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James Chance & The Contortions: James Chance (vocals, alto saxophone); Joe Bowie (vocals, trombone); Bern Nix, Tomas Doncker (guitar); Colin Wade (bass); Richard Harrison (drums); The Discolitas (background vocals).
Recorded live at 80's Club and Peppermint Lounge in 1980 and 1981. Includes liner notes by Glenn O'Brien.
Originally released as a ROIR cassette-only, these brutal, yet danceable, live tracks were recorded in New York at the Peppermint Lounge and the '80s Club in 1980 and '81. James Chance and the Contortions mixed punk, free jazz, and funk that has yet to be matched, epitomizing the seedy underbelly of the New York no wave scene of the period. Unlike certain Lydia Lunch performance art projects of the time, Chance provides a timeless attack by combining screeching alto sax and vocal rants with a relentless disco beat. Ornette Coleman and Ronald Shannon Jackson guitarist Bern Nix and trombonist Joseph Bowie (brother of Lester) bring jazz credentials to this late edition of the Contortions while the background vocals of the Discolitas provide the sleazy stage pageantry Chance championed. The sound quality is not great, but that only adds to the original highly charged haze under which it was made. Three of the seven tracks are covers, "That Old Black Magic" and two from James Brown, "I Got You" and "King Heroin." ~ Al Campbell
Originally released on ROIR as LIVE IN NEW YORK in 1981.
All tracks are digitally remastered.
From 1981;Live In New York
Personnel: James Chance (vocals, alto saxophone); Bern Nix (guitar); Joseph Bowie (trombone, background vocals); Richard Harrison (drums).
Audio Mixer: James Chance.
Recording information: The 80's, New York City NY (1980-1981); The Peppermint Club, New York City NY (1980-1981).
Photographer: Roberta Bayley.The Wire (12/00, p.56) - "...The angular, pixilated funk and astringent aggro jazz surrounds Chance's knowing honky jive is anything but art-schtick..."
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