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Another branch in the Gong family tree, Gongzilla was a reassembly of many of the members of early Pierre Moerlin’s Gong and played an identical design jazz-rock fusion. Created in 1994 by guitarist Ben Lozaga and bassist Hansford Rowe, the group was curved out by guitarist Allan Holdsworth, percussionist Bobby …

New York-based composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, singer, article writer, and self-described “texturalist/guitarist” David Torn lent his distinct style to varied movies and documentaries and collaborations. He caused composers Howard Shore, Carter Burwell, and Ryuichi Sakamoto, in addition to made an appearance on recordings from k.d. lang, David Bowie, Jim Carroll, Laurie …

Being a drummer, Vic Stevens has produced a profession of playing organic music. Starting that vein with Bon Lozaga (Gong), Stevens done two of his albums. He also performed on Gonzilla’s Suffer record. Stevens provides released two single albums of his very own, the latest getting No Curb Forward. That …

Jazz drummer Ben Perowsky was created and raised in NEW YORK; as a teenager he performed behind his dad, bop saxophonist Frank Perowsky, before shifting to back again everyone from Roy Ayers to Wayne Moody to Rickie Lee Jones. An alumnus from the Lounge Lizards, through the middle-’80s Perowsky also …

Guitarist Allan Holdsworth was widely considered among the finest instrumentalists in every of jazz fusion, yet never really received the reputation that he thus rightfully deserved. Delivered on August 6, 1946, in Bradford, Yorkshire, Holdsworth was originally trained music by his dad, who was simply a pianist. He didn’t grab …