Category: avant-garde
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Die Goldenen Zitronen
About Die Goldenen Zitronen are a German punk rock band from Hamburg, formed in 1984. They are considered a forerunner to the “Hamburger Schule” and are noted for their left-wing politics. Formed by Schorsch Kamerun (vocals), Ale Sexfeind (drums), Ted Gaier, and Aldo Moro, the band have released thirteen albums to date. Of the original…
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Bill Laswell
About William Otis Laswell is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner. He has been involved in thousands of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. His music draws from funk, world music, jazz, dub, and ambient styles. Albums/Songs: No significant albums found.
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John Zorn
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About John Zorn is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who “deliberately resists category”. His avant-garde and experimental approaches to composition and improvisation are inclusive of jazz, rock, Jewish music, hardcore, classical, contemporary, surf, metal, soundtrack, ambient, and world music. Rolling Stone noted that “[alt]hough Zorn has operated almost entirely outside the mainstream,…
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Lydia Lunch
About Lydia Lunch is an American singer, poet, writer, actress and self-empowerment speaker. Her career began during the 1970s New York City no wave scene as the singer and guitarist of Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. Albums/Songs: No significant albums found.
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Yoko Ono
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in 1960s, abstract, avant-garde, downtown, Electronic, Experimental, Neo-Dada, noise, performance art, Pop, RockAbout Yoko Ono is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Albums/Songs: No significant albums found.
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Laurie Anderson
About Laura Phillips “Laurie” Anderson is an American avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker whose work encompasses performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in New York City during the 1970s, focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual imagery. She achieved unexpected…
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Florian Schneider
About Florian Schneider-Esleben was a German musician. He is best known as one of the founding members and leaders of the electronic band Kraftwerk, performing his role with the band until his departure in 2008. Albums/Songs: No significant albums found.
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John Cale
About John Davies Cale is a Welsh musician, composer, and record producer who was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles across rock, drone, classical, avant-garde and electronic music. Albums/Songs: No significant albums found.
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Moondog
About Louis Thomas Hardin, known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his prolific work widely drew inspiration from jazz, classical, Native American music which he had become familiar with as a child, and Latin American music. His strongly rhythmic,…