In a foreword to the book No Wave, writing about the movement's continuing influence Weasel Walter sez:
"I began to express myself musically in a way that felt true to myself, constantly pushing the limits of idiom or genre and always screaming "Fuck You!" loudly in the process. It's how I felt then and I still feel it now. The ideals behind the (anti-) movement known as No Wave were found in many other archetypes before and just as many afterwards, but for a few years around the late 1970s, the concentration of those ideals reached a cohesive, white-hot focus."
From the compilation notes: Madcap selections from WW's solo archives, spanning 1995-2010
"The Best of the Worst contains 1 hour & 36 minutes of abstract mastery, including drum solo pieces, rare compilation tracks, guitar deconstructions, abrasive brutal prog composition, deathly minimalism, machine guns & air raid sirens with Beefheartian skronk in one long, flowing stream of audio terror."
Nobody Watching
Cuntish Beerfarts
Viral Humanity
Shards
Perverted Percussion
Trajectories
Hairmaze
Strictly Improbable
Baldikhu
Antisocial Distance
Ick & Glick
Knife Through the Face of the Bitch I Hate
For Martin Billheimer
All Fast All Loud All the Time
Retrograde Composite
Rattling Down
Enjoy,
NØ
Best of the Worst
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And yet another excellent post. Thanks a lot, Nate!
ReplyDeleteWW is definitely a wild one. Hoped you might enjoy this. Take care, Flac.
DeleteTop work Nate. Thanks very much.
ReplyDeleteYour we;come, my friend. How're the floodingissues unfolding?
DeleteSo far, so slow mate. I've got an industrial dehumidifier & 2 huge fans blowing 24hrs a day, drying the house. It sounds like a very boring Merzbow album. Carpets & rugs ruined, as were 90 albums i had lined up on the floor, which ironically would have been safely up on my shelves had the flood happened a few days later. Because it was a water utility fault, there's some compensation due (i'll get a new carpet for sure) but there's no guarantee they'll pay out for the lost vinyl. What can i say, they're a rapacious capitalist company; natch they'll want to stiff me. I'll know in a few weeks.
DeleteI have that Merbow album...After the Flood. Never lived up to its hype. Take care & best of luck with Rapacaious Power Ltd.
DeleteCheers mate. One step at a time, eh?
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