[Microsound-announce] einziges brd konzert: NIHILIST SPASM BAND!!!

[Till Kniola]

please come out and hear the amazing NIHILIST SPASM BAND

jubel! kreisch! vorfreude!

sie haben bereits auf dem nurse with wound label veröffentlicht und machen
seit 1965 vitalen, abwechslungsreichen und selbstgezimerten
noise/jazz/freak/core sound.


NIHILIST SPASM BAND (Can) & M.I.G. (Koeln)

Fr. 03.11.2006, 20.00h

Kulturbunker Mülheim
Berliner Str. 20
51063 Köln
http://www.kulturbunker-muelheim.de


NIHILIST SPASM BAND (Canada)
&
M.I.G. (Köln)

Die Urväter des Noise zum ersten Mal seit Gründung 1965 live in Deutschland
überhaupt. Exklusives BRD-Konzert!

--- Reihe bunkerfrequenzen ---

Was sollen wir sagen?! Freudentränen sprudeln, die Hände sind jetzt bereits
schweißnass vor Erwartung. Die wirklich legendäre NIHILIST SPASM BAND aus
Kanada beehrt den Kulturbunker Mülheim. NSB gelten zurecht als die Erfinder
der freien Noisemusik. Seit den Anfängen schuf das Kollektiv Geräusche und
Musik mit allen erdenklichen Mitteln: Schlagzeug, Haushaltsgeräte,
Betonmischer, Bohrmaschinen, Saxophone, Gitarren und vieles mehr. Aus Jazz
wurde Noise aus Noise die Befreiung von allen Konventionen und kommerziellen
Zwängen. Der totale Freakout ist garantiert!

"the world's first noise band"

THE NIHILIST SPASM BAND ******** FATHERS OF NOISE

The Nihilist Spasm Band was formed in July., 1965, and comprised members:
John B. Boyle (electric kazoo, thumb piano,drums), John Clement (guitar,
drums), Greg Curnoe (electric kazoo,drums, found instruments), William A.
Exley (vocals, theremin, found instruments), Murray Favro (guitar, drums),
Archie Leitch (slide bass clarinet, harmonica), Hugh McIntyre (3 1/2 string
bass), Art Pratten (Pratt-a-various). Archie Leitch left the band in the
early 1970's, Greg Curnoe passed away in November, 1992, and Hugh McIntyre
died in December, 2004.

RECORDING HISTORY

Soundtrack for "No Movie" by Greg Curnoe, August, 1965, recorded in Greg
Curnoe's King Street Studio, London, Ont.
"The Sweetest Country this Side of Heaven", 33 1/3 rpm flexidisc for
Artscanada Magazine of Toronto, Jan., 1967, recorded CHLO Radio studios, St.
Thomas, Ont., Oct., 1966.
No Record, Allied Recording Corporation, Toronto, April, 1968, recorded in
Bill Bessey Studio.
The Nihilist Spasm Band, Vol. 2, Music Gallery Editions, Toronto, 1978,
recorded Music Gallery Studios.
The Nihilist Spasm Band 1984, 90 minute cassette tape, Chimik
Communications, Montreal, 1984, recorded various concerts, Forest City
Gallery, London, 1983-84.
The Nihilist Spasm Band 7X ~X = X, A United Dairies Record, London, England,
1985, recorded Forest City Gallery, 1984 - 1985.
Good Alchemy Presents WORLD RECORD, Alchemy Records, Osaka, Japan, 1992,
recorded, Sept., 1991, a compilation compact disc comprising: Controlled
Bleeding, Solmania, Hijokaidan, Freudwerk, Merzbow, Borbetomagus, and the
NSB.
What About Me, The Nihilist Spasm Band (compact disc), Alchemy Records,
Osaka, Japan, July, 1993, recorded at Charter House Studios, London, summer,
1992.
Artscanada, Allied, Music Gallery, and United Dairies lp's re-released on
cd, Alchemy Records, Japan, 1995-1996.
Nihilist Spasm Band - Live In Japan, released in May, 1997, sessions
recorded in March, 1996 at Club Lamama, Tokyo, Club Myuse, Osaka, Club
Takutaku, Kyoto, and at Middle Ground Studio, Osaka.
Bananafish, 4 minute piece recorded at Forest City Gallery, May 24, 1997,
for inclusion on Bananafish Magazine (San Francisco) compilation cd.
Muckraker, 6 minute piece recorded at Forest City Gallery, May 24, 1997, for
inclusioin on Muckraker Magazine (Minneapolis) compilation cd.
Bellchamber, 6 minute piece recorded at Forest City Gallery, May 24, 1997,
for Entartete Kunst Records compilation cd, 1998 release.
However But, 1998 release on HMM, Calgary, compilation cassette tape,
recorded live at Mohawk Place, Buffalo, N.Y. for Hallwalls, May 15, 1998.
1984, re-release on cd of The Nihilist Spasm Band 1984 Chimik cassette,
Alchemy Records, Osaka, Japan, 1999.
Every Monday Night, The Nihilist Spasm Band, Alchemy Records, Japan,
recorded DB Recording Studios, London, Ontario, Oct. 4, 1998, released 1999.
No Music Festival, 6 cd Box Set, Live From 03, 27 & 28, '98 on Entartete
Kunst Records, London, Ontario, Canada, The NSB with Thurston Moore, Van's
Peppy Syncopators, Knurl, Alan Licht, Jojo Hiroshige and Junko, 1999
No Music Festival, '99, 5 cd box set, Entartete Kunst, 2000
No Nothing - No Music Festival 2000, 6 cd box set, Non Musica Rex, 2001
No Borders, The Nihilist Spasm Band with Joe McPhee, 2 cd's, Non Musica Rex,
2001
No Tribute: The Music of the Nihilist Spasm Band, Sunship, Little Mafia,
Carbon, Breathmint Records, U.S.A., 2001


PERFORMANCE HISTORY


International performances include the Galerie de France, the Musee d'Art
Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Radio France, Institute of Contemporary Art,
London, U.K., The Knitting Factory, New York, U.S.A., The Empty Bottle,
Chicago, U.S.A., and various venues in Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Tokyo, and
Morioka, Japan, including an appearance on the television show Tamori's
World Music, viewership 5 - 6,000,000, Festival Musique Action,
Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, Musique No Musique, Kunstencentrum, Hasselt, Instants
Chavires, Montreuil/Paris, Non Mi Place, Mulhouse, Fr..
Canadian concerts include campuses of Guelph University, Western University,
University of Windsor, McMaster University, and the fabled Rochdale College.
Gallery concerts include the London Regional Art and Historical Museum, the
Art Gallery of Ontario, the National Gallery of Canada, the Montreal Museum
of Fine Arts, Rodman Hall National Eshibition Centre, Galerie Obscure,
Quebec, the Isaac's Gallery, Toronto, the Music Gallery, Toronto, The Art
Gallery of Windsor, the St. Thomas Art Gallery, Hallwalls, Buffalo, and
numerous artist-run-centres.
"THE WORLD'S FIRST NOISE BAND" (P. Margasak, Chicago Reader)
The Nihilist Spasm Band has had considerable press coverage over the years
with feature articles appearing in The Toronto Star Magazine, The Globe and
Mail, Time Magazine, Artscanada, 20 Cents Magazine, Bananafish Magazine,
Muckraker Magazine, The Chicago Reader, The Chicago Tribune, The New York
Times, Time Out New York, The Village Voice,The Wire, Mojo, and numerous
American, British, European, and Japanese publications. They have been
featured on programmes on CBC Television, CBC Radio AM & FM, Radio Canada,
Radio France, on Japanese television, on local stations in London, Toronto,
Montreal, and Quebec City, and on university stations across Canada and the
United States and around the world. They have been influential in
experimental and improvised music in Canada and abroad. Jojo Hiroshige of
the group Hijokaidan has said one of his goals is "to become the Nihilist
Spasm Band of Japan" (jewel case notes, Good Alchemy Presents WORLD
RECORDS).


THE NIHILIST SPASM BAND, CURRENT PERSONNEL


John B. Boyle was born in London, Ontario and currently lives in
Peterborough. Boyle taught elementary school in St. Catharines, Ontario from
1962 til 1968, and has been a full time professional artist ever since. His
paintings and painted constructions have been exhibited in major galleries
across Canada and around the world, and they can be seen in most large
collections across the country, including the National Gallery of Canada,
the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the
Confederation Arts Centre. In 1995 his first novel, No Angel Came, was
published by Tellem Press. In the NSB he plays electric kazoo with digital
delay and ring modulator, thumb piano and percussion. Peter Margasak of the
Chicago Reader has called him "something of an Ayleresque virtuoso" of the
kazoo. In 2001 and 2004 he had solo exhibitions at Fukugan Gallery, Osaka
and performed with Jojo Hiroshige, Masahiko Ohno, Aya Ohnishi, and other
leading Japanese noise and electronic musicians. He and Art Pratten
performed with various artists in Tokyo at Uplink Factory in 2003 in
conjunction with the Japanese premierre of the film "What About Me: The Rise
of the Nihilist Spasm Band".
John Clement was born in Toronto and currently lives in London, Ontario,
where he works as a family physician. For many years he has had a passion
for fast and powerful motorcycles and from time to time has been a serious
motorcycle racer. In the NSB he plays electric guitars he has built or
modified, and percussion.
William A. Exley was born in London, Ontario and lived for many years in
Elmira, Ontario, where he was a much loved secondary school English teacher
and department head. He has recently retired and moved back to London. Exley
is an orator and performer of note in the London area where he is famous for
his speeches at the annual picnic of the Nihilist Party of Canada. In the
NSB he is the vocalist and also plays theremin and various found
instruments, including his wife Norma's cooking pot with marbles, pop cans
and tricycle parts. "His voice," says Robin Edgerton in Time Out New York,
"has one of the richest timbres ever given to a human being".
Murray Favro was born in Huntsville, Ontario, and now lives in London,
Ontario, where he works as one of Canada's leading sculptors. His works have
been shown in major galleries across Canada, in the United States, Cuba, and
in several countries in Europe, and he was the 1996 winner of the
prestigious Gershon Iskowitz prize for outstanding achievement as a visual
artist. Exhibitions are in preparation in both France and Spain. Favro has
designed and built many guitars which are prized by collectors as both art
objects and outstanding musical instruments. In the NSB he concentrates on
playing guitar with occasional forrays into percussion. In 1997 he
contributed solo guitar material to an Alchemy guitar compilation disc.
Art Pratten was born and continues to reside in London, Ontario. For many
years he worked as an artist/designer and in numerous related capacities at
the London Free Press. He is now retired. In the NSB he originally played
kazoos of his own design and construction, but within a short time began to
invent, build and play a succession of beautifully crafted and much prized
violin-like instruments played with the bow under the name Pratt-a-various.
He has also built and played guitars, a "water pipe" electronic wind
instrument of his own invention, and at least one dulcimer-like instrument
that is played with mallets.
."the world's first noise band"
THE NIHILIST SPASM BAND ******** FATHER

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