NO NEW YORK - 1979

"...Alla fine degli anni ’70 New York downtown è tra le più fertili scene artistiche del momento, un crogiolo di esperienze tra le più disparate: cinema, danza, scrittura, teatro, musica (influenze punk, garage, funk, free jazz, black music, musica d’avanguardia), arte (con importanti ascendenze warholiane)..." ©2005 Antonello Comunale e Teresa Greco

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"...Welcome to the unwave. I haven't heard so much ferociously avant-garde and aggressively ugly music since Albert Ayler puked all over my brain back in - what? - 64. And like Ayler, who started at the end of his development and then started working his way backward (and eventually jumped into the Hudson River for a permanent swim), this music has no future. But it does have a vindictive present. It's a nihilistic burnt-out last blast of mangled energy that scours the spirit. Its cleansing power that is unreal - spend a few hours with this record and then everything sounds different..."
©A review by Richard C. Walls, from Creem, April 1979

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http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/creem79b.html


"...and so it was with the avant-garde no wave wing of New York City's punk scene in the late '70s. The small coterie of bands (as institutionalized on Brian Eno's No New York compilation, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Mars, the Contortions and DNA) that formed a rebellion inside the greater rebellion pulled like an undertow against the hipster punk rock realm, instantly belittling into relative mundanity those who had rejected mainstream music only to accept its ingenious Bowery variants. The distance from ELP's uber-technique to Talking Heads' tensed weirdness telescoped to an inch when measured against Arto Lindsay's frenzied guitar scrabblings and incomprehensible yelps..."
©Ira Robbins / Mark Fleischmann / Robert Payes

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Consigli/Suggestions
No New York - Antilles
NEW YORK NOISE - souljazzrecords

Comunicato #1 - Libertà

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