[hat and beard]

Meh, I like what I like。'Nuff said. Fortunately I don't have an understanding of art and music to get in the way of my enjoyment of it (music that is).

[Glice]

Hmm. So I got Nine for Victor at the weekend... and it's perhaps not the best of theirs. Which is a shame. Of course, personal opinion and all that jazz... but yes. The Kazuo Imai record I got, meanwhile, is awesomeness beyond belief. Still, I might grow to love the new NNCK and it can sit proudly with the other releases I have of theirs. Or something.

[hat and beard]

Oh wow wow wow. NNCK DVD!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=20165 51174
WOW!

Anyone know any more about this?

From Adam Mortimer website: THE NO NECK BLUES BAND: AT 6AM WE BECOME THE POLICE
DVD retrospective of 10 years of performances and videos from the NYC avant guarde band

[fugazifan]

as i already stated in another thread, i bought the NNCK and Embryo album today. fucking great. this band is one of my favorite musical discoveries as of late, so thank you guys...
too bad i probably bought the only official NNCk cd in the country, that means ill have to order from the states...

[Iain]

Originally Posted by hat and beard

Oh wow wow wow. NNCK DVD!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=20165 51174
WOW!

Anyone know any more about this?

From Adam Mortimer website: THE NO NECK BLUES BAND: AT 6AM WE BECOME THE POLICE
DVD retrospective of 10 years of performances and videos from the NYC avant guarde band

Hooray! I think news about this was posted here at the end of last year. Really looknig forward to it.

Also, the music clips on the myspace suggest that there might be new recordings perhaps....maybe...hope so.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by Glice

Hmm. So I got Nine for Victor at the weekend... and it's perhaps not the best of theirs. Which is a shame. Of course, personal opinion and all that jazz... but yes. The Kazuo Imai record I got, meanwhile, is awesomeness beyond belief. Still, I might grow to love the new NNCK and it can sit proudly with the other releases I have of theirs. Or something.

I was being hasty. Well done me for being hasty. And wrong. It's actually very, very good. Again. Bastards.

DVD news has got me hard. Diamond-cutter hard.

[Bunbury]

Originally Posted by hat and beard

Oh wow wow wow. NNCK DVD!
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=20165 51174
WOW!

Anyone know any more about this?

From Adam Mortimer website: THE NO NECK BLUES BAND: AT 6AM WE BECOME THE POLICE
DVD retrospective of 10 years of performances and videos from the NYC avant guarde band

at 6 am we become the police.

awesome news, thanks!

[pokkeherrie]

That DVD does appear to be really neat.

Speaking of DVDs, does anyone know what the relation is between Vizusa and NNCK? Since they're selling a Vizusa DVD-R at the NNCK site at the moment...

edit: oh google, is there anything you don't know? seems that vizusa consists of ex-members of excepter, a band that had ex-members of nnck.

[noumenal]

I downloaded Qvaris a few weeks ago. I've been listening to it and I don't get what the big deal is. Pleasant sounds, but I have a hard time maintaining interest. I've been doing very close passive listening. I don't believe this music can be listened to actively. I have formal problems with it. It's organic, but meanders. I'm sceptical. Also, where's the Grundgestalt in the tunes? Sometimes I think that instead of saying something musical, they're saying something emotive, and that's a degradation in communication. That is, there's no reference, except for some odd, primal, sensationalism.

Convert me.

[!@#$%!]

Originally Posted by noumenal

Convert me.

would you like to sell flowers in airports? how about door too door fundraising as a "missionary"?

[noumenal]

Originally Posted by !@#$%!

would you like to sell flowers in airports? how about door too door fundraising as a "missionary"?

hahaha If you've got the pamphlets, I've got the time. I'm a poor salesman, though.

 

"Have your heard of NNCK, Madame? No? Do you have a stereo and 20 minutes?"

[Iain]

Originally Posted by noumenal

Sometimes I think that instead of saying something musical, they're saying something emotive, and that's a degradation in communication

God, your not one of these people who idolises Frank Zappa and says stuff like "oh he's making all these musical references, he's so witty". I know your sort!

[fugazifan]

whats wrong with frank zappa?

[noumenal]

Originally Posted by Iain

God, your not one of these people who idolises Frank Zappa and says stuff like "oh he's making all these musical references, he's so witty". I know your sort!

No, you've misinterpreted what I was saying. I meant self-referential. Not referencing some outside thing like the Dies Irae or some shit. Zappa is OK - not a huge fan.

[Glice]

Originally Posted by noumenal

I downloaded Qvaris a few weeks ago. I've been listening to it and I don't get what the big deal is. Pleasant sounds, but I have a hard time maintaining interest. I've been doing very close passive listening. I don't believe this music can be listened to actively. I have formal problems with it. It's organic, but meanders. I'm sceptical. Also, where's the Grundgestalt in the tunes? Sometimes I think that instead of saying something musical, they're saying something emotive, and that's a degradation in communication. That is, there's no reference, except for some odd, primal, sensationalism.

Convert me.

Qvaris probably wouldn't flip your switches. It is a bit meandering. I was completely sold by the time that record came out, but I might not have been so convinced if it was the only one I heard. Personally, Letters from the Earth is my favourite - they manage to pull that trick of improvising something that couldn't be composed without being a 'jam band'. I'm not saying it couldn't be composed, more that it wouldn't be composed. There's a lot of playing on the precipice of improvisational collapse... and it's that which interests me most about them, especially on LFTE, that they sound like an improv band sounds like when they're just about to lose grip on whatever 'groove' they had... except they often don't have the groove in the first place. There's also a lot of sounding like sections of the band are fighting against another section... there's a track on Nine for Victor where this Cello meanders forever with some twiddling otherwise... and then it suddenly finds the tonic and the rest of the twiddling falls into place.

I could probably say something a little less wishy-washy, but it's been an epic weekend.

[demonrail666]

NNCK have more in common with the sixties notion of the happening than anything more conventionally known as rock (or even improv). In that sense, the bands I liken them to most are the Velvets (in their live capacity), very early Amon Duul and, to a certain degree, Hawkwind.

NNCK are therefore important not just on a purely musical level but for tapping into an almost entirely lost tradition of more communal creative activity. The fact that they're one of my favourite 'bands' at the moment probably has a lot more to do with that, than anything found directly on the CDs themselves.

[dnorsen]

there is a longer blurb of the dvd here on adam's site: http://www.adammortimer.com/reel09.htm

[hat and beard]

Originally Posted by dnorsen

there is a longer blurb of the dvd here on adam's site: http://www.adammortimer.com/reel09.htm

I'm sold!

[Glice]

Originally Posted by sarramkrop

Epic weekends or not, and I don't think you have that much to say on the matter, NNCk come more from the NYC tradition of playing on rooftops, something that is totally antagonistic to most musicians on here. A bit of a hippy idea, in its collective execution at least, and it still generates acceptably abstract music. I don't really understand why noumenal's ass gets kissed so much, when he severely lacks knowledge in many a strain of making music. Case closed, as far as I'm concerned.

Meh. I sympathise with your way of appreciating music, I sympathise with his. Quelle probleme?

[tesla69]

In case anyone cares I confirmed with Dave Nuss that there will NOT be an Orthodox Easter gig in the park this year 2007 - they're taking a break this year...