Noise Fest (Part 2 of 3)
Y Pants - Live at Noise Fest '81
This performance of "Beat it Down" might be one of the few Noise Fest recordings familiar to listeners well-versed in no wave apocrypha. Y Pants' electric ukelele and toy piano histrionics brought a feminist sensibility into the downtown avant rocker scene. A great reissue collecting together their 99 Records 7" and other singles is available at Midheaven Mailorder.
Chinese Puzzle - Live at Noise Fest '81
"Dadat Dat", performed by Chinese Puzzle with forked guitar stabs bifurcated as if by slide rule, sounds like it could just sneak past our ears as one of those post-rock dissertations from the early '90s. But then that would make it pre-post-rock, or just insert your own tired pre/post quip here.
Mofungo - Live at Noise Fest '81
Elliot Sharp was part of this downtown funk outfit, but I see Robert Sietsema was their bassist. I wonder if we're talking about the Village Voice's Sietsema of gilded tastebuds who convinces us to get lost in Corona, Queens and does all the legwork in finding the perfect place to get a banh mi in Little Italy. More on Mofungo at Trouser Press.
Y Pants - Live at Noise Fest '81
This performance of "Beat it Down" might be one of the few Noise Fest recordings familiar to listeners well-versed in no wave apocrypha. Y Pants' electric ukelele and toy piano histrionics brought a feminist sensibility into the downtown avant rocker scene. A great reissue collecting together their 99 Records 7" and other singles is available at Midheaven Mailorder.
Chinese Puzzle - Live at Noise Fest '81
"Dadat Dat", performed by Chinese Puzzle with forked guitar stabs bifurcated as if by slide rule, sounds like it could just sneak past our ears as one of those post-rock dissertations from the early '90s. But then that would make it pre-post-rock, or just insert your own tired pre/post quip here.
Mofungo - Live at Noise Fest '81
Elliot Sharp was part of this downtown funk outfit, but I see Robert Sietsema was their bassist. I wonder if we're talking about the Village Voice's Sietsema of gilded tastebuds who convinces us to get lost in Corona, Queens and does all the legwork in finding the perfect place to get a banh mi in Little Italy. More on Mofungo at Trouser Press.
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