| The live recording, in its entirety, of
the 1998 No Music Festival, NO MUSIC FESTIVAL, consists
of six CDs, an oversize 16-page booklet with photos of the performers,
notes by festival director Ben Portis and by several of the
participants, and a pair of earplugs, highly recommended for prolonged
exposure to the LOUD music contained herein, all packaged in a sturdy,
attractively-designed box.
The festival was structured in two parts
over two days and evenings: the concert performances by each of the
groups and "interplay"—what might be called jam
sessions—consisting of improvisations by members of the various
groups, many of whom had never met one another before the festival, in a
variety of permutations and combinations. Additional
"Inter-players" included guitarist Tim Glasgow (who also made the digital recordings of the festival), Galen Curnoe and
Owen Curnoe (sons of the late artist Greg Curnoe, a founding member
of the Nihilist Spasm Band), Jason Bellchamber, Mark Favro (son of
NSB co-founder Murray Favro), and Aya Onishi.
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Thurston Moore |
The Performers:
- Hal Rammel, John Corbett, and Terri
Kapsalis (aka Van's Peppy Syncopators)
- Knurl (aka Alan Bloor)
- Thurston Moore
- Jojo Hiroshige and Junko
- Alan Licht
- The Nihilist Spasm Band
Personnel of The Nihilist Spasm
Band:
- John Boyle - kazoo, drums, thumb piano
- John Clement - guitar, drums
- Bill Exley - vocals, kazoo, cooking
pot
- Murray Favro - guitar, drums
- Hugh McIntyre - bass
- Art Pratten - Pratt-A-Various
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| Back row, left to right: Bill
Exley, constant guest performer Aya Onishi, Murray Favro, Art
Pratten, John Clement. Seated, lower left: John Boyle. Centre:
Tim Glasgow, occasional guest performer and recording engineer
for some of the NSB's recordings including the No Music Festival
box sets. |
Track Listing:
Disc 1
Van's Peppy Syncopators
1. Introductions
2. Handless
3. Pills
4. Ken po
5. Away Off Somewhere
6. Kung-Fu
7. Jungle Tip: Killer Bee
8. The Gathering Doubt
9. Whale Badge
10. Tyrant Heads
11. For Arthur Cravan
Friday Night Jams
12. Jojo, Junko, Aya, Pratten
13. Corbett, Moore, Rammel
14. Clement, Kapsalis, McIntyre, Moore
15. Favro, Glasgow, Jojo, Licht, Moore
16. Aya, Boyle, Exley, Moore
Disc 2
Knurl
1. Spring
2. Toaster
Friday Night Jams
3. Clement, Junko, Rammel
4. Licht, Pratten
5. Bellchamber, Boyle, Licht, Pratten
6. Aya, Kapsalis, McIntyre, Moore
7. Favro, Licht
8. Boyle, Rammel
9. Knurl, Moore
Disc 3
Thurston Moore
1. Improv
2. Continuation of Improv with Jojo
Saturday Night Jams
3. Galen Curnoe, Licht, Warren Pratten
4. Aya, Clement, Moore
5. Junko, Kapsalis
6. Corbett, Licht
7. Aya, Corbett, McIntyre, Rammel
Disc 4
Jojo Hiroshige
1. Introduction
2. Jojo solo Improv
3. Jojo + Junko
4. Jojo + Junko
Saturday Night Jams
5. Boyle, Jojo, Knurl
6. Junko, Moore, Pratten
7. Favro, Licht
8. Clement, Corbett
9. Kapsalis, Moore, Rammel
10. Bellchamber, Jojo
11. Aya, Jojo, McIntyre
Disc 5
Alan Licht
1. Betty Ford
Saturday Night Jam
2. Boyle, Clement, Owen Curnoe, Exley, Mark Favro, Glasgow, Licht,
Knurl, Moore
Disc 6
Nihilist Spasm Band
1. Rammel/Exley Introduction
2. I'm a Real Nice Fellow
3. Heritage
4. Forget
5. Improv (with Moore)
6. I Have Nothing to Say (with Rammel)
7. Improv (with Jojo)
8. No Canada
9. Exley Closing Main Stage
This is an original, new,
sealed 6-CD box set issued in 1998 and now out of print and
extremely rare.
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