Artist: Smegma
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Punk-Rock
Other
Discography:
Rumblings
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Amgems
Year: 2005
Tracks: 1
Disco Queen MCD
Year: 1994
Tracks: 6
Gewalt, Hass and Wut
Year: 1993
Tracks: 4
Schrammel Oi
Year:
Tracks: 14
Nattering Nybobs Of Negativity
Year:
Tracks: 15
Smegma's roots lie in the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) scene of the mid-1970s, and all the same this long-running avant-rock collective, ar peerless of the few groups from that epoch that ar noneffervescent combat-ready today. With the musicians out of sight in arrears absurd pseudonyms, Smegma offered a strange psychedelic improvisational music, throwing in all sorts of odd instruments as well as tapes, and turntables. The group began in Pasadena, California in 1973 as a reaction to the bloated union rock of the day. They were unaware that other nearby groups had also formed to execute similar freeform experimental music. They became part of a work party of similar noise artists world Health Organization collected most nightly in the backroom of the Poo-Bah record storage in Pasadena, which in 1975 incorporate with the LAFMS. Smegma make always been a lax blackened market corporate, and former members included Amy Zonbambi, Chucko D. K. Fatts, Juk Suk Reet Meate, Dennis Duck, Cheezit-Ritz, Cheese-Bro, Dr. Id, Dr. Odd, and Reed Burn. Ace Ford Farren, world Health Organization joined the group in early 1974, introduced Smegma to half-crazed street performer and Zappa-protégé Wild Man Fisher and in deuce roger Huntington Sessions, on New Years Day of 1975 and a few months later, they recorded some tracks with Fisher on vocals. Smegma stirred to Portland, Oregon by the end of 1975 only remained in touch with the continue of the LAFMS crowd. After advent into courtyard on various LAFMS compilations, their first base LP, Glamour Girl 1941/Five Years Wasted was recorded and produced in their possess studio apartment in July 1978 and released by LAFMS the following year. They likewise released several 7" singles that same class on their take Pigface label. The following year bring them sharing a 7" with industrial pioneer Non (Boyd Rice), released by Mute. Throughout the eighties Smegma kept a scummy profile and continued to put out LPs, singles and cassettes on their own label, and now and once more gigged hot. With their world repute hard cemented, their LP Nattering Naybobs of Negativity was released by the UK pronounce Dead Mans Curve and the LP Smell the Remains by the German pronounce Dom. More albums came out in the mid-1990s on the Portland pronounce Tim/Kerr, including the LP Smegma Plays Merzbow/Merzbow Plays Smegma with Japanese noise creative person Merzbow. In the recent nineties rock and undulate source Richard Meltzer became their vocalizer, adding his verbal ramblings and sardonic learning ability to their jury-rigged thinking.
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