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''An interesting chronicle of a very interesting time in music.'' --The Telegraph
''Featuring well-researched quotes from those that were there, this is pivotal reading for anyone who wants to see that there was more to New York in the late 70s than The Ramones, Television and Blondie.'' --Dazed and Confused
''Brings this secret history vividly to life.'' --Village Voice
''Featuring well-researched quotes from those that were there, this is pivotal reading for anyone who wants to see that there was more to New York in the late 70s than The Ramones, Television and Blondie.'' --Dazed and Confused
''Brings this secret history vividly to life.'' --Village Voice
''Featuring well-researched quotes from those that were there, this is pivotal reading for anyone who wants to see that there was more to New York in the late 70s than The Ramones, Television and Blondie.'' --Dazed and Confused
''Brings this secret history vividly to life.'' --Village Voice
''Featuring well-researched quotes from those that were there, this is pivotal reading for anyone who wants to see that there was more to New York in the late 70s than The Ramones, Television and Blondie.'' --Dazed and Confused
''Brings this secret history vividly to life.'' --Village Voice
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Flashing through the New York underground in the late 1970s, No Wave was the ultimate anti-movement. Its bands consisted of artists and poets untrained in music, looking to explode rock and disappear before the smoke cleared. No Wave tells the fascinating story of this radical, anarchic and hugely influential musical movement. No Wave traces the history of this noisy and uncompromising genre, from its most famous names down to its many offshoots and sidetracks. From early pioneers like Suicide and Richard Hell, to forgotten treasures like Red Transistor and Bush Tetras, and descendents like ESG and Sonic Youth, No Wave charts all the cracks and crevices of a surprisingly diverse movement. The book also delves into No Wave cinema, where pioneers like Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, and Beth and Scott B. translated the aggression and innovation of No Wave music to the screen. Musicians often starred in these films, and figures like Jim Jarmsuch and Steve Buscemi first cut their teeth in this vibrant scene. Illustrated with rare and previously unseen concert photos, record covers, and other ephemera of the times, and featuring exclusive interviews with key protagonists from the scene, No Wave is the definitive guide to a genre whose sounds and ideas still vibrate through alternative culture today.
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Marc Masters has dug into the past to reassemble the cast of non Fame. All influenced by punk, whatever they try to say as they strode up on stage to bash out rhythmic shapes, composed of angular guttural chords to a machine like battering rhythm. The original adherents were James Chance, Lydia Lunch, Mars, DNA, Glenn Branca, Pat Place amongst others along with film makers Scot and Beth B. This book provides a plotted history, detailing the participants and their cultural legacy.
The author traces some of the subsequent impacts on outsider culture. The clang and screetch of the era has diminished, along with experimentation as the material world of corporate success, its desire for synthesis and harmony has ultimately glazed over the atonal jarring noise. The representation of the sleek machine, does not like dissonance in any shape or form. This avant revolt has therefore been consigned to the backwater.
Does it say anything? The reason why it still carries a messae is it explored an inner state, rather than the external political worlds of Dead Kennedy's, Sex Pistols or the Clash. It also illuminates a particular candle; with enough belief and imagination, anyone can create a scene. The emphasis was on finding a personal voice, that had been stomped on, as opposed to being subsumed within a collective reduction of what happened next; wimp pop, nouveau pop or gluebag Oi.
The book is a large one, and filled with black and white pictures of the participants, looking young and angry, snapped in an era. The writing puts into context the various bands who appeared in the famous comp "No New York". Bowie and Eno looked into the scene and pulled some of the particiants into a structure. The author does a descent job at looking into the social context. This is extremely welcome because most muso journalists operated in a cultural vacuum, a little Prisoner bubble where nothing seemingly impacted from the outside world on their sacred sound.
It is written from a fans view, a labour composed of love, rather than the usual soundbites some Oxbridge journo throws together. Worth purchasing to peek into a time when vibrancy, dissonance, anti authoritarianism and violence were all available currencies. Plus for the first time you had women operating on an equal footing as the men in forming bands and playing guitars, the first glimpse of fem power that was neither formulated pap a la Spice Girlzzz.
Along with the other books of the er this is worth a peek within, just to get some ideas for the next modernity.
The author traces some of the subsequent impacts on outsider culture. The clang and screetch of the era has diminished, along with experimentation as the material world of corporate success, its desire for synthesis and harmony has ultimately glazed over the atonal jarring noise. The representation of the sleek machine, does not like dissonance in any shape or form. This avant revolt has therefore been consigned to the backwater.
Does it say anything? The reason why it still carries a messae is it explored an inner state, rather than the external political worlds of Dead Kennedy's, Sex Pistols or the Clash. It also illuminates a particular candle; with enough belief and imagination, anyone can create a scene. The emphasis was on finding a personal voice, that had been stomped on, as opposed to being subsumed within a collective reduction of what happened next; wimp pop, nouveau pop or gluebag Oi.
The book is a large one, and filled with black and white pictures of the participants, looking young and angry, snapped in an era. The writing puts into context the various bands who appeared in the famous comp "No New York". Bowie and Eno looked into the scene and pulled some of the particiants into a structure. The author does a descent job at looking into the social context. This is extremely welcome because most muso journalists operated in a cultural vacuum, a little Prisoner bubble where nothing seemingly impacted from the outside world on their sacred sound.
It is written from a fans view, a labour composed of love, rather than the usual soundbites some Oxbridge journo throws together. Worth purchasing to peek into a time when vibrancy, dissonance, anti authoritarianism and violence were all available currencies. Plus for the first time you had women operating on an equal footing as the men in forming bands and playing guitars, the first glimpse of fem power that was neither formulated pap a la Spice Girlzzz.
Along with the other books of the er this is worth a peek within, just to get some ideas for the next modernity.
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20 Jun 2008
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The Best & most Vivid book about the Fabled No Wave scene of NYC in the Late seventies so far.
There are a Few other decent books, but this one is the Best.
Great Stories, Pictures, Opinions & Of Course Music!
Another "mystery" scene in the Varied history of Punk rock. Along with the Hollywood scene, NYC's No Wave scene was an insular one. With it's own bands, stars, films TV, & Press. It rose from the Burned out streets of Downtown Manhattan. Original musical Ideas Thrust upon a world, not even asking for it!
From the Pre-Punk rumblings of Suicide, throughout the ZE & Lust/Unlust record labels No Magazine years. James Chance, Anya Phillips, Lydia Lunch, Amos Poe, Beth B, Glenn Branca, Pat Place & More all survived & Maybe even Thrived! They did it their way!
This Book captures the scene in Great Photos, info, & graphics. You may have Missed out on it in it's original time, but you could still be Inspired by this book, to do your Own thing. And Of course, not just aping those Great sights & sounds. Lydia Lunch will come After ya!
There are a Few other decent books, but this one is the Best.
Great Stories, Pictures, Opinions & Of Course Music!
Another "mystery" scene in the Varied history of Punk rock. Along with the Hollywood scene, NYC's No Wave scene was an insular one. With it's own bands, stars, films TV, & Press. It rose from the Burned out streets of Downtown Manhattan. Original musical Ideas Thrust upon a world, not even asking for it!
From the Pre-Punk rumblings of Suicide, throughout the ZE & Lust/Unlust record labels No Magazine years. James Chance, Anya Phillips, Lydia Lunch, Amos Poe, Beth B, Glenn Branca, Pat Place & More all survived & Maybe even Thrived! They did it their way!
This Book captures the scene in Great Photos, info, & graphics. You may have Missed out on it in it's original time, but you could still be Inspired by this book, to do your Own thing. And Of course, not just aping those Great sights & sounds. Lydia Lunch will come After ya!
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