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No Neck Blues Band

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The No Neck Blues Band, or NNCK, are, according to me, the most representative band of what Wire Magazine has dubbed "New Weird America" (I really hate that term, it's become so all-encompassing that almost anything with a weird vibe has been engulfed in this "category"). This "new weird" sound has it's roots in free jazz and experimental music, nothing was impossible and all was permitted. From one album to the other, you could never be quite sure what you would get except you know it's going to sound quite primitive/tribal; with or without electronics.

The group started out in the mid-nineties and was a part of the whole loft scene, performing often on city rooftops or in lofts or their own "Hint House" These shows were apparently quite wild (even if the members would just stand, unmoving on stage, the music in itself would be sufficient to make for a crazy show) and little by little, cryptic releases made their way on the market, all of them often in very limited quantities. The earlier releases were quite loud group improvisations bordering on noise (no "blues band" were they!), the sound slowly matured into out-there territory, opting for primitive psychedelic soundscapes and/or drone music including often unidentifiable sounds; some of these releases sound a lot like the more fucked up albums by Sun Ra.

Their creative output tends to shift between their noisier side and their more psychedelic side from release to release with fluctuating quality and availability. They often disappear off the face of the Earth only to reappear a few months later with a slew of new albums and singles. Although there are a few identified members of the group (and their side-projects), the group has, since their conception, tried to keep themselves as anonymous as possible (to this day, no one has been able to confirm if The No Neck Blues Explosion 7" is actually NNCK or just some hoax). Very few images of the group are out there, it took me forever to identify David Nuss (also of Angelblood) for example.

I'll always remember the first time I heard NNCK, they were in the "out-there" section of my favorite store in Montreal and I just picked up the Letters From The Earth double CD on Captain Trip after being tipped by one of the staff. The first song came on (Montana Morning) and straight away I was trying to identify what these sounds I was hearing were. It was raw and I had no idea what was going on, but at that point I was already hooked, this was just too obscure and mysterious to let it pass by. Ever since then I've been an avid collector of NNCK, trying to get absolutely everything the band releases. I'm definitely one of those fanatics when it comes to this band!

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Album Cover The No Neck Blues Explosion
Label: Self-Released
Release: Unknown
Format: 7"
Cat. no: NNCKBX#1

Song list:

  1. I Am Victor Hugo (4:31)
  2. The Crack-Up (6:07)


Album Cover Cum/Thinner
Label: Sound@One
Release: 1994
Format: 8" Lathe Cut
Cat. no: S@1#7

Song list:

  1. Cum (10:11)
  2. Thinner (11:01)


Album Cover Ink/Sweat
Label: Sound@One
Release: 1994
Format: 8" Lathe Cut
Cat. no: S@1#8

Song list:

  1. Ink (10:30)
  2. Sweat (10:43)


Album Cover Piss/Oil
Label: Sound@One
Release: 1995
Format: 8" Lathe Cut
Cat. no: S@1#9

Song list:

  1. Piss (9:43)
  2. Oil (10:49)


Album Cover The Math Of Crack
Label: New World Of Sound Records/Sound@One
Release: 1995
Format: 7"
Cat. no: S@1#2/NWOS-11

Song list:

  1. The Math Of Crack (6:40)
  2. The Mouth Of Gack (8:33)


Album Cover Live 7" (No NNCK Death EP)
Label: Ecstatic Peace/Sound@One
Release: 1995
Format: 7"
Cat. no: S@1#3/E#56

Song list:

  1. Death (4:32)
  2. Death (Fight Club) (5:16)


Album Cover Recorded In Public & Private (Ass Run Volume 1)
Label: Ecstatic Yod/Ecstatic Peace/Sound@One
Release: 1995
Format: LP
Cat. no: S@1#4/Actuel-1/E#57/FYPL16

Song list:

  1. The Ghost Of Magnetism (19:29)
  2. History Of Electricity (Version) (7:26)
  3. A Gull-Scene Depth (11:58)
  4. Not The Sky (10:08)


Album Cover The Clearing
Label: Dry Leaf Discs/Sound@One
Release: 1995
Format: 7"
Cat. no: S@1#5/DF005

Song list:

  1. The Clearing (6:32)
  2. Shaitan's Fingering (6:12)
  3. Everything I Earned And Learned Has Gone With A Tap Of A Spoon Against The Teeth (2:08)


Album Cover Hoichi
Label: Sound@One
Release: 1996
Format: LP
Cat. no: S@1#1

Song list:

  1. Untitled (10:13)
  2. Or Neptune (12:30)
  3. The Law Of The Sea (22:03)


Album Cover Letters From The Earth
Label: Captain Trip/Seres/Sound@One
Release: 1996
Format: 2CD
Cat. no: S@1#26,27/SER-2/CTCD-422/423

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Montana Morning (9:45)
  2. Isopropyl Ocean (38:18)
  3. Untitled (5:58)
CD 2:
  1. Cosmos (11:39)
  2. John The Baptist (37:06)
  3. Seven Spaces Of Empty Place (Shattering Verdure) (8:12)


Album Cover The Circle Broken
Label: Sound@One
Release: 1997
Format: CS
Cat. no: S@1#32

Song list:

  1. Side 1 (30:34)
  2. Side 2 (24:46)


Album Cover A Tabu Two Volume 1
Label: New World Of Sound/Sound@One
Release: 1998
Format: LP
Cat. no: NWOS-21/S@1#34

Song list:

  1. Untitled (13:18)
  2. Untitled (12:35)
  3. Untitled (27:08)


Album Cover A Tabu Two Volume 2
Label: New World Of Sound/Sound@One
Release: 1998
Format: LP
Cat. no: NWOS-22/S@1#35

Song list:

  1. Untitled (16:42)
  2. Untitled (23:36)


Album Cover Letters From The Serth
Label: Seres/Sound@One
Release: 1998
Format: CD
Cat. no: S@1#42/SER-1

Song list:

  1. Joanthebaptist (10:52)
  2. Dept. Of Energy (13:46)
  3. Lettersfromtheserth (15:07)
  4. Slitheringberdure Eightspacesofemptyplace (25:02)


Album Cover The Birth Of Both Worlds
Label: Seres/Sound@One
Release: 1998
Format: 2CD
Cat. no: S@1#46,47/SER-3

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Ye Boned Ragas A Garden Obey (15:51)
  2. We Are All Going Down (18:43)
  3. To You Too (6:51)
CD 2:
  1. The Emblematic Cut (11:11)
  2. Why Is Love Wrong? (17:39)
  3. The New Quarter (16:04)
  4. Sif Was His Mistress (20:56)


Album Cover Meets The Clear People With Mystery Gypped Live At Ken's Electric Lake
Label: Locust Music
Release: 1998
Format: 2CD
Cat. no: L98

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Untitled (3:36)
  2. Untitled (12:33)
  3. Untitled (5:15)
  4. Untitled (19:28)
CD 2:
  1. Untitled (6:38)
  2. Untitled (17:16)
  3. Untitled (8:10)
  4. Untitled (10:38)


Album Cover Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me
Label: Sound@One
Release: 2001
Format: CD
Cat. no: S@1#50

Song list:

  1. Untitled (1:15)
  2. The Natural Bridge (5:47)
  3. Assignment Subud (18:28)
  4. Back To The O-Mind (I'd Rather Not Go) (10:10)
  5. Untitled (7:05)
  6. Untitled (18:54)
  7. Untitled (13:01)


Album Cover Ever Borneo!
Label: Seres/Sound@One
Release: 2002
Format: LP + 7"
Cat. no: S@1#60,62/SER 201,202

Song list:

LP:
  1. Twinkle (5:39)
  2. Second Columbus Pt.1 (1:33)
  3. Blue Craft (2:14)
  4. Ever Borneo! (8:08)
  5. Accepting The Gift & Gently Sating Goodbye (2:01)
  6. And Here Is Your Key (2:23)
  7. Futuremaster (4:43)
  8. Second Columbus Pt.2 (4:59)
  9. Tacomind (6:22)
7" (Mount Analog):
  1. Side A (3:54)
  2. Side B (3:18)


Album Cover Re: Mr. A Fan
Label: Trademark Of Quality
Release: 2002
Format: LP
Cat. no: TMQ 638

Song list:

  1. A Little Piece Of The Sky (14:41)
  2. It's The Fourth Of July (5:10)
  3. The Sound Of Violins (15:49)
  4. Unafarmer (2:16)


Album Cover Intonomancy
Label: Sound@One
Release: 2003
Format: CD
Cat. no: S@1#64

Song list:

  1. Flor Yet Slolemn (3:04)
  2. Witch (5:48)
  3. Play Your Play (11:23)
  4. Open That Grass Can (4:11)
  5. Intonomancy (8:19)
  6. This Absent-Minded Crisis? (1:57)
  7. Fuck No. (15:48)
  8. Floater (5:25)
  9. The Shepherd Takes A Shine To The Abyss (11:48)


Album Cover Blood/Vapor
Label: Sound@One
Release: 2003
Format: 8" Lathe Cut
Cat. no: S@1#10

Song list:

  1. Blood (10:10)
  2. Vapor (10:52)


Album Cover Dutch Money
Label: Seres/Sound@One
Release: 2004
Format: LP
Cat. no: S@1#68/SER 206

Song list:

  1. Maid Of Many Sands (8:44)
  2. Raising The Low Road (6:47)
  3. I See Popping Slaughter (3:18)
  4. The Festoon Bid (13:06)
  5. Sharing Charlestown With The World (4:55)


Album Cover First Kingdom Of The Ghost
Label: Seres/Sound@One
Release: 2004
Format: LP
Cat. no: S@1#69/SER 207

Song list:

  1. Goodbye Our Lady, Secret Of The Corn (10:38)
  2. The Kali-Yuga (5:39)
  3. Move And Stand In Phase (4:26)
  4. Trojanova And Nova (9:51)
  5. Trojanever And Ever (12:01)


Album Cover Parallel Easters
Label: Sound@One
Release: 2004
Format: 2CD
Cat. no: S@1#70,71

Song list:

CD 1:
  1. Rasing The Low Road (4:27)
  2. Weaving & The Waving Straps (6:48)
  3. The Bruce Effect (6:36)
  4. Beyond The Edge The Carpet Cannot End At (43:01)
CD 2:
  1. An Exercise In Perception (3:43)
  2. The Sun Is That (5:00)
  3. Ygg (10:44)
  4. Llemlis (4:48)
  5. Lllirikum (11:12)
  6. Amortortak (29:31)
  7. Mechel (4:57)


Album Cover Wolfen Nickel
Label: Sound@One
Release: 2004
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: S@1#76

Song list:

  1. Untitled (5:26)
  2. Untitled (3:18)
  3. Untitled (11:25)
  4. Untitled (11:47)
  5. Untitled (6:18)


Album Cover Rye Antenna
Label: Sound@One
Release: 2005
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: S@1#87

Song list:

  1. Untitled (9:29)
  2. Untitled (1:39)
  3. Untitled (8:33)
  4. Untitled (12:46)
  5. Untitled (16:12)


Album Cover The Collective Imaginings Of Quantarenius, Cook, & Co.
Label: Greene Naftali/Sound@One
Release: 2005
Format: CD
Cat. no: S@1#80

Song list:

  1. On The Planet Mars (2:56)
  2. A Spiritual Knifewound (2:43)
  3. Howd'ya Do That? (1:56)
  4. The Hungrier I Get (9:14)
  5. Love For Sale (9:25)
  6. The Quicker The Police Show Up (21:21)
  7. It Went Back (2:53)
  8. Jail For Sale (13:36)


Album Cover Qvaris
Label: Sound@One
Release: 2005
Format: CD
Cat. no: S@1#81

Song list:

  1. The Doon (5:14)
  2. Live Your Myth In Grease (8:07)
  3. The Black Pope (5:34)
  4. Qvaris Theme (2:27)
  5. The Caterpillar Heart (11:36)
  6. Qvaris Theme (Loplop Hearing Qvaris) (1:48)
  7. Boreal Gluts (8:14)
  8. Dark Equus (5:02)
  9. Qvaris Theme (Wohihb) (2:42)
  10. Lugnagall (11:34)
  11. Vaticon Blue (Theme End) (6:33)


Album Cover Embryonnck
Label: Staubgold
Release: 2006
Format: CD
Cat. no: STAUBGOLD 67

Song list:

  1. Wieder Das Erste Mal (9:28)
  2. Five Grams Of The Widow (2:39)
  3. After Marja's Cats (5:03)
  4. Frank Cologne (1:42)
  5. Die Farbe Aus Dem All (5:32)
  6. Zweiter Sommer (6:54)
  7. Das Erste Mal (13:20)


Album Cover Nine For Victor
Label: Les Disques Victo
Release: 2006
Format: CD
Cat. no: VICTOCD103

Song list:

  1. The Cacao Grinder (8:54)
  2. Pylorus In Repose (4:50)
  3. Julius: Tainted By Ore (2:08)
  4. Lady Vengeance (8:21)
  5. Dosed Cremant (2:26)
  6. Four Head Food (3:53)
  7. Calibrating The Anvil (3:50)
  8. Brain Soaked Hide (9:43)
  9. Tonsillar (2:17)


Album Cover The Large Taquat
Label: Sound@One/Fuck It Tapes
Release: 2007
Format: CS
Cat. no: S@1#25/FIT045

Song list:

  1. Side One (18:01)
  2. Side Two (17:47)


Album Cover Angelo Mai
Label: Sound@One
Release: 2007
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: S@1#91

Song list:

  1. Untitled (14:11)
  2. Untitled (12:18)
  3. Untitled (21:48)
  4. Untitled (12:32)


Album Cover Aftypiclipse (For Jazzfinger)
Label: Sound@One
Release: 2007
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: S@1#84

Song list:

  1. Untitled (1:44)
  2. Untitled (5:57)
  3. Untitled (0:30)
  4. Untitled (6:10)
  5. Untitled (5:02)
  6. Untitled (4:08)
  7. Untitled (1:07)
  8. Untitled (14:38)
  9. Untitled (3:50)


Album Cover Roodemas
Label: Sound@One
Release: 2007
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: S@1#93

Song list:

  1. Ascending Node (2:27)
  2. I Am Grown Phthisical (2:17)
  3. ZHRO (10:38)
  4. Saltes Or Stuff For Saltes (17:31)
  5. Descending Node (6:19)


Album Cover Clomeim
Label: Sound@One/Locust Music
Release: 2008
Format: CD-R
Cat. no: S@1#100/Locust 113

Song list:

  1. Silurist (4:06)
  2. The Coach House (7:53)
  3. Ministry Of Voices (7:11)
  4. Walking Wind (8:29)
  5. Salai Widnalas (6:44)
  6. Ialas Salandiw (5:16)
  7. Make Love, (8:40)
  8. Again (5:18)
  9. WOAIHB (3:19)
  10. La Promesse Miruco (13:50)
  11. Silurist 2 (3:17)