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Belgian avant rock, jazz, and experimental guitarist Pierre Vervloesem (X-Legged Sally, Toned Earth Society) had many albums to his name — including DO-IT-YOURSELF (1994), Fi asc o (1996), and Chef-d’Oeuvre (1999) — when he assembled the exploratory prog music group Grosso Modo to record an eponymous album at Brussels’ Growing …
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An extension or pseudo-continuation of the Warmth, Camberwell Now was a collaboration between previous Gong which Warmth member Charles Hayward (drums, vocals), Stephen Rickard (field recordings, studio room recordings, tape manipulation), and Trefor Goronwy (bass, vocals, ukulele). Collectively, they continuing in the vein of the Heat’s restless experimentation with studio …
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British isles guitarist Fred Frith moved to N.Con.C. in 1979, and within a calendar year had produced the improv rock and roll trio Massacre with bassist Costs Laswell and drummer Fred Maher. The group released Getting rid of Amount of time in 1981 and known as it quits a calendar …
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Calm Sun originally shaped around Dulwich University in 1970 like a four-piece progressive rock-band featuring Phil Manzanera (guitar), Expenses MacCormick (bass), Charles Hayward (drums), and Dave Jarrett (keyboards). The music group name originated from articles on sunspots and solar flares that MacCormick’s sibling Ian have been reading, known as “THE …
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Despite their extremely short-lived tenure, U.K. experimentalist trio This Temperature left out a legacy that could open the doorways for the forming of forward-thinking styles like post-rock, commercial, and post-punk. The group arrived collectively in January of 1976 in Brixton, London, comprised of Charles Bullen, Charles Hayward, and Gareth Williams. …
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The leader from the pioneering experimentalist group This Warmth, Charles Hayward began playing the drums at age 11. He later on started messing around with home-taping, and became a member of Mal Dean’s Amazing Music group in the first ’70s. After conference guitarist Charles Bullen, both performed in Radar Favourites …
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