Saturday, September 11, 2010

Glenn Branca


Glenn Branca is considered one of the most influential forces in the No Wave movement which started in NYC in the late 70s. ...essentially No Wave was a reaction to all of the synthesized pop taking over the commercial market. it was a complete destruction of pop music, replacing melody with noise and structure with abstraction.
this is an excerpt from "Bad Smells" from 1980's Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar:

"Structure", from The Ascension, 1981:

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