BANGONE ENSEMBLE: S/T (Open Mouth)
A genuine surprise from Bill Nace’s Open Mouth imprint!
BANGONE appears to have been serious scrappy outré art rock from, get this, Rutgers/New Brunswick, NJ circa mid-1970s …
Again, the one-sheet reads a little too ChatGPT #goodtobetrue, but ex-Hampshire College music scholar Byron Coley describes this as music “being done in the name of weirdo-rock … the truest expression of non-idiotic teen rebellion. It’s a great damn sound, mixing jazz, art-rock, ‘new music’ and primitivism in much the same way DC band the Muffins did during their earliest days. The sound is kind of like a child’s guide to the avant garde — from the Mothers to the Soft Machine to the Magic Band to the Arkestra and beyond, with a soupçon of sheer wise-assery stirred in for good measure.”
Really hoping/praying this LP isn’t some kind of prank, as it’s currently our favorite release on Open Mouth, raw, primitive and, dare we say, very real. Loving how it dips into jazz, rock, noise, and outsider music. Hate New Jersey but love these tracks.
And beyond the mystery of its lofi prog/jazz jamming, one lingering question remains:
How to pronounce the name of the band?
BANG ON?
BANG ONE?
Highly Recommended!!
A genuine surprise from Bill Nace’s Open Mouth imprint!
BANGONE appears to have been serious scrappy outré art rock from, get this, Rutgers/New Brunswick, NJ circa mid-1970s …
Again, the one-sheet reads a little too ChatGPT #goodtobetrue, but ex-Hampshire College music scholar Byron Coley describes this as music “being done in the name of weirdo-rock … the truest expression of non-idiotic teen rebellion. It’s a great damn sound, mixing jazz, art-rock, ‘new music’ and primitivism in much the same way DC band the Muffins did during their earliest days. The sound is kind of like a child’s guide to the avant garde — from the Mothers to the Soft Machine to the Magic Band to the Arkestra and beyond, with a soupçon of sheer wise-assery stirred in for good measure.”
Really hoping/praying this LP isn’t some kind of prank, as it’s currently our favorite release on Open Mouth, raw, primitive and, dare we say, very real. Loving how it dips into jazz, rock, noise, and outsider music. Hate New Jersey but love these tracks.
And beyond the mystery of its lofi prog/jazz jamming, one lingering question remains:
How to pronounce the name of the band?
BANG ON?
BANG ONE?
Highly Recommended!!
A genuine surprise from Bill Nace’s Open Mouth imprint!
BANGONE appears to have been serious scrappy outré art rock from, get this, Rutgers/New Brunswick, NJ circa mid-1970s …
Again, the one-sheet reads a little too ChatGPT #goodtobetrue, but ex-Hampshire College music scholar Byron Coley describes this as music “being done in the name of weirdo-rock … the truest expression of non-idiotic teen rebellion. It’s a great damn sound, mixing jazz, art-rock, ‘new music’ and primitivism in much the same way DC band the Muffins did during their earliest days. The sound is kind of like a child’s guide to the avant garde — from the Mothers to the Soft Machine to the Magic Band to the Arkestra and beyond, with a soupçon of sheer wise-assery stirred in for good measure.”
Really hoping/praying this LP isn’t some kind of prank, as it’s currently our favorite release on Open Mouth, raw, primitive and, dare we say, very real. Loving how it dips into jazz, rock, noise, and outsider music. Hate New Jersey but love these tracks.
And beyond the mystery of its lofi prog/jazz jamming, one lingering question remains:
How to pronounce the name of the band?
BANG ON?
BANG ONE?
Highly Recommended!!