nihilist spasm band
Nihilist Spasm Band - Meateater
@ Wikipedia:
The Nihilist Spasm Band (NSB) is a London, Ontario-based noise band. The band was formed in 1965 by Hugh McIntyre, John Clement, John Boyle, Bill Exley, Murray Favro, Archie Leitch, Art Pratten, and Greg Curnoe. Leitch has since retired, Curnoe was killed in a bicycle accident in 1992, and McIntyre died of heart failure in 2004. The band members are mostly local artists, none is a trained musician.
The term spasm band refers to a band that uses homemade instruments. Indeed, most of the NSB’s instruments are modifications of other instruments, or wholly invented by the members. In addition to the homemade instruments, members are encouraged to improvise. The range of the improvisation is such that instruments are not tuned to each other, tempi and time signatures are lacking, and the members push the ranges of their already homemade instruments by engaging in constant innovation.
@ allmusic:
The Nihilist Spasm Band is a unique experimental collective generally known as “the first noise band”. Formed in 1965 in London, Ontario, the Canadian group has since improvised on a number of instruments, including homemade creations such as the violin created by bandmember Art Pratten, the “Pratt-a-various”. Bandmembers include Pratten (who also plays “water-pipe”), Bill Exley (spoken word), Murray Favro (guitar), John Clement (guitar and drums), John Boyle (drums and kazoo), and Hugh McIntyre (bass). Their first concert took place in early 1966 and their debut recording, No Record, followed two years later. Another decade passed before their next album, Vol. 2, was released, but despite their sporadic recording, the band remained busy with live performances. For over 30 years, NSB has performed every Monday night at a gallery in their hometown. They have also performed at N.Y.C.’s Knitting Factory, the FIMAV music festival in Quebec and other creative music festivals, and toured Japan in 1997. Many of the Nihilist Spasm Band albums have been reissued on the Japanese label Alchemy Records by fan and noise artist Jojo Hiroshige (of Hijokaidan). Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore is also counted among NSB’s big fans. In March 1998, the band threw the first No Music Festival, featuring improvisers from Japan, Toronto, N.Y.C., Chicago, and more. Box sets of each No Music Festival have been issued on Canada’s independent label Entartete Kunst.
nihilist spasm band - no record (1968)
01. destroy the nations
02. when in london sleep at the york hotel
03. the byron bog
04. dog face man
05. oh brian dibb
06. destroy the nations again
nihilist spasm band - vol. 2 (1979)
01. no canada
02. stupidity
03. dum-de-dum
04. elsinore
nihilist spasm band - 1984 (1984)
01. march 20 1984
02. are you ok bill? july 30 1984
03. june 5 1984
04. sept 10 1984
05. oct 16 1984
nihilist spasm band - 7x~x=x (1985)
01. this is a test
02. an appeal to reason
03. enough is enough
04. fretful
05. stop and think shit heads
06. sinister
07. no canada
nihilist spasm band - what about me (1992)
01. hesitation
02. what about me
03. indecision of the night
04. function
05. wish
06. grumbling
07. hijokaidan warp
08. breathing
09. i have nothing to say
10. dance/slow
nihilist spasm band - live in japan (1997)
01. introduction/no canada
02. indecision of the night
03. stupidity
04. shinkansen
05. murray
06. la mama lament
07. better than nothing
08. here not here
09. hesitation
nihilist spasm band - every monday night (1999)
01. mother canada
02. i dreamt i was living in paradise
03. forget
04. it’s not my fault
05. i’m a real nice fellow
06. the filter song
07. gazetteer of newfoundland
08. however but
09. slow dance
nihilist spasm band & cock. e.s.p. - split (2000)
01. what about me (live u.s. debut) [nihilist spasm band]
02. canada doesn’t like us [cock e.s.p.]
nihilist spasm band feat. joe mcphee - no borders [stage] (2001)
![Nihilist Spasm Band feat. Joe McPhee - No borders [stage] (2001)](http://blog.fernandocamargo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/nihilist-spasm-band-feat-joe-mcphee-no-borders-stage-2001.jpg)
01. nihilist party lights
02. duet
03. united nations
04. going too far
05. poughkeepsie
06. why try
07. acrostics
08. trio
09. victor
nihilist spasm band feat. joe mcphee - no borders [studio] (2001)
![Nihilist Spasm Band feat. Joe McPhee - No borders [studio] (2001)](http://blog.fernandocamargo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/nihilist-spasm-band-feat-joe-mcphee-no-borders-studio-2001.jpg)
01. do it my way
02. boing
03. meateater
04. unlikely
05. mature consideration
06. stridor
07. helpless
08. road kill
09. duet again
storm & stress
@ Wikipedia:
Storm & Stress is an American indie rock trio. This noise/experimental rock band that takes its name from the German literary movement Sturm und Drang.
Members are:
- Ian Williams - electric guitar and vocals (also member of Battles and ex-member of Don Caballero)
- Kevin Shea - drums (also member of People (Band), Talibam!, Sexy Thoughts, Puttin’ On The Ritz, Coptic Light, Moppa Elliott’s Mostly Other People Do The Killing and about 15 other bands)
- Erich Emm - bass (also member of Don Caballero and Good Morning)
@ Touch and Go / Quarterstick Records:
Storm & Stress is of course an historical reference to the German literary movement, Sturm and Drang. Ours is more of a modern day version, where the characters still yearn for revolt, but unfortunately cannot. We would like to feel, but have no feelings left. It’s about an impossible situation: the ridiculousness of another era in our new skin (the wigs hurt), the improperness of pop artifice mixed with legitimate attempts at being serious, and then all of the attendant problems, i.e. teenage aspirations tripped up by music that teenagers probably don’t want to listen to, rock without a beat, etc.
storm & stress - self titled (1997)
01. we write threnodies, we write with explosions
02. today is totally crashing and stunned in bright lights
03. dance ’til record skips like passengers shift on take off
04. micah gaugh sings all is all
05. guitar cabinet stack way high is freedom or gravity gives us rhythm
06. piles of blinkers slip for new years
07. orange cone made no noise
storm & stress - under thunder and fluorescent lights (2000)
01. the sky’s the ground, the bombs are plants, and we’re the sun, love
02. an address that was to skip ahead of the gallop of its own sperm and eggs and wait for itself in the future
03. meet me in the space they stare at leaving their seat during a show
04. it takes a million years to become diamonds so let’s just burn like coal until the sky’s black
05. the 1st, our lady of burning thorns
06. o, when my lady comes
07. the 2nd, perpetuate the beautiful
08. and third and youngest, unnamed
09. forever, like anti-oxidants (listen to the sound our cells make)
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