesture, improv gesture, all of them traced smoky features across the band's collective visage, shifting like a big cloud of burned & exhaled cheeb. By the time No Neck hooked up w/ John Fahey, their image was fractal. Unable to hold -- or even define -- their center, fragmentation itself had become their milieu. Through records, they had discovered someone they believed to be a fellow traveler in Jerry Yester. When they found out that he had a studio in the Ozarks, they were on the first bus south. And when they came to the fork, they took it. Fahey smiled on this in his own weird way & here are the results. They have been in the process of becoming for longer than you can probably appreciate. Dig them now." --Byron Coley

Artist:	NO NECK BLUES BAND
Title:	Letters From The Earth
Label:	VERY FRIENDLY (UK)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	VF 031CD

UK reissue of this 1996 release, originally on Sound @ One/Ser. This double CD outputs 111 or so minutes worth of this group's dizzying array of sonic blattage, cable disruption, tribal tranceadelics and trip or drone aesthetic. I heard that this was largely recorded on a NYC rooftop, but you certainly can't hear any breeze -- there is, however, some serious driftage going on all over the place. Out-of-nowhere double album magnum opuses tend to go on to have genre defining significance, and it's easy to see this one having research visibility for decades to come, as the pinnacle of its contemporary scene. Packaged in a slimline jewel case (to assure those worried this thing would come wrapped in tree bark or something), with an intriguing multi-page booklet of almost Gysin-esque hieroglyphics.

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